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An EEG scanner app for smartphone lets you monitor your neural signals on the go. developed by @jakobeglarsen et al. http://t.co/L8MafEq5
Why scientists are leaving academia. By a tenured faculty who resigned from his post. http://t.co/HtQmo1BE /via @katejjeffery
Trans-generational epigenetic transmission of a cocaine-resistance phenotype http://t.co/5zpYElGz #sfn11
Grateful Dead drummer teams up with neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley to study the role of rhythm on brain function. http://j.mp/UfQKS7
NYT on the devastating loss of ~10,000 research mice at NYU http://j.mp/Sf5WPJ including my thesis committee member's decade worth of work
A portrait of the Nepalese Royal family taken by my father. Today marks 12 years since the gruesome Royal massacre. http://t.co/sTIKiN4W
"I have CDO - it's like OCD but all the letters are in alphabetical order... As they should be." via @teobesta
Nobel laureate Paul Nurse on The Great Ideas of Biology (The Royal Society Lecture) http://t.co/XwAOX431
“If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, then we would be so simple that we couldn’t.”
Thousands of mice used for scientific research at NYU drowned from #Sandy. http://j.mp/Tm7N44 Such a terrible setback for NYU researchers.
40 years after the Stanford Prison Expt, participants talk about how they feel about it now. http://t.co/6NvYpGd HT @noahwg @psych_writer
Amazing picture! MT @earth_pics Beluga Whales migration, Nunavut Inlet, Canada. pic.twitter.com/PecPE2zEyb (taken by Norbert Rosing)
Close to being the perfect photograph. http://j.mp/Yn5jr6 /via @pinarayata
A series of reviews on neuromodulatory mechanisms and how they influence neuronal function/behavior. http://t.co/mSORM9vS (free for Oct)
Talking of languages, a 75-year-old is the last surviving speaker of the 'moribund' Kusunda language in Nepal. http://t.co/AHZRgZeq
What is the probability of replicating a statistically significant effect? Probably unknowable. http://t.co/ng8YySns via @velascop
Researchers develop stem cell based RNA interference therapy for Huntington's disease. http://t.co/QfAvxPUI (paper: http://t.co/uqQ6Vsgd )
Inspiring: Teen w Down syndrome reaches the Everest base camp, raises $85K to support families affected by disability http://j.mp/13INc5T
"The human mind is the equivalent not to the brain itself, but to the pattern of information processing supported by the brain." ~ A Turing