Neuroskeptic

The "Eleven Dimensional" Brain? Topology of Neural Networks http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/07/17/eleven-dimensional-neural-networks/#.WW0dmnGQyUk … An interesting paper but no extra dimensions. New post!pic.twitter.com/VDUMY5BjNk

HuffPo article claims that someone was "born with second sight" as "an empath." Dopamine is involved. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-empaths-survival-guide-the-book-all-sensitive_us_5964f646e4b0911162fc2f0a … huFFS postpic.twitter.com/fCnrFZeuiF

"According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there are many parts to the brain." http://www.chopratreatmentcenter.com/blog/2017/07/16/neuroplasticity-addiction-affects-brain-and-hope-healing/ … Well, if they say so!pic.twitter.com/aRnO2VHZXA

Is General Intelligence Little More Than the Speed of Higher-Order Processing? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703620  To g or not to g. Symphony in g majorpic.twitter.com/HFlxfNC8nN

"Interspecies co-sleeping has been trivialized in the literature... receiving little attention from psychology" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28639123  pic.twitter.com/Y0Rx6zarHG

We talk about a "right to health", but do we also need a "right to be ill"? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28710655 pic.twitter.com/gtWPiY0o0f

Psychology of cults: what factors contribute to joining or leaving? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28711763?dopt=Abstract … Paper out today is oddly topical #rkellypic.twitter.com/2ZJlFlQEbo

I'm posting on the Blue Brain "cliques" algebraic topology paper http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fncom.2017.00048/full … What do people think? Any graph theorists read it?pic.twitter.com/BeOgKRrPfg

OK twitter, time for my first ever tweet thread, on our new paper! With @camillalnord @vincentvalton: http://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2017/07/13/JNEUROSCI.3592-16.2017 … 1/xpic.twitter.com/oGaA9pnTsJ

Dopamine, the explanation for everything. "A wizard did it"? No. Dopamine did it. http://tns.thenews.com.pk/dreams-branded-education/#.WWvA5HGQyUk …pic.twitter.com/EfTJnseJwT

fMRI: "there is a systematic dependence of the false positive rate on the resampling parameter" http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00345/full … uh-oh... @wandedobpic.twitter.com/KMGEInMAwo

What do Archives of Sexual Behaviour and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic have in common? http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/07/15/apologize-derpy-paper …pic.twitter.com/octU8QTk6M

Do men overestimate women's interest in sex? Or do women underreport their sexual intentions? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28703603  Sexy self reportpic.twitter.com/5mI8Q9PQxe

Case report of a boy whose organs were flipped left-to-right (situs inversus) but his brain was normally lateralized https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28709112?dopt=Abstract …pic.twitter.com/v5GKXIP4Ob

A "quantum" smartphone app that changes your heartbeat via "subtle energy" from 1 meter away http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/acm.2016.0198 … a quantum of absurditypic.twitter.com/NvhTnfDEtK