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Book Review: The Culture of Insomnia
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Parkes (2009) Book Review: The Culture of Insomnia. / Brain / doi:10.1093/brain/awp201 /
Prelingually profoundly deaf schizophrenic patients who h...
from AbnerRavenwood in Research, Health & Medicine
Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1999 Jun;99(6):453-9. / du Feu M, McKenna PJ. / OBJECTIVE: The aims of the study were to examine claims that profoundly deaf schizophrenic patients report auditory hallucinations, and to evaluate proposed explanations that such patients are really describing other symptoms...
A new classification of necrophilia
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J Forensic Leg Med. 2009 Aug;16(6):316-20. / Aggrawal A / Necrophilia is a paraphilia whereby the perpetrator gets sexual pleasure in having sex with the dead. Most jurisdictions and nations have laws against this practice. Necrophilia exists in many variations, and some authors have attempted ...
Cognitive control in media multitaskers
from AbnerRavenwood in Research, Science
Published online before print August 24, 2009, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0903620106 / Eyal Ophir, Clifford Nass, Anthony D. Wagner / Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A ...
Can sulci protect the brain from traumatic injury?
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J Biomech. 2009 Aug 11. [Epub ahead of print] / Ho J, Kleiven S. / The influence of sulci in dynamic finite element simulations of the human head has been investigated. First, a detailed 3D FE model was constructed based on an MRI scan of a human head. A second model with a smoothed brain surfa...
Epilepsy and religious experiences: Voodoo possession
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Epilepsia. 1999 Feb;40(2):239-41. / Carrazana E, DeToledo J, Tatum W, Rivas-Vasquez R, Rey G, Wheeler S. / Epileptic seizures have a historical association with religion, primarily through the concept of spirit possession. Five cases where epileptic seizures were initially attributed to Voodoo ...
Using Neural Networks to Model the Behavior and Decisions...
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J Gambl Stud. 2009 Jul 11. [Epub ahead of print] / Chan VK. / This article describes the use of neural networks (a type of artificial intelligence) and an empirical data sample of, inter alia, the amounts of bets laid and the winnings/losses made in successive games by a number of cyber-gambler...
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" more important conclusion is that the influence of a gambler's skills, strategies, and personality on his/her successive bet amounts and c...
Criminal Profiling as a Plotting Activity Based on Abduct...
from AbnerRavenwood in Research, Law
Verde A, Nurra A. / Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2009 Jun 26. [Epub ahead of print] / In this article the authors analyze the nature and aims of criminal profiling from a theoretical point of view. The need to become increasingly "scientific" has given rise to the modern approaches of pro...
Seeing the phantom: A functional magnetic resonance imagi...
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Ann Neurol. 2009 Mar 20;65(6):698-705. / Khateb A, Simon SR, Dieguez S, Lazeyras F, Momjian-Mayor I, Blanke O, Landis T, Pegna AJ, Annoni JM. / OBJECTIVE: Supernumerary phantom limb (SPL) is a rare neurological manifestation where patients with a severe stroke-induced sensorimotor deficit exper...
Parent-investigators: a dilemma
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Resnik DB. / JAMA. 2009 May 27;301(20):2159-61. /
I know where you are secretly attending! The topography o...
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Vision Res. 2009 May;49(10):1037-44. / Datta R, DeYoe EA. / Previous studies have described the topography of attention-related activation in retinotopic visual cortex for an attended target at one or a few locations within the subject's field of view. However a complete description for all loc...
Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern ...
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Powell A, Shennan S, Thomas MG. / Science. 2009 Jun 5;324(5932):1298-301. / The origins of modern human behavior are marked by increased symbolic and technological complexity in the archaeological record. In western Eurasia this transition, the Upper Paleolithic, occurred about 45,000 years ago...
Self shooting of a phantom head
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Br J Psychiatry. 1984 Aug;145:193-4. / Ames D
The time-emotion paradox
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Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Jul 12;364(1525):1943-53. / Droit-Volet S, Gil S. / The present manuscript discusses the time-emotion paradox in time psychology: although humans are able to accurately estimate time as if they possess a specific mechanism that allows them to measure tim...
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