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A new study by @weijsmarieke, @jasmine_ho_, @marteroel & @BignaLen shows that people who want a perfectly healthy leg amputated still experience the "rubber foot illusion", suggesting "a body representation that depends more on bottom-up signals in BID."
https://t.co/BUOxxiNfnA
I'm calling bullshit on this image of 'Your Hi-Tech brain'
(from here: https://t.co/pdm1hY17a7)
'Lucy' (Australopithecus afarensis) had an ape-like brain, but prolonged brain growth like humans
https://t.co/0GGgTcDwbI
Human Brain Atlas poster for download
https://t.co/zWl98mTI6P via @dawso007
Halloween is approaching so I'm re-watching some of my favourite horror films.
Tonight: Eyes Without a Face (1960). This creepy classic has a very gruesome face transplant scene, and has inspired John Carpenter, John Woo, and Billy Idol
A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy - excerpted from a new book, 'Psychiatry and Its Discontents', by Andrew Scull https://t.co/fC9cQO5hjz
Antibiotic treatment alleviates Alzheimer's disease symptoms in male mice https://t.co/XWLVgVO9j4 Open access J. Exp. Med. paper, co-senior authored by @gilbertjacka https://t.co/tCWKkE3RlD
Today's Google doodle celebrates the 136th birthday of Greek cytopathologist Georgios Papanikolaou, inventor of the 'Pap smear' that detects cervical cancer
Stimulating and/or recording from the brain in conscious patients circa 1930s (L) and today (R)
Images via @Neurophilosophy https://t.co/2wMZ4BmjFp and @NoroBlog https://t.co/TzOFJnSwuy