Neuroscience From Underground

Skeptical Science
With a
Humanistic Touch
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Big Ideas in Psychology and Neuroscience

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Neuroscience + Thanksgiving

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More about tryptophan and happiness - thanksgiving turkey dinner edition.

https://t.co/R5srZfw1lw via @ConversationUS

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@HealthyFellow @depressionnote @DepressionSB @NeuroscienceNew @PsychiatryDaily Chief side effect is 'feeling strange or loopy'?

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@_CoryNiday Thank you sir, your reads mean a lot

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Moral of the story: Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a hero, Camillo Golgi was a bit slippery (according, mostly, to Cajal).

Enduring lessons from early 20th-century neuroscience (The Legend of Santiago Ramon Y Cajal) https://t.co/zwFdus19n0

#Neuroscience #Science #sciencetwitter

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Clinical #Psychology Essay Contest extended to December first (3 weeks away!)

$250 in prizes.

https://t.co/yMyHB6BXqg

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According to @lomaianatalia, mainstream psychiatric research has had an excessive emphasis on biology, while neglecting important social contributors to mental illness.
https://t.co/csULry6EUq

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Essay contest entries are due this Sunday, Nov 3.

Submit your thoughts for a chance to win $250 in prizes!

Topic: Beyond the DSM - what is the future of #psychiatry?”

https://t.co/zy8y10lu8c
#writing #bloggerswanted #blog #psychological #ContestAlert

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"Based on more recent studies, the existing empirical and scientific evidence to support Jung’s idea [of the #collectiveunsconsious] could be divided into categories presented below..." #Psychoanalysis #CarlJung
https://t.co/pKgfXEpC3P

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"Does, as skeptics suggest, the secularization of mindfulness represent a Faustian bargain that may encourage rather than subvert the basest aspects of our nature?"

https://t.co/TTNXJnAPXa

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85% of researchers in Myanmar are women (data from 2002). Not that this isn't interesting, or historic justice, but there has to be sample size issues...

https://t.co/ZVzG6HiBcu

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Our fall essay contest closes in two weeks (October 31) Find more info at https://t.co/zy8y10lu8c. Hope to hear from you!

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@Sam7924 Hi Samantha, I get what you're saying about preparing people. But when I find something that doesn't abide by traditional prescriptive grammar, but what they're saying is still clear, and it's not an English class, I feel weird taking points off.

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One of Dostoevsky’s characters, Prince Myshkin, had epilepsy, and was treated with ‘cold water and gymnastics’. Time to bring cold-water-gymnastics therapy back? #Dostoevsky #epilepsy

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Fiber supplements don't have much of an impact on weight-loss of appetite.

#weightloss #health #supplements #nutrition
https://t.co/sL2zOmA4jr

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@URCreativeChord Thank you so much! I've had a little bit of success myself, but yeah I agree it's not all-powerful.

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Mindfulness has migrated from eastern philosophy into the medical community as a stress-reducing, blood-pressure-normalizing, weight-loss-promoting, health panacea. An article on whether mindfulness promote sleep #Psychology #Sleep https://t.co/T5fW5iv5Of

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@rjmangus Can't say I'm familiar with any research, would love to hear your thoughts though.

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Do scientists have to use the word 'predicted' instead of 'correlated'? Makes it much harder to find research that's actually predicting future-stuff.

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So happy to find another gut-brain-axis critic!

@KBHooks https://t.co/Hdf6rhlYuU