Braincast 025 - Materialism, Buddhism and Position Definition

Episode 25 is rather personal with a look behind my mental curtain: motivation and preferences, why Buddhism pops up on a regular basis and about my biggest problem on the topic. A definition of position.

MP3 File Duration: 19:35


NEWS

• Model of surprise has 'wow' factor built in
  
• Top 11 compounds in US drinking water
  
• Slumber quality important for learning
  
• Epigenentics reveals unexpected, and some identical, results
  
• What Makes You Uniquely "You"?
• Have we met?
  
• Fetal exposure to testosterone linked with presence of autistic traits in childhood
  
• Think Animals Don't Think Like Us? Think Again
  
• Neural Paths for Borderline Personality Disorder
  
• Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
  
• Why we hiccup
  
• Researchers Try to Cure Racism
  
• Feeling Old? Blame Your Nuclear Pores
  
• Darkness, Melatonin may stall breast and prostate cancers
  
• What Do Women Want?
  
• Nicotine Activates More Than Just The Brain's Pleasure Pathway
  
• Misunderstanding sarcasm may signal dementia
  
• Cunning psychopaths manipulate their way out of jail
  
• Male bonding is rife in chimp society too
  
• Eat a little less, remember more
  
• The Legal Brain: How Does the Brain Make Judgments about Crimes?
  
• I feel your Pain, even though I can´t feel mine
  
• Voodoo Correlations: Have the Results of Some Brain Scanning Experiments Been Overstated?
  
• Parenting shapes genetic risk for drug use
  
• How the weather can affect your memory
  
• A brain cancer vaccine?
  
• This week´s topic, drastically on bps: Another shock for brain imaging research - the signal isn't always linked to neuronal activity. More relaxed on Science (Brain's Arteries Have a Mind of Their Own) and Nature (Brain imaging measures more than we think)
  

SHOWNOTES
We start with the beautiful After all by Alexander Blu, continue with Black Coffee by Aramitsu and end smoothly with Surise by Klavar.

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.