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<\/p>\nQuick links from the past week in mind and brain news:<\/p>\n
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You could not ask for a better combination. Coverage of the mirror movement mutation in a piece<\/a> from Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/i> and an article<\/a> on Neurophilosophy<\/i>.<\/p>\n The Independent<\/i> covers the frankly mind-bending news that David Cronenberg is to make a film<\/a> on the relationship between Freud and Jung with Keira Knightley playing Jung’s lover. I would have gone for Bruckheimer for director myself.<\/p>\n Fantastic research on whether it is best to knap<\/a> at your desk or in bed covered by the BPS Research Digest<\/i>. Why can’t we have more research like this? An evidence-based approach on the best day to chuck a sickie is sorely needed.<\/p>\n The Psychologist<\/i> has an excellent article on the ‘impostor syndrome<\/a>‘ with some fantastic detective work which sheds some new light on the idea.<\/p>\n That’s it. The Matrix is here<\/a>. Mind boggling video from BoingBoing<\/i>. Red pills at the ready.<\/p>\n New Jersey Magazine<\/i> reporter Mara Altman volunteers for a study on female orgasm<\/a> in the brain scanner.<\/p>\n There’s coverage of an odd decision by the Minnesota Supreme Court that bong water<\/a> should considered an illegal substance over at the excellent Addiction Inbox<\/i>.<\/p>\n New Scientist<\/i> has an interview<\/a> with Anil Seth, director of the new Sackler Centre<\/a> for Consciousness Science.<\/p>\n There’s an awesome and in-depth post on how three studies now refute the presence<\/a> of the XMRV virus in patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) at Laika’s MedLibLog<\/i>. See a previous<\/a> Mind Hacks post for background on this controversial issue.<\/p>\n NPR<\/i> has a fantastic brief segment on the discovery of laughing gas<\/A> and why its pain killing properties were dismissed as unhelpful.<\/p>\n Should results from studies on suicide<\/a> be kept out of the media to avoid prompting suicides? asks science writer Mun Keat Looi<\/i>.<\/p>\n PBS<\/i> has what looks like an awesome documentary on behavioural economics that’s only available \nhttp:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/money\/”>online<\/A> to people in the States. If it was to *cough* appear *cough* as a torrent though it would just be swell.<\/p>\n Dating by blood type<\/a> in Japan is covered by BBC News<\/i>. My blood was tested for the first time in my life the other week. It got an A+. I was very proud.<\/p>\n Neuroanthropology<\/i> has an excellent essay about the attraction of negative news stories and the psychology of media fear-mongering<\/a>.<\/p>\n What Happened When I Went Undercover<\/a> at a Christian Gay-to-Straight Conversion Camp. A piece on AlterNet<\/i>.<\/p>\n The Smithsonian Magazine<\/i> have an archive of all their psychology<\/a> and brain<\/a> articles.<\/p>\n Darryl Cunningham’s awesome Psychiatric Tales graphic novel is out, details<\/a> on his blog.<\/p>\n Wired<\/i> notes that the US military has put out a tender for for a system to train soldiers based on their neural and cognitive responses<\/a>.<\/p>\n Video from BBC News<\/i> about a private clinic offering money to addicts to be sterilised<\/a> – just arrived in the UK. Really quite screwed up.<\/p>\n BBC News<\/i> quotes<\/a> Dr Penelope Leach who says leaving babies to cry ‘harms their brains’. Talking shit apparently not a danger.<\/p>\n If you think she might have been taken out of context, here<\/a> she is on YouTube hawking the same nonsense. ‘High cortisol’ apparently the danger. In which case, breast feeding would<\/a> be ‘harming’ their brains too! No wonder my head hurts.<\/p>\n Salon<\/i> has a review<\/a> of a book on the neuropsychology of wisdom. Interesting, because wisdom is a strangely neglected topic in psychology.<\/p>\n Why Humans Have Sex. A podcast<\/a> for the The New York Academy of Sciences<\/i> oddly fails to mention wanting to check out people’s bookshelves. Maybe that’s just me?<\/p>\n Popular Science<\/i> has a gallery of vintage robots<\/a>. Old and rusty. As they should be.<\/p>\n Have you seen the Wiring the Brain<\/i> blog<\/a>? Bloody fantastic.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/i> publishes several letters<\/A> responding to their recent article<\/a> on standards in the US military’s war trauma units.<\/p>\n The Top 25<\/a> Psychiatric Prescriptions for 2009 are over at PsychCentral<\/i>. Top 10 almost all anxiety and depression drugs. The non-specific malaise golden goose cashes in.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/i> has an intelligent piece by prominent psychiatrist Dan Carlat on the swing of the medication<\/a> pendulum in American psychiatry.<\/p>\n