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AAAS: Mapping the brain – Only connect | The Economist
Are psychiatric disorders, which leave no visible trace in the…
Madness or sadness? Local concepts of mental illness in four conflict-affected African communities (Abstract)
http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/7/1/3/abstract
Madness…
How virtual science communities are transforming academic research | Elsevier Connect
How virtual science communities are transforming academic research…
Nature Neuroscience: Focus on Memory
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This special focus includes reviews by Daniel Schacter &…
Cornelia Bargmann, Judith Rapoport on Charlie Rose Brain Series 2: Schizophrenia
The show includes Danny Hurley, who shares his first-person experiences…
BBC News – Mind Mapping: Inside the Brain’s Wiring (Human Connectome Project)
We believe that these images [of fiber pathways] will be a rich…
Child Development and Molecular Genetics: 14 Years Later – Plomin – 2012 – Child Development – Wiley Online Library
Fourteen years ago, the first article on molecular genetics was…
Psychiatry | No New Meds | via Science News
Psychiatry seemed poised on the edge of a breakthrough. In early…
TLS Review of Oliver Sacks’s Hallucinations
It is evident that [hallucinations] involve a top-down shaping…
Frontiers | Embodied Cognition is Not What you Think it is | Frontiers in Cognitive Science
Frontiers | Embodied Cognition is Not What you Think it is |…
Border Children: Interpreting Autism Spectrum Disorder in South Korea Grinker 2013 Ethos Wiley Online Library
Border Children: Interpreting Autism Spectrum Disorder in South…
The Culture of Mental Health in a Changing Oaxaca [dissertation]
Whitney L. Duncan, PhD (link to updated contact info at University…
“Redeeming diagnosis in psychiatry: Timing vs. specificity” (Lancet Viewpoint)
Patrick McGorry (University of Melbourne) and Jim van Os (Maastricht…
2013 International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium Conference Program (May 10–12, 2013)
We're looking forward to the first meeting of ICNC (May 10–12,…
Announcement: International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology Conference @UCLA
The next regional conference of the International Association…
Strange or Just Plain Weird? Cultural Variation in Mental Illness
There’s an old saying that psychology has two model organisms:…