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Integration in Neuroscience: A Core Problem – Part 4: A Language for Mind and...
How do we manage the reality of a different language of the mind and brain? This is more than just semantics as the two languages have been explored in fundamentally different ways and have resulted...
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Doing Science Using Open Data – Part 6: Modelling Populations
In this 6th part of the series on using open data for science I’ve take a slight diversion to look at populations and the issue of sampling. This was prompted by a look at the UK mid-2011 Census data...
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New Video on the Hippocampus
I’ve just uploaded a creative commons video of the Hippocampus. The data was derived from the Japanese Life Science Database and the video was originally sourced from Wikimedia Commmons and i’ve added...
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Passage of the UK Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill News Roundup: November...
There is an update on the passage of the UK Mental Health (Discrimination) Bill in the House of Commons. One research group in Scotland is piloting a drama based program which portrays the experience...
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A Failed Visual Illusion Experiment but Can We Learn Anything From It?
I was just experimenting in making visual illusions but my first efforts failed. I was looking at this cognitive science website set up by Dutch PhD student Sebastiaan Mathôt when I came across the...
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Potential Benefits of Increased Mental Activity and #50 Online Tools for...
Treatment of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder was associated with a reduction in crime rates in this study (see @ProfLAppleby). Time covers the treatment of an excessive sleep disorder...
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Working with Pubmed – Part 2: Favoriting Abstracts
PubMed is a large database of biomedical citations maintained by the US government. PubMed is globally accessible and aids clinicians and biomedical researchers around the world with their scientific...
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Integration in Neuroscience: A Core Problem – Part 5: A Three Structure Model
This series investigates the problem of integration in Neuroscience. The essence of this problem is that there is a clearly understood division of mind and brain. This division manifests in...
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A Mayan Apocalypse on the 21st of December 2012 – Is this a Cultural...
Introduction A popular topic for discussion at the moment is the alleged ancient Mayan prediction of a significant event occurring on the 21st December 2012 and more specifically the end of the...
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Health Outcomes Associated with End of the World Predictions
Introduction The recent date of 21st December 2012 was associated with a number of end of the world predictions. End of the world predictions have occurred throughout history with various associations....
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Mapping Semantic Space in the Brain
Alex Huth Gives an Overview of the fMRI Study The Gallant Lab at University of California, Berkeley have produced another remarkable fMRI paper. In this paper the research team looked at mapping...
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Controversy Over The Brain’s Response to Shopping Coupons News Roundup:...
Vaughan Bell looks at the role of psychologists in developing commercial chocolates. Tom Stafford has written a piece on transient overeating where he discusses the brain’s reward circuits. John Hawks...
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Integration in Neuroscience: A Core Problem – Part 6: Reflection on the Three...
In Part 5 of the series we looked at a three structure model of conscious experience, neural activity and language. These three ‘structures’ are important components of any detailed discussion of the...
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Doing Science Using Open Data – Part 7: Modelling Populations 2
In the third part in this series I looked at the UK mid-2011 Census and obtained the data below which represents the summed male and female figures for the UK population from ages 16 through to 44....
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Reframing Education in the Digital Age
In this TedX talk at the University of California, Los Angeles, with a PhD in Education Policy, Dr Preston talks about his experience in returning to teaching at high school. He looks at the issues of...
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Looking Back at 2012: News Roundup 2012
Looking Back at 2012 The Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Review 2012 features the RCPsych Award winners as well as a summary of the good work that the College has done over the past year. There...
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News Roundup 2012
Welcome to another annual roundup of the TAWOP news as 2012 draws to a close. The roundup is organised into links to reviews of the news in 2012, clinical news, neuroscience news, positive Psychiatry,...
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Working with Pubmed – Part 3: Bibliography (Updated)
Video Demonstration of My Bibliography Feature PubMed is a large database of citations maintained by the US National Library of Medicine. You can set up an account with NCBI which I would recommend if...
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Psychotherapy Meta-analysis Looks At Factors Influencing Treatment Outcome...
The effect of trauma/PTSD in people with Schizophrenia was investigated in this study (n=292). The researchers didn’t find evidence of cognitive impairment (using a neuropsychological test battery)....
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Brodmann Area 51 – The Prepiriform Area
Dr Korbinian Brodmann, German Neurologist, Frontpiece of ‘Localisation in the Cerebral Cortex’, 1909, Public Domain* In the nineteenth century the eminent German Neurologist Dr Korbinian Brodmann...
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