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Learning about learning

This week I attended back-to-back conferences on learning and the brain. The first was held at my favorite art-place, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. I got a few tips on how to space my study hours and what not to say about “learning styles.” You can see my giant story on it on [...]

Posted 09 May 2010 † nickyp § Brain science § Learning ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Eric Kandel on the Year in Neuroscience

Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel sees promise in a new strain of genetics and psychotherapy, if not new drugs, for psychiatric illnesses, in a transcript we posted on the Dana site this week of a conversation during the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting this year. 
If we get markers for most psychiatric illnesses, and we can [...]

Posted 29 December 2008 † nickyp § Brain science ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,