International Psychoanalysis

Click here to Read:  Beyond the Brain By David Brooks in The New York Times on June 17, 2013.

David Brooks on “Neurocentrism”

Brooks in today’s NYT’s column cites several recent books that reframe the popularity of brain picturing in today’s science and popular press.

He summarizes four conceptual complications about using brain imaging alone to explain our functioning. First, that a brain region may serve a variety of different tasks. Second, (and complementary), that one task may use different brain reactions or states. Third, that one activity, such as ‘working memory’, may distribute over multiple regions (at least 30 in the case of working (more…)

Click Here to Read: Dad’s Stress Could Affect Offspring Through Epigenetic Changes To Sperm, Mouse Study Shows  on the Huffington Post website on June 16, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Researchers Find Biological Evidence of Gulf War Illnesses  By James  Dao in The New York Times on  June 14, 2013.

Ronald Brown, a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf war, has had health problems since 1992.

Click Here to Read: The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious by Heather A. Berlin (New York).

This article originally appeared as Berlin, Heather (2011).  The Neural Basis of the Dynamic Unconscious Neuropsychoanalysis 13 (1) and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.

Click Here to Read: Neuroscience Meets
Psychoanalysis by Heather Berlin in Scientific American Mind

Click Here to Read: After Patent Ruling, Availability of Gene Tests Could Broaden By Andrew Pollack in The New York Times on June 13, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Closed Thinking:  Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere By Bruce Bower in Science News  June 1, 2013; Vol.183 #11.

Click Here to Read:  The trouble with neuroscience by David Robson on the New Scientist Life website on June 03, 2013.

There’s much more to human behaviour than brain activity (Image: Alexander Tsiaras/SPL)

Click Here to Read: When Social Skills Are a Warning.  Behavior Changes Serve as an Early Signal of Mental-Health Issues; Starting Treatment Sooner by Shirley S. Wang in The Wall Street Journal on May 20, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Psychoanalysis,  Science, and the Seductive Theory of Karl Popper by Don C. Grant and Edwin Harari.

This articles originally appeared as:   Don C. Grant and Edwin Harari (2006).  Psychoanalysis,  Science, and the Seductive Theory of Karl Popper. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 39:446-452 and appears here with all requisite rights and permissions.
 

Click Here to Read:  New brain imaging study advances understanding of how humans use tools on the HealthCanal website on May 31, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience A botched lobotomy left 27-year-old Henry Molaison unable to form new memories. This is how Molaison’s personal tragedy became science’s gain. By Suzanne Corkin on the Popsci website on May 29, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Depressed brains are less ‘plastic’ by Anna Salleh on the ABC Science website on  May 28, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Painting through the power of thought enabled by scientists by Richard Gray on the Telegraph website on May 25, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  A Fossil Fuel-Free New York State by 2050 by Bruce Melton on the Truthout website on May 26, 2013,

Click Here to Read:  Environmental Enrichment Reduces Autism Symptoms on the Doctor’s Lounge website on May 24, 2013.

Click Here to Read:  Scientists believe they’ve learned why toddlers don’t retain early memories  By Linda Carroll on the NBC News website on May 24, 2013.

Click Here to Read: Still Charting Memory’s Depths by Claudia Dreifus in The New York Times on May 20, 2013.

Yannick Grandmont for The New York Times.
Brenda Milner’s work in the 1950s showed how memory is rooted in specific regions of the brain.

Click Here to Read:  A Nobel Prize with help from sea slugs by Edythe McNamee and Jacque Wilson, on the CNN website on May 14, 2013.

Eric Kandel

Click Here to Read:  The Animal Mind Reader: Jaak Panksepp set out to find the biology of emotions. He found the biology of animal consciousness by Eric Sorensen in the Washington State Magazine Summer 2013 issue, photos by Robert Hubner.

Click Here to Read:   Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears By Justin Gillis in The New York Times on May 10, 2013.

The average carbon dioxide reading surpassed 400 parts per million at the research facility atop the Mauna Loa volcano on the island of Hawaii for the 24 hours that ended at 8 p.m. on Thursday.