consciousness

Where you know that you know.  (Dana Foundation)

Nothing to declare.  (Dana Foundation)

Narrowing the search for the correlates of consciousness.  (The Dana Foundation)

The color of consciousness.  (The Dana Foundation)

Interview with Christof Koch.  (The Dana Foundation)

perception

Seized by ecstasy.  (Dana Foundation)

New interest in interoception.  (Dana Foundation)

A prefrontal “mind’s eye.”  (Dana Foundation)

Placebo effect reaches into spine.  (Dana Foundation)

The sounds of silent movies.  (Nature)

Rewired for sight and sound.  (Nature)

Major cause of tone-deafness… Read the rest

methods

Modeling diseases in a dish.  (Brainwork – pdf)

Nano-motion pictures.  (HHMI Bulletin)

Standard model.  (Nature)

neurodegeneration

Alzheimer’s vaccines (Nature Outlook)

The littlest prion (Nature Outlook)

The oligomer theory of neurodegeneration. (Dana Foundation)

Interview with Chester Mathis, co-inventor of PIB-PET tracer.  (Dana Foundation)

Secrets of the shaking palsy.  (Nature Outlook)

Seeking the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s.  (Dana… Read the rest

genetics and epigenetics

New survey of “imprinted” genes.  (HHMI News)

Epigenetic factor discovered.  (HHMI Bulletin)

Genetics of DNA-repair.  (HHMI Bulletin)

psychiatry

Meditation — Still Many Unknowns.  (Dana Foundation)

Your brain on courage.  (Dana Foundation)

Prefrontal cortex gets a grip on anxiety.  (Dana Foundation)

DISC1 protein linked to multiple psychiatric disorders.  (Dana Foundation)

The 65 Faces of Donna.  (The Independent on Sunday… Read the rest

cancer

Cancer stem cells can’t stand the heat.  (HHMI News)

Finding links genetics and epigenetics of cancer.  (HHMI News)

Virus that attacks brain cancer is headed for clinical trials.  (Dana Foundation)

Targeting tumor metabolism.  (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

media

Watching TV.  (Nature)

addiction

Controlling your mind with the help of fMRI.  (Dana Foundation)

How a gene variant keeps smokers hooked.  (Dana Foundation)

Chronic binge-drinking kills neural stem cells.  (Dana Foundation)

Rethinking rehab.  (Nature)

Overeating may blunt brain’s reward circuitry.  (Dana Foundation)

proteins

The littlest prion (Nature Outlook)

The dark side of proteins.  (Nature)

pharma

Aiming at oligomers.  (Dana Foundation)

Targeting tumor metabolism.  (Nature Reviews Drug Discovery)

Drugs that block cannabinoid receptors are problematic.  (Dana Foundation)

Calmed by cannabinoids.  (Dana Foundation)

The magic bullet that burst the bubble.  (New Scientist)

dopamine

Rethinking reward models.  (Dana Foundation)

What does dopamine do anyway? (Dana Foundation)

Rethinking rehab.  (Nature)

Dopamine and personality.  (Dana Foundation)

Dopamine and anxiety.  (Dana Foundation)

The yin and yang of pain and pleasure.  (Dana Foundation)

epilepsy

New clues to epileptic sudden death syndrome.  (Dana Foundation)

Seized by ecstasy.  (Dana Foundation)

memory

Chronic binge-drinking kills neural stem cells.  (Dana Foundation)

Nothing to declare.  (Dana Foundation)

Erasing fear memories without drugs.  (Dana Foundation)

Memory neurons follow the beat.  (Dana Foundation)

Profile of Eric Kandel and Pouya Jamshidi.  (HHMI Bulletin)

sleep

Chronic sleep loss takes its own toll.  (Dana Foundation)

Early birds and night owls.  (Dana Foundation)

A new pill for jet lag.  (Dana Foundation)

What’s sleep good for, anyway? (Dana Foundation)

brain to machine

Controlling your mind with the help of fMRI.  (Dana Foundation)

Engineering the sense of touch.  (Dana Foundation)

Neural implant aims to restore speech to the paralyzed.  (Dana Foundation)

physics

Existential Crisis!  Many-Worlds Theory Confirmed! (web essay)

The Creative Type (web essay)

books

Forever Young: Science and the Search for Immortality.   Bloomsbury (London) 1998.

Remote Viewers: the Secret History of America’s Psychic Spies.  Dell (New York) 1997.

Dark White: Aliens, Abductions and the UFO Obsession.  Hamish Hamilton (London) 1994.

Round in Circles.   Hamish… Read the rest