Braincast 024 - Hard-headed

Planing, acting and, most of all, inhibiting – those are the main tasks of the prefrontal cortex. Additionally it has peer-to-peer connections to emotion- and social related areas. So this episode is about that part of the brain, that makes us human. An episode including bad mood and good bets.

MP3 File Duration: 21:00

NEWS

• Education builds Cognitive Reserve for Alzheimer’s Disease Protection
  
• Your personality could affect the age you live to
  
• The Amnesia Gene
  
• The Flynn Effect: Troubles with Intelligence
  
• Prozac may counter parasite mind control
  
• Blurring the Boundary Between Perception and Memory
  
• Optimizing Cognition for Multi-threading
  
• Intelligent soldiers most likely to die in battle
  
• Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone
  
• Out of sight but not out of mind
  
• Disturbed Sleep tied to Parkinson´s Risk
  
• Is Morphine a Guy Drug?
  
• Love skews your sense of smell
• Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early
  
• Culture Shock May Explain Similarity Between Humans
  
• How do you feel — now? The anterior insula and human awareness
  
• My Genome, My Self
  
• “Voodoo” neuroscience
  
• The Mystery of Borderline Personality Disorder
  
• Anxiety correlates with diminished prefrontal control of attention
  
• Armenian Cave yields ancient Human Brain
  
• Magic reveals the brain's response to the impossible
  
• High hormone levels in women linked to unfaithfulness
  
• Are You a Moneymaker? Look at Your Hands
  
• Genetic 'clock' made in lab
  
• Is it really bad to be sad?
  
• Practising describing wines could help you become a connoisseur
  
• Doubts raised over brain scan findings: on the bps – Do you voodoo –, another great Neurocritic Voodoo Schadenfreude – and a very good piece on Nature: Brain imaging studies under fire
  

SHOWNOTES
First song is Swallow your Head by Happy Gemini 3, followed by the beautiful Myself, 5 Minutes ago by furiousBall. Next is Alimagne and Freddy Hop: Is it Jazz? Rock? Downbeat? However, the last song is CyrusFx ist mit Wanderlust.