…or at least, it’s in the competition. Sci is at SciAm blogs today talking about a new study looking at how the brain processes the presence of competition when making a choice. Because if you found something tasty, odds are someone beat you to it. Head over and check it out.

Sci is at Scientific American Blogs today, talking about a cool study investigating the role of kappa opioid receptors during pair bond maintenance in voles. Because while pair bond formation requires lots of warm and fuzzy feelings, pair bond maintenance is a bit more aggressive. Head over and check it out!

Note: I was thinking about writing up some refutations on the idea that “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down,”, because that is NONSENSE and that kind of claim makes me ragey. However, Kate Clancy over at Context and Variation has written up a […]

Sci is at Sci Am Blogs today, talking about a paper looking at fMRI signaling in anorexics as compared to controls and obese individuals. I’ve seen a bunch of papers on obesity and reward-related systems, but this is one of the first I’ve seen trying to look at anorexia, the opposite side of the reward […]

Sci is over at SciAm Blogs today talking about a new hot study getting some major press. The press release states that they have “blocked” addiction using a new drug called (+)-naloxone through the immune system, while “avoiding the wiring”. What the heck does that mean? And what did they really find? It turns out […]

(Probably I could have saved this for Friday Weird Science, but I can’t help myself, it’s getting a lot of press, and hey…who doesn’t want two Fridays in a week? Happy Wednesday!) We all know how it goes. They stood, framed by stormclouds, together on the windswept cliff. The stranger held Rosamund in an iron […]

Sci is at Sci Am Blogs today, talking about a new paper which mapped the connectome, the series of connections between neurons, for the posterior section of a C. elegans male. And what’s in the posterior section? Well it’s all about mating, of course! Head over and check it out.

Imagine for a minute. You’re in a coffeeshop, or a bar, or at a swanky cocktail party (whichever you prefer). There are people around, chatting nearby. But you’re speaking to the person directly across from you. Somehow, you can pick their voice out of the chatter and attend to what they are saying, even though […]

Over at SciAm Blogs, Sci is talking about a recent paper looking at the phenomenon of mimietic desire, the idea that an object grows in value when you see that other people want it, and probably explains the popularity of almost every single pointless trend. How does it work? Head over and check it out!

Sci is at Sci Am Blogs today, talking about a recent fMRI study looking at caffeine and responses to socially threatening stimuli. Is your boss threatening you? Or can you blame it on your cup of coffee? Head over and find out!