The Neurocritic

 image from Google Scholar Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is the founder of Trivedi Global, Inc. , a provider of health and wellness products and services . His Google Scholar profile lists 795 pu...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2024/08/backed-by-science-building-lucrative.html

  Guruji Mahendra Kumar Trivedi is an “Enlightened and miraculous being” with a Google Scholar page , an h-index1 of 62, and 12,031 citations of his work. Most of these are self-citations...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-miraculous-guru-with-h-index-of-62.html

I joined an online dating site a few months ago.1 Besides being asked about my sun, moon, and rising signs (?), I was puzzled by the following question.2 My love language? I'm supposed ...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-are-love-languages-so-popular-when.html

 ...TO ANOTHER PLATFORM.   Hi, it's been a while. I haven't written anything this year. My last post was December 31, 2022. The main reason is that I've had to deal with more loss and g...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2023/05/im-thinking-about-moving-this-blog.html

As 2022 draws to a close, the SNL Trend Forecasters have agreed to divulge their predictions for the most — and the least — exciting research fads for the New Year. THE NEUROCRITIC: How d...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/12/neuroscience-trend-forecasters.html

Just in time for Halloween, I had a hideous surgery to repair a fractured elbow. This entailed receiving a nerve block that made my hand feel like a dead appendage, which was quite spooky ind...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/10/frankensteins-hand.html

 “I am dead.”   In terms of possible delusions in living human beings, Le délire des négations — the nihilistic delusion that one is dead — evokes the most harrowing existence i...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/09/and-then-plank-in-reason-broke.html

The more you study the brain, the more unknowable it becomes. The level of complexity is baffling, and this is true whether the brain belongs to a human or a crab .1 The latest uptick in huma...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-human-protein-atlas-neuropeptide.html

"The self is the psychological counterpart of the default mode functionality of the brain." (Scalabrini et al., 2021 ). The self studying how "The Self" is represented and constructed by th...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/07/extracting-reliable-neurobiological.html

It's 2022, and the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) has just issued a belated apology because two of their past Presidents published papers on “aversion therapies” ...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/06/abct-apologizes-for-past-support-of-gay.html

The Washington Post used this picture of a saline-filled 280-channel Geodesic Head Web 1 to illustrate a new wearable device that aims to enhance slow wave sleep (SWS). The device delivers l...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/05/this-device-may-not-nudge-your-brain.html

> “Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also > a romance with one’s own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive > in a long-distance re...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/04/nostalgia-and-its-analgesia.html

CRYING ROBOT , by Mr.A   WHAT IS 'MACHINE YEARNING'? INTENSE LONGING EXHIBITED BY CARTOON ROBOTS?  OR A CLEVER PUN THAT DESCRIBES A NETWORK ANALYSIS OF PROLONGED GRIEF SYM...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/03/machine-yearning-sad-robots-and.html

MODIFIED FROM FRANJIC ET AL. (2022) . Cross-species comparison shows transcriptomic signatures of neurogenesis in the hippocampus of adult mouse, pig, and monkey — but not human. Does the ...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-ongoing-debate-about-hippocampal.html

If you're relatively young and healthy, is a mild case of COVID-19 really “mild”, like a cold or the flu? Are you still at risk for long COVID — a persistent state of fatigue, anxiety,...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2022/01/vortioxetine-for-post-covid-brain-fog.html

The second calendar year of COVID surges to a close, and hospital personnel continue their frenetic pace of caring for the infected (most of whom are defiantly unvaccinated). For the rest of...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/12/your-own-personal-dbs.html

Fig. 1 (Fernandes et al., 2017) . Domains related to ‘precision psychiatry’. “ The right drug for the right patient ” was a catch phrase in the early years of the personalized medi...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/11/is-precision-psychiatry-realistic.html

The mythology surrounding reverse inter-metamorphosis , a delusional syndrome that involves transformation into a beast, has frightened and fascinated for hundreds of years. A special instanc...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/10/xylological-delusions-of-being-tree.html

  A fascinating case study from 1907 describes the self-reported sensory “taste” experiences evoked by hearing specific words, names, or sounds (Pierce, 1907 ). The subject was a young...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/09/a-curious-case-of-auditory-gustatory.html

Here's the latest alarming COVID news to distract you from fires and hurricanes. {I'm very sorry if you are experiencing either of these disasters personally. Donations ideas: El Dorado Communit...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/08/reading-aloud-without-mask-olfactory.html

WE GET QUESTIONS! Q – “I survived a mild case of COVID. Should I be worried about the volume of gray matter in olfactory-related structures in the left hemisphere of my brain?” A –...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/07/why-would-nasally-transferred.html

Feeling starved for affection after 15 months of pandemic-mandated social distancing? Ready to look for a suitable romantic partner by attending an in-person speed dating event? Just recline...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-rs-fc-fmri-law-of-attraction-ie.html

A fascinating new paper proposes that dreams evolved to help the brain generalize, which improves its performance on day to day tasks. Incorporating a concept from deep learning, Erik Hoel (...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/05/did-dreams-evolve-to-transcend.html

Andy Warhol's collection of dental models   Pop artist Andy Warhol excelled in turning the everyday and the mundane into art. During the last 13 years of his life, Warhol put thousands o...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2020/08/hoarders-and-collectors.html

Bell (1985) Can a set of equations predict and quantify complex emotions resulting from financial decisions made in an uncertain environment? An influential paper by David E. Bell consider...

https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2021/03/overinterpreting-computational-models.html