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- May 20, 2012
- 11:01 PM
- 21 views
Researchers Demonstrate The First Brain Controlled Robotic Arm
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
esearchers have demonstrated the first 3D control of a robotic arm from electrodes implanted directly in the brain. This technology has been tested before in monkeys but this is the first time the technology has been successfully trialled in humans. Until now, human brain computer interfaces (BCI) have been limited to two dimensions. ... Read more »
Hochberg, L., Bacher, D., Jarosiewicz, B., Masse, N., Simeral, J., Vogel, J., Haddadin, S., Liu, J., Cash, S., van der Smagt, P.... (2012) Reach and grasp by people with tetraplegia using a neurally controlled robotic arm. Nature, 485(7398), 372-375. DOI: 10.1038/nature11076
- April 4, 2012
- 11:20 AM
- 182 views
The Daily Mail incorrectly correct article describing cannabis-schizophrenia research
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
The Daily Mail have issued a "correction" repeating their belief that just one cannabis joint can cause schizophrenia.... Read more »
Kucewicz MT, Tricklebank MD, Bogacz R, & Jones MW. (2011) Dysfunctional prefrontal cortical network activity and interactions following cannabinoid receptor activation. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 31(43), 15560-8. PMID: 22031901
- April 3, 2012
- 07:17 AM
- 113 views
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality: Why Britain Has Spent The Past Week Talking About Pasties & An Ingenious New Method for Sifting Through Neuroscience Research
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A look at Parkinson’s law of Triviality and a new web-app that links papers semantically.... Read more »
Voytek, B. Voytek, J. (2012) Semi-automated Hypothesis Generation (Preprint). Behavioral/Systems/Cognitive. info:/
- March 22, 2012
- 09:37 AM
- 262 views
"Corporate Psychopathy" or old-fashioned witch hunt?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Did anti-depressants play a role in the financial crisis? Are bankers more likely to be psychopaths? Do financial institutions behave in the same way as psychopaths?... Read more »
Babiak, P., Neumann, C., & Hare, R. (2010) Corporate psychopathy: Talking the walk. Behavioral Sciences . DOI: 10.1002/bsl.925
Price J, Cole V, & Goodwin GM. (2009) Emotional side-effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: qualitative study. The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science, 195(3), 211-7. PMID: 19721109
- March 20, 2012
- 11:37 AM
- 197 views
The Amazing Story of Alexander Shulgin: The chemist who discovered hundreds of psychedelics from his humble garden shed
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A beautiful new film tells the story of Alexander Shulgin, the chemist who re-discovered MDMA (after it was synthesised and abandoned by Merck) and went on to discover hundreds of psychedelic drugs such as the 2C*family. He is famous not only for independently discovering and developing so many psychedelics but for testing them extensively on himself and for writing the core textbooks of the psychedelic literature, PiHKAL (‘Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved’) and TiHKAL (‘Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved).... Read more »
Benzenhöfer U, & Passie T. (2010) Rediscovering MDMA (ecstasy): the role of the American chemist Alexander T. Shulgin. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 105(8), 1355-61. PMID: 20653618
- March 19, 2012
- 01:52 PM
- 160 views
The Great Drugs Debate
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
The President of Colombia, Former President of Mexico and current and former UN and US drug tzars come together with academics and public figures to debate to war on drugs... Read more »
Jahangir, A. Fuentes, C. Gaviria, C. Zedillo, E. Cardoso, F. Papandreou, G. Shultz, G. Solana, J. Whitehead, J. Annan, K. Arbour, L. Cattaui, M. Llosa, M. Caspers-Merk,M. Kazatchkine,M. Volcker, P. Branson, R. Dreifuss, R. Stoltenberg, T. (2011) War On Drugs. Report Of The Global Commission On Drug Policy. info:/
HUGHES, C., & STEVENS, A. (2012) A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and Alcohol Review, 31(1), 101-113. DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-3362.2011.00383.x
- March 15, 2012
- 05:55 AM
- 259 views
Is Your Newspaper Making You Ignorant?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Why does there appear to be such a strong correlation between newspaper circulation and bullshit?... Read more »
Frankfurt, H. (2005) On Bullshit. Princeton University Press. info:other/
Cooper, B., Lee, W., Goldacre, B., & Sanders, T. (2011) The quality of the evidence for dietary advice given in UK national newspapers. Public Understanding of Science. DOI: 10.1177/0963662511401782
- March 9, 2012
- 04:46 AM
- 322 views
A Yale Professor's Rampage on PLoS and a Group That Failed To Replicate His Research
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
