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  • March 8, 2011
  • 10:09 PM
  • 1,357 views

Public Service Announcement: Drugs Misinformation Kills

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

Today I took a tough... 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  

  • December 16, 2011
  • 09:47 PM
  • 1,248 views

Daily Mail misunderstand and misconstrue cannabis-schizophrenia research

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  

  • December 27, 2010
  • 10:51 PM
  • 1,122 views

Meme Theory Today (NSFW)

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 »

  • May 7, 2011
  • 04:14 PM
  • 1,092 views

Rise of the Rat Brained Robots

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:/

  • May 9, 2011
  • 05:52 PM
  • 1,028 views

US Trained Crows to Hunt Bin Laden

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  

  • February 22, 2011
  • 04:11 PM
  • 1,022 views

The Future of Drugs in The UK: An Evening with Professor Nutt

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

An interview with Professor David Nutt on the future direction of UK drugs policy.... Read more »

  • March 14, 2011
  • 08:40 PM
  • 1,012 views

Bad Science: Idiots and Ecstasy

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

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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  

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  

  • December 26, 2010
  • 10:03 PM
  • 995 views

England, Prepare to be Brainwashed

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:/

  • December 30, 2010
  • 01:28 PM
  • 976 views

Playing with Google “Experiments”

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

I’ve just been playing with... Read more »

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  

  • April 17, 2011
  • 12:11 PM
  • 932 views

Calculating the value of a year of human life in $US

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:/

  • May 30, 2011
  • 07:09 PM
  • 912 views

Study Demonstrates False Memories Implanted Via Advertising

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:/

  • June 2, 2011
  • 09:27 PM
  • 903 views

The Confederacy of Dunces: The House of Cards is Falling

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:/

  • January 11, 2011
  • 11:00 AM
  • 897 views

Cannabis: What The BBC Forgot to Tell You

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

An analysis of the BBC program "Cannabis: How Drugs Work" based on the evidence.... Read more »

  • March 9, 2011
  • 08:49 PM
  • 875 views

Drugs Misinformation Campaigns, The Untold Story

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  

  • April 10, 2011
  • 07:01 PM
  • 868 views

Throwing babies at wind-shields and kissing petrol pumps

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

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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  

  • January 21, 2011
  • 03:44 PM
  • 811 views

Out With The Scientists, In With The Quacks (and religious zealots)

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  

  • March 22, 2011
  • 11:18 AM
  • 782 views

One Nanostep for Technology, One Quantum Leap for Psychiatry

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  

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  

  • January 11, 2011
  • 11:14 PM
  • 769 views

Cleanternet vs The HPV Vaccine, A Cost Benefit Analysis

by Neurobonkers in Neurobonkers

This video was made in... Read more »

  • January 4, 2011
  • 02:25 PM
  • 692 views

The Real Drugs Crisis: The top secret database worth $35,000,000,000 in blood money, that you didn’t even know existed

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 »

  • October 3, 2011
  • 07:20 AM
  • 666 views

Scientists successfully reconstruct the mind’s eye for the first time as a video output

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 »

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