science
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No New Neurons? No Problem!
This answer was written in response to the following Quora question: New research has found no neurogenesis in human adults, could this mean there is none or could it mean that neural stem cells are undetectable with the used techniques? What are your thoughts on this? It’s good that you’re thinking of such things, since…
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“The first rule of intelligence: Don’t talk about your intelligence”
That line is from an article in The Atlantic about how poor people are at self-assessment: People Don’t Actually Know Themselves Very Well “The first rule of intelligence: Don’t talk about your intelligence. It’s something you prove, not something you claim. As comedian Patton Oswalt quipped about humor, the only person who goes around saying…
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Are mental disorders the same as brain disorders? Maybe not!
I am currently reading an excellent paper that will be published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences soon. It raises some very important issues with popular conceptions of mental illness. Brain disorders? Not really… Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research These two figures capture some of the key points: Here is the abstract: “In…
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“Authentic bio-gibberish”
It turns out that one of the 2017 Nobel Laureates is quite a character! “Jeffrey Hall, a retired professor at Brandeis University, shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries elucidating how our internal body clock works. He was honored along with Michael Young and his close collaborator Michael Roshbash. Hall said in an…