John Bargh, a Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University has written a blog post that’s currently receiving a thorough dressing down by the academic community. The title of the blog post, “Nothing in Their Heads” is a scathing ad-hom attack on a research group that failed to replicate his research. The opening gambit is an attack on, well the entire academic community.... Read more »
Doyen S, Klein O, Pichon CL, & Cleeremans A. (2012) Behavioral priming: it's all in the mind, but whose mind?. PloS one, 7(1). PMID: 22279526
Bargh, J. Chen, M. Burrows, L. (1996) Automaticity of Social Behaviour: Direct Effects of Trait Construct and Stereotype Activation on Action. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. info:/http://www.yale.edu/acmelab/articles/bargh_chen_burrows_1996.pdf
- March 6, 2012
- 09:10 AM
- 228 views
The statistical fallacy that trips up everyone from journalists to gynecologists
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
How most gynecologists that were given a simple stats problem relating to their work gave the wrong answer, why the problem appears in even the most respectable of publications and how the same fallacy led to 13,000 unnecessary abortions.... Read more »
Gigerenzer, G., Gaissmaier, W., Kurz-Milcke, E., Schwartz, L., & Woloshin, S. (2007) Helping Doctors and Patients Make Sense of Health Statistics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 8(2), 53-96. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6053.2008.00033.x
- February 17, 2012
- 10:46 AM
- 428 views
A Scientist’s Worst Nightmare
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A detailed analysis of a new infographic dealing with the issue of falsification in scientific research.... Read more »
Ioannidis, J. (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Medicine, 2(8). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
Moonesinghe, R., Khoury, M., & Janssens, A. (2007) Most Published Research Findings Are False—But a Little Replication Goes a Long Way. PLoS Medicine, 4(2). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0040028
Young NS, Ioannidis JP, & Al-Ubaydli O. (2008) Why current publication practices may distort science. PLoS medicine, 5(10). PMID: 18844432
Fanelli D. (2009) How many scientists fabricate and falsify research? A systematic review and meta-analysis of survey data. PloS one, 4(5). PMID: 19478950
- February 13, 2012
- 12:12 AM
- 268 views
Just ONE Copy of The Daily Mail Could Ruin Your Life
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A comprehensive debunking of the Daily Mail's reporting of science.... Read more »
The Poynter Institute. (2006) Eyetracking the news. A study of print and online reading. Poynter. info:/
- January 31, 2012
- 10:30 PM
- 350 views
Human speech reconstructed from brain waves [video]
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
For the first time, scientists have reconstructed human speech from an ECoG signal.... Read more »
Pasley, B. David, S. Mesgarani, N. Flinker, A. Shamma, S. Crone, N. Knight, R. Chang, E. (2012) Reconstructing Speech from Human Auditory Cortex. PLoS Biology. DOI: info:/http://www.plosbiology.org/article/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001251
- January 27, 2012
- 10:10 AM
- 431 views
Oxford University Censor First Broadcast of Lecture That Resulted in Censuring of Prof. Nutt, Former UK Government Drugs Advisor
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Watch the full video of the lecture and uncover what was in the slides censored for "copyright reasons"... Read more »
Nutt, D., King, L., & Phillips, L. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. The Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-1565. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Nutt, D. (2009) Estimating drug harms: a risky business?. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. info:/
Halpern JH, Sherwood AR, Hudson JI, Gruber S, Kozin D, & Pope HG Jr. (2011) Residual neurocognitive features of long-term ecstasy users with minimal exposure to other drugs. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 106(4), 777-86. PMID: 21205042
Carhart-Harris, R., Erritzoe, D., Williams, T., Stone, J., Reed, L., Colasanti, A., Tyacke, R., Leech, R., Malizia, A., Murphy, K.... (2012) Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI studies with psilocybin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1119598109
Editorial team. (2010) The EMCDDA annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, also published in Euro surveillance :European communicable disease bulletin, 15(46). PMID: 21144426
- January 26, 2012
- 01:14 PM
- 422 views
NOT "Killed by Cannabis"
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A quick factual decomposition of the assertion that cannabis is lethal, made by the Daily Mail in response to Richard Branson's evidence at the Select Committee on drugs.... Read more »
Hughes CE, & Stevens A. (2012) A resounding success or a disastrous failure: Re-examining the interpretation of evidence on the Portuguese decriminalisation of illicit drugs. Drug and alcohol review, 31(1), 101-13. PMID: 22212070
- January 16, 2012
- 09:51 AM
- 605 views
Is this journal for real?
