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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 &…

BBC News – Mind Mapping: Inside the Brain’s Wiring (Human Connectome Project)

We believe that these images [of fiber pathways] will be a rich…

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…

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…

Strange or Just Plain Weird? Cultural Variation in Mental Illness

There’s an old saying that psychology has two model organisms:…