..... online links .....

 

Online Bookstores
http://scienceandreligionbookstore.com/

Books by Paul Ekman
http://www.paulekman.com/recent_books.php

Chapters from books
http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapbytl.html

E-books and Magaxines online
Scientific American Mind

http://www.sciammind.com/

New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/

Newswise
http://newswise.com/

Nature
www.nature.com

The Scientist: Magazine of the Life Sciences
http://www.the-scientist.com/

World Science
http://www.world-science.net/


Metapsychology
www.mentalhelp.net

Americal Scientist Online

http://www.americanscientist.org/

From 'All in the Mind' of ABC Radio National
www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/


Science Daily


Digital Journal.com

http://www.digitaljournal.com/


First Science.com

http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles.html

Interactive Web Resource: How the Human Brain Works

http://www.prq0.com/apps/redir.asp?link=
XcdfchhdCJ,ZcdiifcfadDG&oid=UcjjbCB&
iclitemid=YcdhajgbeDC&tid=WicfbbeCB

Index to Articles at New Scientist on the Human Brain
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/brain

Book Reviews
^
Daniel Dennett and
the Brick Wall of Consciousness
http://www.hudsonreview.com/frommSp06.pdf

^
Creeping Up on the Hard Problem
by Jeffrey Gray
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.
php?type=de&id=2814


^
What Emotions Reveal About the Mind and Artificial Intelligence by Craig Delancey
Oxford University Press, 2002
Review by Sam Brown on Sep 22nd 2005
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.
php?type=de&id=2828


^
From NEUROSCIENCE To NEUROLOGY
Neuroscience, Molecular Medicine, and the Therapeutic Transformation of Neurology by
Stephen Waxman
http://www.bh.com/apcatalog/?
ref=LSP1&isbn=0127389032

^ An Interpretation of Desire-- Essays in the Study of Sexuality
by John GagnonUniversity Of Chicago Press, 2004
Review by Gerda Wever-Rabehl, Ph.D. on Apr 19th 2005
Volume: 9, Number: 16--Metapsychology
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2617

^Philosophy and the Emotions by Anthony Hatzimoysis (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
Review by Dina Mendonça, Ph.D. on Jun 12th 2005
Volume: 9, Number: 23
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2691

^The Nature of the Mind An Introduction
by Peter Carruthers Routledge, 2003
Review by Harry Witzthum, Ph.D. on May 16th 2005
Volume: 9, Number: 20
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2647

^There's Something About Mary
Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument
by Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, and Daniel Stoljar (Editors)
MIT Press, 2004
Review by Christina Behme on Jun 1st 2005
Volume: 9, Number: 22
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2669

^Thinking About Feeling
Contemporary Philosophers on Emotions
by Robert C. Solomon (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2004
Review by Berel Dov Lerner, Ph.D. on Apr 21st 2005
Volume: 9, Number: 16
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=2618

^ Reference and the Rational Mind
by Kenneth A. Taylor
http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?
type=de&id=2689

^Philosophy and the Emotions
by Anthony Hatzimoysis (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2691

^Hidden Resources
Classical Perspectives on Subjectivity
by Dan Zahavi (Editor)
Imprint Academic, 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2709

^Self and Subjectivity
by Kim Atkins (Editor)
Blackwell, 2005
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2716

^THE ETHICAL BRAIN
By Michael S. Gazzaniga.
201 pp. Dana Press.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/19/
books/review/19SATELL.html?
8bu&emc=bu

^Boundaries of the Mind
The Individual in the Fragile Sciences
by Robert A. Wilson
Cambridge University Press, 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2643

^The Nature of the Mind
An Introduction
by Peter Carruthers
Routledge, 2003
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2647

^ There's Something About Mary
Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and
Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument
by Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, and
Daniel Stoljar (Editors)
MIT Press, 2004
http://mentalhelp.net/books/
books.php?type=de&id=2669


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Online Articles
^
Scientists in Italy say they have discovered that the grapes used to make some of the most popular red wines contain high levels of the sleep hormone melatonin. (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture DOI 10.1002/jsfa2537).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060616135307.htm

