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Due to various circumstances, the regular update, which the last few months happens every week, will be postponed. I will probably post the new article this Sunday. Read some of the older articles to keep yourself occupied

Neuroeconomics Explained, Part One
Neuroeconomics Explained, Part Two
While searching the web the other day, I found two very interesting introductory articles on neuroeconomics on Psychology Today. The author is Paul J. Zak who is the founding Director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies and Professor of Economics at Claremont Graduate University. In his bio on his [...]

Those of you who read this blog for sometime, already know some of my views concerning psychology. I am an avid supporter of "hard science". Science that is based on solid facts and follows the reductionist paradigm. Even though solid facts are not always the answer and reductionism could be replaced in the following decades [...]

I don’t know if you have noticed it, but there’s a site called Scholarpedia. It seems it was created in 2006, but I hadn’t found the site until recently. What is most interesting is that it’s a lot like Knol, since the articles are written by respectful authors with a scientific style. It seems that [...]

Science Daily has a very interesting research
One Sleepless Night Increases Dopamine In The Human Brain
The study reports 

Just one night without sleep can increase the amount of the chemical dopamine in the human brain, according to new imaging research in the August 20 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Because drugs that increase dopamine, like amphetamines, [...]

Neurophilosophy has an interview with Heather Perry: Lunch with Heather Perry. In case you don’t know her, she is an individual who decided to trepan herself. Trepanation is a procedure in which you open a hole in the skull. It was mainly used in ancient times to release the bad spirits, but it is [...]

BPS RESEARCH DIGEST: Our bodies fail to adjust to seasonal clock changes.
I promised to throw some random rant now and then and here it is. The above link will send you to BPS Research Digest and a a research with a 55.000 people sample proving what every one of us who faces sleeping disorders already [...]

Spheres of Influence: Scientific American.
The above was article was published in Scientific American Mind
Its author is Michael Gazzaniga one of the most respected figures in neuropsychology.

Michael Gazzaniga
If you don’t know him, he’s the guy who made the most important work in the lateralization of the two hemispheres. You’ve probably heard before that the left hemisphere [...]

Press Release: Neuropolicy Center Confronts the Biological Basis of Collective Decision Making
I found the above link in the Neuromarketing (Neuromarketing » Neuropolicy Center at Emory). It’s a press release about the opening of a new center for the correlation between brain and political behavior. 
I believe that we start to see a pattern here. At the [...]