Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The interesting concept of a ‘possession trance disorder’ diagnosis is discussed by Neurocritic.
BBC News video reports on how Brazil is considering a law to forcibly remove crack addicts from the street into rehab.
Goodbye PDD-NOS, hello Social Communication Disorder. A sneaked-out DSM-5 change for the autism spectrum is covered by Cracking the Enigma.
Nature reports that Henry Markham’s Human Brain Project which is supposedly aiming to ‘simulate the human brain’ (but actually, isn’t) gets kazillion dollar funding.
The DSM-5 will cost $199 a copy, reports DSM-5 in Distress. That’s like 50c a diagnosis.
Brighton Science Festival has a fantastic day on the Science of Sex on 9th February.
China’s One Child Policy may have altered the personality of a generation according to research reviewed by the Nodes of Ranvier blog.
Time magazine on how the tactics used in ‘troubled teen’ reality TV programmes are know to make adolescents worse.
Is there a right age for first sex? an interesting study is briefly covered by Providentia.
Discover Magazine reports that data storage in DNA has become a reality. Sony to sue RNA strands for piracy.
A new Nature NeuroPod has hit the wires. Psychology and Sherlock Holmes, movement and memory.
Colossal has some wonderful abstract 3D sculptures that transform in cylindrical mirrors. Have to be seen.
Compare and contrast: high heels make women’s walk more attractive to males / historically women adopted high heels from male fashion to masculinise their outfits. Found: an evolutionary psychology infinite loop!
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