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This is a new conference on comb... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics This is a new conference on combining the knowledge from genetics, neuroimaging and behavioural science. A brief look at the program is enough: I’m going!7th ... Read on »

If you have read Thomas’ fine in... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics If you have read Thomas’ fine introduction to Ahmad Hariri’s work on the link between gene expression, serotonin re-uptake and emotion, you may be interested in hearing more a ... Read on »

As discussed before here on the ... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics As discussed before here on the blog, imaging studies by Josh Greene, Jorge Moll and others have demonstrated that emotional responses play a pivotal role in forming moral jud ... Read on »

I thought it would be a good thi... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I thought it would be a good thing as a host to welcome you to this new blog. We discovered it while travelling through the blogosphere. So why take the chance and change the ... Read on »

Click on the image to see full s... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Click on the image to see full sizeWhat happens in the brain when we become conscious of something? What processes and structures are responsible for becoming aware? Is consci ... Read on »

Neuroscience affects the way we ... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Neuroscience affects the way we think about ourselves. It affects how we think of normal and abnormal minds. It has influence on how people are judged according to law, whethe ... Read on »

Synaesthesia is a rare condition... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Synaesthesia is a rare condition where people experience some percepts as a different sensory modality than the one they normally belong to - e.g., numbers as colours, or tone ... Read on »

From time to time I receive emai... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics From time to time I receive emails from people who have relatives or other loved ones that suffer from a neurological or psychiatric condition. I respond to these the best tha ... Read on »

You probably knew this already, ... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics You probably knew this already, but now it has been proved: Musicians are different from you and me. Mounting evidence suggests that playing an instrument will literally chang ... Read on »

Below I discuss the continuity o... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Below I discuss the continuity of the human and chimp brains. I also briefly mentioned the much exiting research being done these years on chimp behaviour. One of the primatol ... Read on »

For many years researchers in co... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics For many years researchers in cognitive neurscience have known that episodic memory does not work like a tape recorder or a computer hard drive. Recollection of events is not ... Read on »

Show my your amygdala size and I... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Show my your amygdala size and I’ll tell you who you are! In a study by Omura, Constable & Canli in the November 2005 issue of NeuroReport (see abstract + links below), the si ... Read on »

Neuroethics is slowly beginning ... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Neuroethics is slowly beginning to get some attention from the non-academic press. One of the persons responsible for this emerging interest is Martha Farah who has written a ... Read on »

The journal Science has an issue... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The journal Science has an issue dedicated to brain development and brain plasticity. Models of the brain have changed from viewing plasticity as something occurring only at t ... Read on »

A special issue of Anatomy and E... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics A special issue of Anatomy and Embryology is out, dedicated to the issue of brain structure vs. function. It has several interesting articles, such as the developmental dynami ... Read on »

There is no doubt that there are... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics There is no doubt that there are hemispheric differences in the brain. We know that in most people, the left hemisphere is dominant for language production. Damage to the left ... Read on »

Every year renowned literary age... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Every year renowned literary agent John Brockman asks a group of prominent scientists a question and posts their answers at his web-site The Edge. This years question is “what ... Read on »

How are economic decisions made?... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics How are economic decisions made? How and why are we social? According to the traditional economic , humans are rational and self-regarding beings. Not so, says recent advances ... Read on »

In the growing field of cosmetic... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In the growing field of cosmetic neurology, an approach that seeks to enhance the brain’s workings, one branch seeks to develop new drugs that not only help those suffering fr ... Read on »

While we’re at it with cosmetic ... by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics While we’re at it with cosmetic neurology, there is also a nice article by Chatterjee freely available in Neurology. I think the conclusion in this paper says it all:In this p ... Read on »

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