{"id":570967,"date":"2010-05-19T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.mindhacks.com:\/\/9421eee332f890eb75d625f422552a9d"},"modified":"2010-05-19T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T08:00:00","slug":"neurology-daze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570967","title":{"rendered":"Neurology daze"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest Neuropod<\/i> podcast<\/A> tackles deep brain stimulation, blast injuries in soldiers, fibre-tracking brain scans and a group of hungover neurologists on an early morning run, in coverage from the recent American Academy of Neurology conference<\/a>. In fact, it’s one of the best Nature Neuroscience podcasts I’ve heard in ages.<\/p>\n

There’s also a fascinating bit about the history of phrenology by neurologist Daniel Schneider. Phrenology<\/a> was the curious 19th practice of ‘reading bumps’ on the head to divine someone’s character based on the flawed idea that differences in brain structure would affect skull growth.<\/p>\n

Schneider has searched medical and non-medical publications of the time and found, contrary to the belief that the practice was simply a fashion among the public, that the medical profession was more approving of the idea than the general populace.<\/p>\n

As the practice was started by medical men it seemed respectable and gave a tool to help explain some scientific questions of the time, even if it didn’t live up to its promises.<\/p>\n

As an aside, I note from the scientific programme of the meeting that neuropsychologist Brenda Milner<\/a> was presenting<\/a> some of her latest work on the recently departed amnesic patient HM.<\/p>\n

It was pointed out to me that Milner is 92. Respect to that.<\/p>\n

\nLink<\/a> to Neuropod<\/i> homepage.
\nmp3<\/a> of this podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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