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Amy Jones 11/24/12 Amy Jones 11/24/12

no filter or “flow” : your brain on freestyling, improvization and art in the atlantic “In other words, in order to turn on their creative flow, the rappers had to switch off their inner critic. And in fact, the researchers believe…
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Amy Jones 11/5/12 Amy Jones 11/5/12

addiction to the unpredictable in matters of the heart in the nyt illustration: jeanne detallante
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Amy Jones 11/2/12 Amy Jones 11/2/12

shifting understandings of the brain and consciousness over time in being human “Philosophers have wondered for thousands of years how we can be sure whether what we’re experiencing is reality or some shadowy deception. Plato imagined people l…
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Amy Jones 5/29/12 Amy Jones 5/29/12

all that glitters: how brain scans are much more complicated than the media would like them to be in the guardian
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Amy Jones 5/6/12 Amy Jones 5/6/12

the nyt on new thoughts about antidepressants : do they make us act better and then we feel better? “But the most profound implications have to do with how to understand the link between the growth of neurons, the changes in mood and the alte…
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Amy Jones 3/27/12 Amy Jones 3/27/12

diane ackerman on the brain and love in the nyt “Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful.”
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Amy Jones 10/3/11 Amy Jones 10/3/11

free will,  neuroscience, and the problem of the biological mechanization of evil in slate
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

Jonah Lehrer interviews Davi Johnson Thornton on her new book Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Popular Media “All of the time you have to constantly think “How is this affecting my brain? What is this going to do to my brain, and hence my futu…
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Amy Jones 8/14/11 Amy Jones 8/14/11

the neuroscience of “tanorexia” in the nyt
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Amy Jones 6/10/11 Amy Jones 6/10/11

does empathy have a mute button?: empathy and neuroscience in Scientific American
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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” -Neuroscientist David Eagleman cites Voltaire while contemplating God in New Scientist
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Amy Jones 4/18/11 Amy Jones 4/18/11

When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. “This explains why we think that time speeds up when we gro…
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