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The Ventricles of the Brain (Ross & Wilson) You can always count on the journal Medical Hypotheses (published by Elsevier) for a good laugh. The Editor-in-Chief ( Bruce G. Charlton ) accepts all sorts of completely speculative crackpot articles. Who can forget the classic, Is there ...
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Internet addiction is a murky and controversial disorder
that is the subject of intense debate over whether...
it should be included in the new DSM-V . Here are the proposed diagnostic criteria as developed by Dr. Kimberly Young : Do you feel ...
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Does "Internet Addiction" Really Shrink Your Brain?
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Contour Drawing Rating Scale ( Thompson & Gray,
1995 ) - established as a reliable and valid...
measure of body size perception. Anorexia nervosa , an obsessive and unrelenting quest for thinness, is one of the most deadly psychiatric disorders. ...
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The Extrastriate Body Area and Visual Distortions in ...
The Machinist , a 2004 film directed by Brad Anderson , features the emaciated skeleton of Christian Bale as a haunted character named Trevor Reznik. He suffers from chronic insomnia ("haven't slept in a year" [which is impossible] ), a cleanliness obsession that compels him to scrub his ...
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I've opened up these scars I'll make you face this I pulled myself so far I'll make you, face, this, now! --- Linkin Park Deliberate self-harm, or self-injury, is becoming increasingly recognized as a problem affecting adolescents and young adults. Rates are difficult to determine, ...
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Taken from Fig. 1 ( Bewernick et al., 2009 ). Hamilton Depression Rating Scale ( PDF) over time. Two and a half years ago, The Neurocritic wrote about the very early results of deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the nucleus accumbens for severe, refractory depression. You can read about the ...
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"I feel your pain" Empathy for another person's pain is a hot topic of study in the glamorous field of social cognitive neuroscience. The capacity for empathy supposedly involves mirror neurons , those media darlings of The Young, [The Not-So-Young], and The Neuro: A mirror neuron is a ...
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You've heard of Neuromarketing , which measures the
neural activity of consumers (via fMRI or EEG) in...
response to various products or advertisements. Now, get ready for Genomarketing! The Neuroethics & Law Blog has alerted us to a recent paper ...
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Genomarketing!
"A New Outlook" is a multimedia installation by Bree Yenalavitch at... ... Project Room G3 , an artist run project space found by Sojung Kwon started April 2009, that focuses on work which has a performative, temporal, and non-classical aesthetic. It is located at Angels Gate Cultural Center ...
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Sarah Sze Things Fall Apart 2001 "010101: Art in Technological Times" Sarah Sze is a contemporary visual artist (and winner of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 ) who creates unique, site-specific sculptures and installations which make use of ordinary technological and scientific objects. ...