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
This year 134 suspect new journals have appeared from the abyss, all published by the same clandestine company “Scientific & Academic Publishing, USA“. Scientists have been quick to raise the alarm and ruthless in their response.... Read more »
Morrison, Heather. (2012) Scholarly Communication in Crisis. Freedom for scholarship in the internet age. Simon Fraser University School of Communication. info:/
- January 14, 2012
- 10:42 PM
- 440 views
When Satire Becomes Reality
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
On Friday political satirist Stephen Colbert entered the U.S. presidential race. A significant proportion of Conservatives in fact fail to understand satire and instead believe Colbert to be a Conservative commentator opposed to liberal thought.... Read more »
LaMarre, H., Landreville, K., & Beam, M. (2009) The Irony of Satire: Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 14(2), 212-231. DOI: 10.1177/1940161208330904
RAMSAY, C., KULL, S., LEWIS, E., & SUBIA, S. (2010) Misinformation and the 2010 Election. Published online at WORLDPUBLICOPINION.ORG by University of Maryland. info:/
- January 12, 2012
- 12:24 PM
- 322 views
Catch an "astrotweeter" with "Truthy"
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A research group at the University of Indiana has developed a program called Truthy that allows anyone to track cases of "astroturfing" on twitter. Any search term can be entered into Truthy and the program will scan the Twitter API and build a model of how the search term originated. ... Read more »
Ratkiewicz,J. Conover,M. Meiss,M. Gonçalves,B. Patil,S. Flammini,A. Menczer, F. (2011) Truthy: Mapping the Spread of Astroturf in Microblog Streams. World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2). . info:/
- January 9, 2012
- 12:43 PM
- 349 views
Nus, Sex, Breast Cancer and... [NSFW]
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
An irreverent look at a paper published in "The Breast Journal" with 15 references, all about sex, not cancer.... Read more »
Stuger, J. (2011) An Essay on Sexual Frustration as the Cause of Breast Cancer in Women: How Correlations and Cultural Blind Spots Conceal Causal Effects. The Breast Journal. DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4741.2011.01206.x
- January 2, 2012
- 07:37 AM
- 254 views
2011: The Year in Drugs Deaths and data fraud
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A round-up of this year’s drugs news along with the latest available statistical data which shows that helium killed more than ecstasy, cannabis, mephedrone and GHB combined.... Read more »
Nutt, D., King, L., & Phillips, L. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. The Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-1565. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61462-6
Measham,F. Moore, K. Østergaard, J. (2011) Mephedrone, ‘‘Bubble’’ and unidentified white powders: the contested identities of synthetic ‘‘legal highs". DRUGS AND ALCOHOL TODAY, 137-146. info:/
Editorial team. (2010) The EMCDDA annual report 2010: the state of the drugs problem in Europe. The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, also published in Euro surveillance :European communicable disease bulletin, 15(46). PMID: 21144426
- January 1, 2012
- 09:41 AM
- 441 views
Copyright vs Medicine: If this topic isn’t covered in your newspaper this weekend, get a new newspaper
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, after thirty years of silence, authors of a standard clinical psychiatric bedside test have issued take down orders of new medical research.... Read more »
Newman, J., & Feldman, R. (2011) Copyright and Open Access at the Bedside. New England Journal of Medicine, 365(26), 2447-2449. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1110652
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