Sci is at SciAm blogs today, looking at how sleep deprivation might change your dopamine signaling. This could help explain some of the crazy behaviors that come with sleep deprivation (other than the crazy tiredness). Ah, sleep deprivation. What a way to start your Monday. Head over and check it out!
Not you chewing. The rats. Why chewing, you might ask? The authors of this study are using chewing as a way to induce “active behavioral coping”. And while the idea has merit, the data make me not so sure. (Hey wait! That’s not a stick! Source) Helmreich et al. “Active behavioral coping alters the behavioral […]
It’s been a busy few days around my end, and I wasn’t able to talk up this post like I wanted, but in case you missed it, I was at The Scicurious Brain on Monday, talking about a study showing that antidepressants may do better combined with stress than they do alone! Or at least, […]
Does seeing organic make you a self-satisfied jerk? At SciAm today, I’m covering the latest study that made it big over the weekend, on whether seeing organic labels influences your moral judgements. While the authors conclude that seeing organic DOES make you a self-satisfied jerk, I’m not so sure, and think there are too many […]
Are you trying to get a date? Have you tried it all, cologne, flowers, playing it casual, nice dinners? And have you considered environmental enrichment? What is environmental enrichment? Environmental enrichment is the idea that the brain responds to stimulating environments, with things like decreased anxiety-like responses, decreased cognitive decline with aging, increased coping mechanisms, […]
I’ve got an article up over at Sci Am Mind and Brain today, about recent advances in behavioral and cognitive therapies for ADHD, and how these therapies may be better than medication in the long run. And I have also included, at my Sci Am blog, a list of the references I used for the […]
Sci is at SciAm today, talking about a recent paper showing that exercise can change the methylation of your muscle DNA. What does that mean? How could it work? Head over there to find out.
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, with a repost on depression, gene therapy, and p11. I’ve got some fabulous science cooking in the lab that needs all of my attention today, but please enjoy the repost and I’ll be back soon!
Over at Sci Am today, I’ve got a post on how high fat and sugar induced obesity in mice may produce depressive-like symptoms. It’s an interesting paper, but as usual, I’m wondering: what is the mechanism?? Head over and check it out.
At SciAm Blogs today, I am pleased to welcome Dr. Becca of Fumbling Toward Tenure as a guest blogger! She’s doing an excellent takedown of a recent article in the NY Times, which gave some rather incorrect impressions of a recent study involving cocaine and mice. Head over and check it out!