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Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognition, and Learning

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“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.”

— Erich Fromm

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@64s Down for me still at 10:38 am march 31

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

The civil servants at CDC, NIH, and FDA are invaluable to our national health, emergency response, and economy, both for their dedicated efforts and deep experience.

Their jobs are worth far more than $25K. Don't take the buyout.

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@JoyceCarolOates Hello from Canada I see your tweets loud and clear- but it’s probably because I made a separate twitter (x?) list with only you and a few other select folks

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@kinza___56 Happy birthday, I see you! 🤪👩‍🦼👑

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@CDInewsletter Can you make one for dividends only instead of salary?

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@ATCO Montreal?

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🚨#BREAKING: Search results for ‘Why do my eyes hurt?’ and ‘My eyes hurt’ have exploded after the total solar eclipse occurred

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Newly identified genes for depression may lead to new treatments

https://t.co/2jLALSrJT6

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For example, panic causes many physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, pounding heartbeat, sweating, and nausea, whereas #anxiety does not.

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Scientists @salkinstitute uncover key brain pathway mediating panic disorder symptoms.

https://t.co/61CUN975WG

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Despite the fact that #PanicDisorder is classified as an anxiety disorder, there are significant differences between the two.

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Individuals with this mutation are half as likely to develop the disease as those who do not carry it. The variant form of the protein is relatively rare and is found primarily in people of European descent.

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Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson's disease and offers hope for new therapies.

https://t.co/JqDcZXNvyp

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Growth hormone found to influence regulation of anxiety via somatostatin neurons.

https://t.co/10htmI4c9a

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However, according to the co-authors, this explanation fails to take into account that as information is encoded or recalled, these regions may in fact, share a common code in the brain.

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New coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory identified

https://t.co/4T8ZpoYeUG

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Prior to this work, the classic understanding of brain organization was that perceptual regions of the brain represent the world "as it is," with the brain's visual cortex representing the external world based on how light falls on the retina, "retinotopically."

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New study found no scientific evidence for Chapman's premise that people who choose partners that speak their love language, or learn to speak it, will have more successful relationships. #lovelanguages

https://t.co/01eNOSl7j3

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Enlarged spaces in infant brains linked to higher risk of autism, sleep problems, @UNC researchers find.

https://t.co/iSebvbgPCi