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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
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A study in to how the tabloids can misrepresent academic research.... 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
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A look at how meme theory can explain the wide spread misquotation of it's own "inventor" Richard Dawkins.... Read more »
Dawkins, R. (1979) The selfish gene By Richard Dawkins (1977). Oxford University Press. . Journal of Human Evolution, 8(6), 647-648. DOI: 10.1016/0047-2484(79)90117-9
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Kevin Warwick and his team at Reading University have successfully created a robot controlled directly by a rat's brain.... Read more »
Warwick, K., Xydas, D., Nasuto, S. J., Becerra, V. M., Hammond, M. W., Downes, J., Marshall, S., & Whalley, B . Defence Science, 60. (2010) Controlling a mobile robot with a biological brain. Defence Science, 60(1), 5-14. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
True story.... Read more »
Marzluff, J., Walls, J., Cornell, H., Withey, J., & Craig, D. (2010) Lasting recognition of threatening people by wild American crows. Animal Behaviour, 79(3), 699-707. DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.022
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
An interview with Professor David Nutt on the future direction of UK drugs policy.... Read more »
Nutt DJ, King LA, Phillips LD, & Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs. (2010) Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis. Lancet, 376(9752), 1558-65. PMID: 21036393
Nutt, D. (2008) Equasy -- An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 23(1), 3-5. DOI: 10.1177/0269881108099672
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
do_sud_thumb("http://neurobonkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/thestupiditburnsmini.jpg","Bad Science: Idiots and Ecstasy")... Read more »
Ricaurte, G. (2002) Severe Dopaminergic Neurotoxicity in Primates After a Common Recreational Dose Regimen of MDMA ("Ecstasy"). Science, 297(5590), 2260-2263. DOI: 10.1126/science.1074501
Mithoefer MC, Wagner MT, Mithoefer AT, Jerome I, & Doblin R. (2010) The safety and efficacy of { /-}3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine-assisted psychotherapy in subjects with chronic, treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder: the first randomized controlled pilot study. Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England). PMID: 20643699
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
Insel TR, Battaglia G, Johannessen JN, Marra S, & De Souza EB. (1989) 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine ("ecstasy") selectively destroys brain serotonin terminals in rhesus monkeys. The Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics, 249(3), 713-20. PMID: 2471824
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A review of a study on the correlation between FOX news consumption and levels of misinformation in light of news that the owner of FOX news is planning to by the SKY news agency in the UK.... Read more »
CLAY RAMSAY, STEVEN KULL, EVAN LEWIS, & STEFAN SUBIA. (2010) Misinformation and the 2010 Election. WORLDPUBLICOPINION.ORG. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
I’ve just been playing with... Read more »
Meehl, P. (1978) Theoretical risks and tabular asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the slow progress of soft psychology. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 46(4), 806-834. DOI: 10.1037//0022-006X.46.4.806
Michel JB, Shen YK, Aiden AP, Veres A, Gray MK, The Google Books Team, Pickett JP, Hoiberg D, Clancy D, Norvig P.... (2010) Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books. Science (New York, N.Y.). PMID: 21163965
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
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Tengs, T., Adams, M., Pliskin, J., Safran, D., Siegel, J., Weinstein, M., & Graham, J. (1995) Five-Hundred Life-Saving Interventions and Their Cost-Effectiveness. Risk Analysis, 15(3), 369-390. DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1995.tb00330.x
Mohammadi, & Sadeghian. (2011) iFAST: An Intelligent Fire-Threat Assessment and Size-up Technology for First Responders. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A study builds false memories of experience tasting popcorn using advertising. Methodology, questionable.... Read more »
Rajagopal, Priyali and Montgomery, Nicole Votolato,. (2011) I Imagine I Experience, I Like: The False Experience Effect . The Journal of Consumer Research. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
REPORT OF THEGLOBAL COMMISSIONON DRUG POLICY finds drug war has failed.... 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, 1-22. info:/
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
An analysis of the BBC program "Cannabis: How Drugs Work" based on the evidence.... Read more »
Hickman M, Vickerman P, Macleod J, Kirkbride J, & Jones PB. (2007) Cannabis and schizophrenia: model projections of the impact of the rise in cannabis use on historical and future trends in schizophrenia in England and Wales. Addiction (Abingdon, England), 102(4), 597-606. PMID: 17362293
GREEN, B. (2005) Cannabis use and misuse prevalence among people with psychosis. The British Journal of Psychiatry, 187(4), 306-313. DOI: 10.1192/bjp.187.4.306
Cattapan-Ludewig K, Ludewig S, Jaquenoud Sirot E, Etzensberger M, & Hasler F. (2005) [Why do schizophrenic patients smoke?]. Der Nervenarzt, 76(3), 287-94. PMID: 15448920
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
Why the drinks industry has spent millions spreading misinformation about drugs and how it continues to put lives in danger.... Read more »
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
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
do_sud_thumb("http://neurobonkers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ObviousTroll1.jpg","Throwing babies at wind-shields and... Read more »
Gilliam CM, Diefenbach GJ, Whiting SE, & Tolin DF. (2010) Stepped care for obsessive-compulsive disorder: An open trial. Behaviour research and therapy, 48(11), 1144-9. PMID: 20728075
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
The Government announced this week the list... Read more »
Rolles S. (2010) An alternative to the war on drugs. BMJ (Clinical research ed.). PMID: 20627976
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
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Khodayari-Rostamabad A, Reilly JP, Hasey G, Debruin H, & Maccrimmon D. (2010) Diagnosis of psychiatric disorders using EEG data and employing a statistical decision model. Conference proceedings : .. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference, 4006-9. PMID: 21097280
Khodayari-Rostamabad, A., Hasey, G., MacCrimmon, D., Reilly, J., & Bruin, H. (2010) A pilot study to determine whether machine learning methodologies using pre-treatment electroencephalography can predict the symptomatic response to clozapine therapy. Clinical Neurophysiology, 121(12), 1998-2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2010.05.009
Charles DeBattista, Gustavo Kinrys, Daniel Hoffman, Corey Goldstein, John Zajecka, James Kocsis, Martin Teicher, Steven Potkin, Adrian Preda, Gurmeet Multani, Len Brandt, Mark Schiller, Dan Iosifescu, Maurizio Fava. (2011) The use of referenced-EEG (rEEG) in assisting medication selection for the treatment of depression . Psychiatric Research, 15(12), 64-75. DOI: The use of referenced-EEG (rEEG) in assisting medication selection for the treatment of depression
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
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Kim, J., Andres-Beck, B., & Goldie, S. (2007) The value of including boys in an HPV vaccination programme: a cost-effectiveness analysis in a low-resource setting. British Journal of Cancer, 97(9), 1322-1328. DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604023
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
A look at how the rapidly increasing fake medicines market could be prevented with open data and how the problem is inextricably linked to the underground generic pills trade.... Read more »
Cockburn, R., Newton, P., Agyarko, E., Akunyili, D., & White, N. (2005) The Global Threat of Counterfeit Drugs: Why Industry and Governments Must Communicate the Dangers. PLoS Medicine, 2(4). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020100
by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers
fMRI used to create a video output based on a dictionary created by showing participants 7200s of random colour video.... Read more »
Nishimoto S, Vu AT, Naselaris T, Benjamini Y, Yu B, & Gallant JL. (2011) Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies. Current biology : CB. PMID: 21945275
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