February 2012
fuckyeahneuroscience:
Can you feel your heart breaking? Study shows broken hearts hurt like broken bones in the brain
shannsational:
The relationship between emotional and physical pain goes both ways: just as physical pain-relieving drugs can kill emotional pain, so too can emotional support — for example, holding a loved one’s hand — reduce physical pain.
Research even shows that...
Somatoform Disorders
onlinecounsellingcollege:
Somatoform disorders are a group of conditions where people experience physical pain which has no physiological basis. Thus, the person will generally become increasingly preoccupied with their health, will display increasingly negative emotions towards doctors, and will ask for more and more medical tests to be carried out on them.
There are specific criteria required...
Neuronal Development And Memory - Discovery May...
neurosciencestuff:
Article Date: 27 Feb 2012 - 10:00 PST
In a study, due to appear in the March 30 issue of Cell, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have discovered, for the first time, that neurons at different stages of their life cycles potentially perform two separate functions, such as forming distinct memories of almost identical situations, and the ...
“Neuroscientific evidence is increasingly reaching United States courtrooms in a...”
– Law and Neuroscience in the United States, Jones & Shen [via].
So maybe people “at the courtroom, regulatory, and policy levels” should be chiming in about how these challenges will be handled. If the science is not ready and evidentiary standards aren’t met because of that, is all we can do...
gaywrites:
U of Denver tests gender-neutral bathrooms
Residential advisers at the University of Denver have launched a “transgender awareness program” by converting a dorm bathroom into a gender-neutral bathroom for a few weeks.
Signs were posted around the building to let students know what was going on and why it was important, and organizers told campus media that the effects...
