Reading a review of ‘The Idea of the Brain’
This week I read a review in Nature of Matthew Cobb’s forthcoming book, The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience. The review by Stephen Cas...
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Thalamus in the spotlight
Knowable magazine, which covers research published in Annual Reviews journals, has a nice interview by writer Emily Underwod of Michael Halassa, an expert on...
Brainy books
I was in the local library this afternoon and browsing through the science section. There were quite a number of popular books on neuroscience published acro...
Brain scans and gene scans
Wray Herbert notes the fallacy of interpreting fMRI and other brain imagery as especially meaningful: “The Brain Is Not an Explanation”. I’m pointing to this...
Biology of Mind: The Blog
I am doing a unique experiment with my course this semester, “Biology of Mind.” The course has a history of collaborative peer review on writing assignments,...