Archive for January, 2007

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« 13 January 2007 | 7:26 | humor | No Comments »

Following in the footsteps several other science blogs, here’s a library card for smallgraymatters.com:



trendspotting the fMRI literature

« 8 January 2007 | 23:43 | fmri, academics, methodology | No Comments »

Select a few neuroimaging papers at random and you’re likely to come across a handful of statements in the introduction to the effect that the topic under study is of “increasing interest”. At conferences and research talks, you’ll sometimes see speakers invoke a familiar kind of figure that looks something like this:

That’s the number of […]



the full monty on frontal love syndrome

« 7 January 2007 | 23:09 | humor | No Comments »

Mind Hacks offers up this humorous vignette for your entertainment:
There’s a lovely typo in a 1976 paper from the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry that reports on a study about epilepsy after surgery. Check out the last sentence of the abstract …
I’ll spare you the suspense (but read the abstract anyway!): an undisclosed subset […]