• How sleep shapes what we remember and forget.

    Updated: 2023-01-30 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 30, 2023 How sleep shapes what we remember and forget . I have found monitoring the quality of my sleep to be a fascinating and useful activity . I use both the Oura ring and Apple watch to monitor body temperature , body movement , heart rate , and heart rate variability , and then compare their different but broadly similar algorithmic estimates of deep sleep , REM sleep , non-REM sleep , and wake periods . I'm on the lookout for articles on sleep during my scans of journals' tables of contents , and have come upon this review by Sakai of what is happening in our sleep to be concise and useful . Below is a more general overview

  • MindBlog's 2010 recital and lecture in Istanbul

    Updated: 2023-01-27 06:00:00
    I've been meandering back over old MindBlog posts and found an orphaned .mov file that I've reposted to my YouTube channel, quite a bit of nostalgia. The guy turning my pages was my handler and guide during my 10 day visit to Istanbul. He is now a Turkish Airlines pilot. nbsp;

  • Antipsychotic Medication Use in Pregnancy and Risk of Maternal and Neonatal Metabolic Complications

    Updated: 2023-01-25 22:20:38
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  • The Evolution of Peace

    Updated: 2023-01-25 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 25, 2023 The Evolution of Peace I pass on the abstract of an article by Luke Glowacki that has been submitted to the network of Behavioral and Brain Science reviewers who might offer commentary on its arguments . Motivated readers can obtain a copy of the article from me . Abstract : While some species have affiliative and even cooperative interactions between individuals of different social groups , humans are alone in having durable , positive-sum , interdependent relationships across unrelated social groups . Our capacity to have harmonious relationships that cross group boundaries is an important aspect of our species'

  • Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Psychological Well-Being of Individuals Undergoing Infertility Treatment 

    Updated: 2023-01-24 21:59:54
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  • Weekly Roundup for JANUARY 20, 2023: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2023-01-23 14:35:06
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  • Our different styles of thinking.

    Updated: 2023-01-23 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 23, 2023 Our different styles of thinking . An interesting recent article by Joshua Rothman the ideas editor of newyorker.com , notes several recent books that describe different styles of thinking . A few clips : In Visual Thinking : The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures , Patterns , and Abstractions , 8221 Temple Grandin identifies a continuum of thought styles that’s roughly divisible into three sections . On one end are verbal thinkers , who often solve problems by talking about them in their heads or , more generally , by proceeding in the linear , representational fashion typical of language . Estimating the cost

  • A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is....

    Updated: 2023-01-20 06:00:00
    : . Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 20, 2023 A quick MindBlog riff on what a self is . Spilling out what I was thinking at breakfast this morning , deciding to fire it off , probably incomprehensible to most readers , perhaps to attempt to clarify later or delete My self model or I' stands amongst my models of others , and during my early postnatal period I probably formed those other models prior to my own , a yet unknown self discovering and learning to predict the behavior of others to gain feeding and care , and only then composing my own self from parts of them . This is consonant with Graziano's take on consciousness as a perceptual construct Consciousness and

  • Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present

    Updated: 2023-01-18 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 18, 2023 Mindful attention enhances brain network control and uncouples past from the present Zhou et al . open source do an interesting experiment on mindfulness and brain network control : Significance Practicing mindfulness helps individuals regulate attention , thoughts , feelings , and behavior . In recognizing these benefits , various schools , workplaces , and clinics are increasingly teaching mindfulness . How does mindful attention change brain function to support self-regulation Addressing this question could inform how we teach mindfulness and whom we expect to benefit . We modeled the defining components of mindful

  • Reassuring Data on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Children with Prenatal Exposure to Antipsychotic Medications

    Updated: 2023-01-17 00:00:38
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  • COVID-19 and brain aging

