• What Is a Society?: The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Updated: 2024-02-28 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 28, 2024 What Is a Society The Importance of Building an Interdisciplinary Perspective I'm passing on the abstract I just received of a forthcoming article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences that I am starting to have a look through . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article by emailing me . Abstract : I submit the need to establish a comparative study of societies , namely groups beyond a simple , immediate family that have the potential to endure for generations , whose constituent individuals recognize one another as members , and that maintain control over access to a

  • Allison Baker, MD on the Specialized Care of Pregnant and Postpartum Women with ADHD

    Updated: 2024-02-28 00:42:57
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  • Neuroimaging Study Sheds Light on the Impact of Maternal Depression and Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure on Fetal Brain Development

    Updated: 2024-02-26 14:12:18
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  • The "enjunkification" of our online lives

    Updated: 2024-02-26 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 26, 2024 The enjunkification of our online lives I want to pass on two articles I've poured over several times , that describe the increasing complexification or enjunkification of our online lives . The first is The Year Millennials Aged Out of the Internet by Millenial writer Max Reed . Here are some clips from the article . nbsp Something is changing about the internet , and I am not the only person to have noticed . Everywhere I turned online this year , someone was mourning : Amazon is making itself worse” as New York magazine moaned Google Search is a bloated and overmonetized”

  • Weekly Roundup for February 23, 2024: Recent Publications in Women’s Mental Health

    Updated: 2024-02-23 20:11:59
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  • Using caffeine to induce flow states

    Updated: 2024-02-23 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 23, 2024 Using caffeine to induce flow states I pass on this link to an article in Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews open access and show the Highlights and Abstract of the article below . nbsp One of the coauthors , Steven Kotler , who is executive director at the Flow Research Collective was mentioned in my previous 2019 Mind Blog post A Schism in Flow-land Flow Genome Project vs . Flow Research Collective . It was the last in a series of critical posts that started in 2017. While I agree from my personal experience that caffeine as well other common stimulants can induce more

  • AI makes our humanity matter more than ever.

    Updated: 2024-02-21 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 21, 2024 AI makes our humanity matter more than ever . I want to pass on this link to an NYTimes Opinion Guest essay by Aneesh Raman a work force expert at LinkedIn , nbsp and Maria Flynn , president of Jobs for the Future For readers blocked by the NYTimes paywall , I paste in the conclusion of the : article Minouche Shafik , who is now the president of Columbia University , said : In the past , jobs were about muscles . Now they’re about brains , but in the future , they’ll be about the heart . 8221 The knowledge economy that we have lived in for decades emerged out of a goods

  • Treatment of PPD with SSRIs: Long-Term Benefits for Both Mother and Child

    Updated: 2024-02-21 00:00:12
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  • Largest-Ever Genetic Study of PPD: Correlations Between PPD and Other Psychiatric Disorders, Evidence of Involvement of GABAergic Systems

    Updated: 2024-02-20 00:00:03
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  • Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development

    Updated: 2024-02-19 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 19, 2024 Comparing how generative AI and living organisms generate meaning suggests future direction for AI development I want to pass on this open source opinion article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences by Karl Friston , Andy Clark , and other prominent figures who study generative models of sentient behavior in living organisms . nbsp They suggest a future direction for AI development that is very similar to the vision described in the previous MindBlog post which described a recent article by Venkatesh Rao . Here are the highlights and abstract of the article . Highlights

  • Gemini 1.5: Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context

    Updated: 2024-02-17 21:49:00
    : : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Saturday , February 17, 2024 Gemini 1.5 : Unlocking multimodal understanding across millions of tokens of context I pass on the PDF of an article from the Gemini Team at Google . Here's the abstract describing a working memory system vastly greater than our own , that can hold 10 million tokens a token' is roughly 0.75 words In this report , we present the latest model of the Gemini family , Gemini 1.5 Pro , a highly compute-efficient multimodal mixture-of-experts model capable of recalling and reasoning over fine-grained information from millions of tokens of context , including multiple long

  • How long has humanity been at war with itself?

    Updated: 2024-02-14 15:09:00
    : Deric's MindBlog This blog reports new ideas and work on mind , brain , behavior , psychology , and politics as well as random curious stuff . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 14, 2024 How long has humanity been at war with itself I would like to point MindBlog readers to an article by Deborah Barsky with the title of this post . The following clip provides relevant links to the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute . nbsp Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute , a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona , Spain , with the Open University of Catalonia UOC She is

  • The Art of Doing Nothing

    Updated: 2024-02-12 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 12, 2024 The Art of Doing Nothing Deep into the Juniper Cedar pollen allergy season in Austin TX , I'm being frustrated that I have so little energy to do things . It's as if my batteries can not muster more than a 10 charge . I try to tell myself that it's OK to just be to do nothing , and have not been very successful at this . nbsp So , I enjoyed stumbling upon a recent Guardian article , The art of doing nothing : have the Dutch found the answer to burnout culture whose URL I pass on to MindBlog readers . nbsp It describes the concept of niken , or the Dutch art of doing nothing

  • Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures

    Updated: 2024-02-09 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 09, 2024 Bodily maps of musical sensations across cultures Interesting work from Putkinen et al . open source Significance Music is inherently linked with the body . Here , we investigated how music's emotional and structural aspects influence bodily sensations and whether these sensations are consistent across cultures . Bodily sensations evoked by music varied depending on its emotional qualities , and the music-induced bodily sensations and emotions were consistent across the tested cultures . Musical features also influenced the emotional experiences and bodily sensations

  • Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment

    Updated: 2024-02-07 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Wednesday , February 07, 2024 Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment I pass on to MindBlog readers the abstract of a recent Behavioral and Brain Science article by Sijilmassi et al . titled Our Roots Run Deep’ : Historical Myths as Culturally Evolved Technologies for Coalitional Recruitment . Motivated readers can obtain a PDF of the article from me . nbsp One of the most remarkable manifestations of social cohesion in large-scale entities is the belief in a shared , distinct and ancestral past . Human communities around the world take pride in their ancestral

  • Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting

    Updated: 2024-02-05 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Monday , February 05, 2024 Functional human brain tissue produced by layering different neuronal types with 3D bioprinting A very important advance by Su-Chun Zhang and collaborators at the University of Wisconsin that moves studies of nerve cells connecting in nutrient dishes from two to three dimensions : nbsp Highlights Functional human neural tissues assembled by 3D bioprinting Neural circuits formed between defined neural subtypes Functional connections established between cortical-striatal tissues Printed tissues for modeling neural network impairment Summary Probing how human neural networks

  • Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds

    Updated: 2024-02-02 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 . Try the Dynamic Views at top of right column . Friday , February 02, 2024 Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds I have a splitting headache from having just watched a 27 minute long YouTube rapid fire lecture by Venkatesh Rao given last November at the Autonomous Worlds Assembly in Istanbul part of DevConnect , a major Ethereum ecosystem event His latest newsletter Towards a Metaphysics of Worlds” gives adds some notes and context , and gives a link to its slides As Rao : notes This may seem like a glimpse into a very obscure and nerdy subculture for many most of you , but I think something very important and interesting is brewing in this scene and

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