Posts tagged with: Neuroscience
Research Café 1 (2011) – Lord Owen: a neuroscientific basis for hubris
“I could have talked about politicians, but I’ve done that. So, as a very lapsed neuroscientist, I thought I would summarise some indicators (for) seeing whether there’s a neuroscience basis for...
Narcissistic personality disorder: a clinical perspective. (2011)
"This article highlights some of the seemingly incompatible clinical presentations of narcissistic traits and NPD, especially as they co-occur with depressivity and perfectionism, and it discusses implications for building a...
Psychiatry and politicians: the ‘hubris syndrome’. (2011)
"Lord Owen has provided psychiatrists and other physicians with useful guidance on how to recognise the appearance of hubris syndrome in persons who hold positions of power. He has also provided...
Prof Paul Fletcher (2011): directions for neuroscientific research
The challenge now is to begin to understand how lower level mental processes manifest themselves in higher order decisions and behaviour, particularly sub-optimal behaviours Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of...
Effects of expectation on placebo-induced dopamine release in Parkinson disease. (Aug 2010)
"The anticipation of therapeutic benefit in response to placebo administration has been likened to the expectation of reward, particularly in patients with a chronic debilitating illness who have already experienced...
Hubris: a primal danger. (2010)
"Concern about hubris is deeply embedded in our genes. Humans might have evolved ways to ... prohibit behaviors which threaten them. Strivings for rank and power can be threats, which is why dire...
Describing the brain in autism in five dimensions – magnetic resonance imaging-assisted diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder using a multiparameter classification approach. (2010)
"The neuroanatomy of autism is truly multidimensional, and affects multiple and most likely independent cortical features. The spatial patterns detected using SVM may help further exploration of the specific genetic...
Social conflict: the emergence and consequences of struggle and negotiation. (2010)
"This essay considers how social conflict emerges, the ways in which it can be managed and the functions it performs. .. Conflict can have both negative and positive influences for teams...
The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. (2010)
"Oxytocin drives a “tend and defend” response in that it promoted in-group trust and cooperation, and defensive, but not offensive, aggression toward competing out-groups. Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Lindred...
The neuroscience of money: finding how traders tick. (2010)
"A fascinating overview of some of the most interesting research of the last few years into the neuroscience of money and the impact genetics, neurology, physics and biology might have on financial...