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Neuroskeptic
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Neuro_Skeptic
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Neuroscience, psychology and psychiatry through a skeptical lens. Just a brain with some eyes. Blogs for @DiscoverMag and @PLOSNeuro.
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The "Eleven Dimensional" Brain? Topology of Neural Networks blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2… An interesting paper but no extra dimensions. New post! pic.twitter.com/VDUMY5BjNk
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good point!
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Basically all the meme neuroscience
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right. A cavity is just a set of connections (between 2 or more cliques) that are *not* present, right?
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HuffPo article claims that someone was "born with second sight" as "an empath." Dopamine is involved. huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-empa… huFFS post pic.twitter.com/fCnrFZeuiF
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Found one pic.twitter.com/oHMvR12x5i
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a sports physiologist might
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"According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there are many parts to the brain." chopratreatmentcenter.com/blog/2017/07/1… Well, if they say so! pic.twitter.com/aRnO2VHZXA
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They're not, currently, but maybe they should be
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Is General Intelligence Little More Than the Speed of Higher-Order Processing? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703620 To g or not to g. Symphony in g major pic.twitter.com/HFlxfNC8nN
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Should newspapers be responsible for accuracy? twitter.com/RetractionWatc…
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"Interspecies co-sleeping has been trivialized in the literature... receiving little attention from psychology" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28639123 😴🐱 pic.twitter.com/Y0Rx6zarHG
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We talk about a "right to health", but do we also need a "right to be ill"? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28710655 pic.twitter.com/gtWPiY0o0f
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Psychology of cults: what factors contribute to joining or leaving? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2871176… Paper out today is oddly topical #rkelly pic.twitter.com/2ZJlFlQEbo
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Surely he could have made money through legitimate work or at least done it without killing anyone... but his ego drove him to the extreme
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Macchiarini wasn't a shill... he's a fraud liar and egomaniac but I don't think he did it for money.
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Bacteria in Alzheimer's brains... hmm... until proven otherwise isn't this more likely consequence than cause of neurodegeneration? twitter.com/schneiderleoni…
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Or are there well-known processes that would create such cliquey graphs that are not all that interesting?
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Interesting, thanks! The authors say that the rate of high dimensional cliques is very high in the brain... is that interesting though?
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"The truth is we just hate PhD students. No doctorate, no entry"
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