In a recent review article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Antonio Rangel, Colin Camerer and Read Montague suggest a framework for neuroeconomic research. Indeed, the very core of its idea is simple, but not simplistic. After reading the article, I think it will provide a useful reference for future research into neuroeconomics, aka value-based decision making. [...]
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A neuroeconomic framework
Posted in decision making, emotions, genetics, imaging genetics, multi-modal imaging, neuroeconomics, neurotransmitters on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Imaging genetics videos up
Posted in imaging genetics on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The third annual conference on imaging genetics was held at Irvine this January. Neither Thomas nor I could go this year, but people tell me it was just as great as previous years. Now you can tell for yourself: videos of all the presentations can now be watched via this web-site. Among the speakers are [...]
New journal: Brain imaging and behavior
Posted in imaging genetics, multi-modal imaging, neuroimaging, neuroscience on August 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not every day that we see a new journal emerging. However, Springer now launches a new journal called Brain Imaging and Behavior. According to the mission statement, the goal of the journal is to
publish innovative, clinically-relevant research using neuroimaging approaches to enhance the understanding of neural mechanisms underlying disorders of cognition, affect and motivation, [...]
Gene-environment interactions and the brain
Posted in development, genetics, imaging genetics, neuroscience, people, psychiatry on July 25, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt [interview with Moffitt here on npr] made quite a splash in 2002 when they published the paper “Role of Genotype in the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children” in Science. They reported that maltreated children would differ in the development of antisocial personality and violent behaviour depending upon whether or [...]
Genes, brain, and cognition: Special issue of Cognition
Posted in cognitive science, genetics, imaging genetics, review on June 15, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Genetics is increasingly making itself felt in the word of neuroscience. Labs all over the world are trying to understand the role played the the genome in the development of the brain, and impressive results are published each month highlighting how genes are expressed in the working brain, influencing learning and behaviour.
The holy grail of [...]
Ageing gene expression
Posted in Ageing, dementia, genetics, imaging genetics on June 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
As we age, genes are expressed differently throughout our body. The most obvious examples are the hormonal changes seen in adolescence and in the menopause. In many models of how genes are expressed during older age, one of the prevalent models – the programmed ageing model – claims that ageing is caused by genetically programmed [...]
The genes of your mind
Posted in cognitive science, genetics, imaging genetics, multi-modal imaging, neuroimaging on May 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Gene-hyped as we are here at BrainEthics, I'm mentioning a few articles that are highlighting the relationship between genes, brain and mind. As neuroscience deals with the wet matter of the mind – the fatty, information-processing and massively energy consuming body part we call the brain – we must also realize that the basic building [...]
