Neuroscience
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008This title would have been funnier if this had been Hallowe’en, but we’re close enough to the holiday that I’m still going to use it.
Anyway, I was joking with Sarah that the future of computer user interface is brain waves and that we needed to get one of those multi-wire caps that capture these signals […]
See? I told you it was all in your head
Monday, January 29th, 2007A small study (32 patients) finds that patients who have suffered brain injury in the region of the insula are more likely to find it easy to quit smoking than patients with other types of brain injuries.
Interestingly, this region of the brain also seems to be the one that differentiates cheapskates from big spenders.
