Cognitive Neuroscience

How Do Placebos Relieve Pain?

Wray Herbert | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Executive Function, Distraction, Placebo, Cognitive Neuroscience, Expectation, Cognitive Therapy, Placebo Drugs, Placebo Effect, Placebo Pain Relief, Science News
Wray Herbert

Scientists and doctors have been studying placebos for more than half a century. These inert "sugar pills" remain highly controversial, yet they are widely used in clinical treatment today -- especially in the area of pain management.

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Compassion And The Shadow

John Stanley | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Eco-Theology, Mirror Neurons, Eco-Buddhism Project, The Shock Doctrine, Green Faith, Climate Change, Eco-Buddhism, Religion and Science, Humanity, Climate Change Denial, Carl Jung, Buddhism, Compassion, Cognitive Neuroscience, Religion News
John Stanley

As climate chaos disasters unfold, we might witness a sustained rise in collective compassion, leading to genuine international cooperation and unity of the human species. But there's also our shadow.

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Obama and the Oil Spill: In the Abstract

Christopher Chabris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Neuroscience, Cognitive-Neuroscience, President Obama, 9/11, Abstract Words, Hurricane Katrina, BP Oil Spill, Concrete Words, President Bush, President Reagan, Barack Obama, President Clinton, Communication, Healthy Living News
Christopher Chabris

The preference for the concrete over the abstract is a universal feature of the human mind, not a conservative or liberal foible. President Obama should consider this fact carefully when crafting his messages.

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Preparing Society for the Cognitive Age

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.17.2011

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Alvaro Fernandez

Groundbreaking cognitive neuroscience research has occurred over the last 20 years -- without parallel growth of consumer awareness and appropriate professional dissemination.

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