    Updated: 2023-01-16 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 16, 2023 COVID-19 and brain aging Over the Christmas and New Year's holidays I was hit first by a mild Covid infection that lasted only a few days I've had all 5 vaccinations and immediately took Paxlovid on testing positive and then five days later had a slightly longer Paxlovid-rebound infection . A transient brain fog seems to have cleared by now . This personal experience makes me especially attentive to articles like Welberg's note on Covid-19 and brain aging which suggests that brain changes associated with Covid infection are most likely due to neuroinflammation resulting from the infection , not from the virus itself . Here

  • Weekly Roundup for JANUARY 13, 2023: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2023-01-13 13:09:10
    : Skip to content Search About Mission Statement Staff Our Publications Location Support Our Program Join Our Team Specialty Areas PMS PMDD Fertility Mental Health Psychiatric Disorders During Pregnancy Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders Breastfeeding Psychiatric Medications Menopausal Symptoms Blog Recent Posts Essential Reads Our Column at ObGyn News Subscribe to Our Newsletter Clinical Program Our Clinicians Make an Appointment Research Program MGH Postpartum Psychosis Project A Neurosteroid Intervention for Menopausal and Perimenopausal Depression UPWARD UPWARD(S Preventing Depressive Relapse in Pregnant Women National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric Medications STEPS for PPD Screening and Treatment Enhancement for Postpartum Depression in the MGB System MGHPDS Mobile App General

  • Materialism meets transcendence

    Updated: 2023-01-13 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 13, 2023 Materialism meets transcendence I want to pass on the URL to a PBS series by Alan Lightman that I plan to start watching as soon as I can , based on the following description and review in Science Magazine In part 1, The Stars The Osprey , 8221 Lightman undergoes functional magnetic resonance imaging and interviews neuroscientist Robert Desimone about how much neuroimaging can tell us about Lightman’s transcendental experience . He ultimately finds this approach unsatisfying and introduces viewers to the debate between mechanists , who believe that the laws of physics , chemistry , and biology are sufficient to explain life

  • Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health

    Updated: 2023-01-11 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 11, 2023 Awe as a Pathway to Mental and Physical Health Reading this open source review from Maria Monroy and Dacher Keltner leaves me feeling substantially more mellow Their abstract , followed by a quote from Emerson , and then a summary graphic . How do experiences in nature or in spiritual contemplation or in being moved by music or with psychedelics promote mental and physical health Our proposal in this article is awe . To make this argument , we first review recent advances in the scientific study of awe , an emotion often considered ineffable and beyond measurement . Awe engages five processes—shifts in neurophysiology ,

  • AI After Death: interactions with AI representations of the deceased

    Updated: 2023-01-09 06:00:00
    : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Monday , January 09, 2023 AI After Death : interactions with AI representations of the deceased I want to pass on to MindBlog readers the following excellent notes that Terry Allard made to guide a discussion at the Nov . 29, 2022 session of the Chaos Complex Systems Discussion group at the Univ . of Wisconsin . nbsp Chaos Complex Systems Discussion AI After Death : interactions with AI representations of the deceased November 29, 2022 Source material : Washington Post Nov 12, 2022, by Caren Chesler : AI’s New Frontier https : www.washingtonpost.com health 2022 11 12 artificial-intelligence-grief See also https : www.media.mit.edu projects

  • Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

    Updated: 2023-01-06 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Friday , January 06, 2023 Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty Wow , in an article with title of this post Breznau et al . show that different research teams presented independently with the same data and social science hypothesis reach opposing conclusions about what the data show . Significance Will different researchers converge on similar findings when analyzing the same data Seventy-three independent research teams used identical cross-country survey data to test a prominent social science hypothesis : that more immigration will reduce public support for government provision of

  • A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery

    Updated: 2023-01-04 06:00:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff Wednesday , January 04, 2023 A deep-learning model of prescient ideas demonstrates that they emerge from the periphery The abstract of a fascinating open source article from Vicinanza et al . Where do prescient ideas—those that initially challenge conventional assumptions but later achieve widespread acceptance—come from Although their outcomes in the form of technical innovation are readily observed , the underlying ideas that eventually change the world are often obscured . Here we develop a novel method that uses deep learning to unearth the markers of prescient ideas from the language used by individuals and groups . Our language-based measure

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