Charles G. Gross Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 22, Issue 10, 1 October 1999, Pages 429-431 Hieronymus Bosch and other early Renaissance artists depicted ‘stone operations’ in which stones were supposedly surgically removed from the head as a treatment for mental illness. These works have usually been interpreted either as portraying a contemporary practice of medical charlatans or as an...

The International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 2008 Jan;56(1):99-116. Raz A. Attention binds psychology to the techniques of neuroscience and exemplifies the links between brain and behavior. Associated with attentional networks, at least 3 brain modules govern control processes by drawing on disparate functional neuroanatomy, neuromodulators, and psychological substrate...

Ellinwood EH Jr, Sudilovsky A, Nelson LM American Journal of Psychiatry, 130, 1088-1093. October 1973 A parallel is drawn between several behavioral constellations observed in the evolution of the human amphetamine psychosis and the motor-postural-attitudinal manifestations induced in animals by chronic amphetamine intoxication. On the basis of the results reported. a triple-layered model...

Large M, Smith G, Swinson N, Shaw J, Nielssen O. British Journal of Psychiatry. 2008 Aug;193(2):130-3. BACKGROUND: It has been stated that rates of homicide due to mental disorder are constant over time. AIMS: To examine whether there were changes in the rates of homicide due to mental disorder over time, and whether changes in these rates were associated with changes in the rates of ot...

Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, August 11, 2008, doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802686105 Jessica L. Tracy David Matsumoto The present research examined whether the recognizable nonverbal expressions associated with pride and shame may be biologically innate behavioral responses to success and failure. Specifically, we tested whether sighted, blind, and congenitally blind individu...

Hughes PH, Baldwin DC Jr, Sheehan DV, Conard S, Storr CL Am J Psychiatry. 1992 Oct;149(10):1348-54 OBJECTIVE: This study compares substance use by medical specialty among resident physicians. METHOD: The authors estimated the prevalence of substance use of 11 medical specialties from a national sample of 1,754 U.S. resident physicians. RESULTS: Emergency medicine and psychiatry residents ...

Melissa Saenz and Christof Koch Current Biology,Volume 18, Issue 15, 5 August 2008, Pages R650-R651 Synesthesia is a benign neurological condition in humans characterized by involuntary cross-activation of the senses, and estimated to affect at least 1% of the population. Multiple forms of synesthesia exist, including distinct visual, tactile or gustatory perceptions which are automatical...

Penfield W, Evans J (1935) The Frontal Lobe in Man: A Clinical Study of Maximum Removals. Brain, 58, 115-133. Three neurosurgery case studies of frontal lobe surgery by Wilder Penfield and Joseph Evans from 1935. One reason the article is notable is because one of the cases is Penfield's sister.

Nicola S. Gray, Malcolm J. MacCulloch, Jennifer Smith, Mark Morris and Robert J. Snowden Nature 423, 497-498 (29 May 2003) Psychopathic murderers are often portrayed as cold-blooded, emotionless and lacking in remorse, but they are also adept at lying and at feigning the emotions in which they are deficient. Here we adapt a test known as the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which was prev...