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24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
The 24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience will be held from June 24 – July 7, 2012. This year’s topics are “Does Brain Plasticity Account for Everything?” with Jon H. Kaas, and “The Indispensable
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Dyslexia not related to intelligence, study finds
Los Angeles Times: One’s intelligence appears unrelated to the specific brain pattern that causes dyslexia, researchers reported Thursday. The findings are important because they suggest that IQ shouldn’t be considered by education specialists when diagnosing
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Does Inequality Make Us Unhappy?
WIRED: Inequality is inevitable; life is a bell curve. Such are the brute facts of biology, which can only evolve because some living things are better at reproducing than others. But not all inequality is
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Stress Eating and the Consequences
Elissa Epel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco. She will be speaking at the 24th APS Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the cross-cutting theme
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Rising Stars
Ehsan Arabzadeh Joshua Correll Lisa DeBruine Hal E. Hershfield Karen Gonsalkorale Yong He Aarti Iyer Wendy Johnson Jeffrey D. Karpicke Katherine Kinzler Joe Magee Betsy Levy Paluck Angelica Ronald Susanne Scheibe Ehsan Arabzadeh University of
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Neuroscience and the Law
A few minutes into his talk at the APS 23rd Annual Convention, APS Past President Michael Gazzaniga, now a professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, clicked to a slide titled “Role