^New research indicates that shy people may be more sensitive to all sorts of stimuli, not just frightening ones.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/613/3?etoc

^ Language has metaphors that express time in terms of space.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/615/2?etoc

^ Dangerous bilogical effects of nanoparticles
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/615/1?etoc

^ An Adaptive Interface For Controlling The Computer By Thought
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060614113301.htm

^ Carnegie Mellon Researchers Teach Computers To Perceive Three Dimensions In 2-D Images
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060614091016.htm

^ Cortical substrates for exploratory decisions in humans
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v441/n7095/abs/nature04766.html

^ If there's really just a single language circuit, how do bilingual people make sure it's only used for one language at a time?
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/608/2?etoc

^Chronic Neuropathic, 'Phantom' Pain Comes From Affected Nerve And Spinal Cord, Not Brain
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060608132411.htm

^ Analog Behavior of Neurons
http://scienceweek.com/2006/sw060616-4.htm

^ The brain needs sleep before and after learning new things, regardless of the type of memory.
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/51962

^ Researchers have demonstrated that male angry faces are a priority for visual processing -- particularly for male observers.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060607085104.htm

^ Susan Blackmore explains why what goes on in our heads is a continuing puzzle http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article702961.ece

^ Researchers have found that the neurotransmitter serotonin, known to affect many behaviors, also appears to promote lasting, quality sleep
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060605200708.htm

^ Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?
http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10%2E1371%2Fjournal%2Epmed%2E0030240

^ Scientists at the University of Manchester have for the first time uncovered how the brain cells (or neurons) that keep us alert during the day, switch off after we eat.
http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta/news.cfm?cit_id=836968&FAArea1=customWidgets.content_view_1

^ Prosopagnosia or face blindness
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/602/1?etoc

^ Scientists have used data from scans of 183 subjects to identify brain areas that consistently become active in a variety of cognitive tasks, such as reading, learning a rhythm or analyzing a picture.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060531165250.htm

^ Striking the right balance between excitation and inhibition
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/si-str053006.php

^ brain areas that consistently become active in a variety of cognitive tasks, such as reading, learning a rhythm or analyzing a picture.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/wuso-mpi053006.php

^ how different regions of the cerebral cortex process uncertain information and integrate it into decision making.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/cp-wwc052506.php

^ Amnesiac Study Offers Insights into How Working Memory Works
http://origin.www.upenn.edu/pennnews/article.php?id=963

^ Nature Offers Guidance On Organising Dynamic Networks
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060527094650.htm

^ how brain cells communicate
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060526090336.htm

^ rapid forms of perceptual decision making
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n6/abs/nrn1933.html

^ Why sex matters for neuroscience
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n6/abs/nrn1909.html

^ The biology of dread
http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v7/n6/full/nrn1948.html

^ Searching for the soul in the machine
http://istresults.cordis.europa.eu/index.cfm/section/news/tpl/article/BrowsingType/Features/ID/81933

^ scientific, social and technological aspects of memory
http://tinyurl.com/e64nn

^ brain-computer interfacing and Google
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/daily/23368/

^ pairs perform better than individuals even when each individual thinks the other is a hindrance
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2006/pr060515.cfm

^ Cognitive neuroscience and the law
http://tinyurl.com/gfv44

^ Timing Is Everything in Brain Development
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/508/2?etoc

^ Mind and Dark matter
http://noeticcenter.tripod.com/

^ Trauma and Storytelling
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/mind/

^Brain Transplants and the Future
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/incon/

^Dread prompts pain in the brain
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060501/full/060501-9.html

^The Brain's Motivation Station
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060504070834.htm

^Free will - you only think you have it
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19025504.000?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19025504.000

^A Framework for the Unification the Behavioral Sciences
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Gintis-12052005/Referees/Gintis-12052005_preprint.pdf

^Love special: What is this thing called love?
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/love/mg19025491.200-love-special-what-is-this-thing-called-love.html

^Other Articles on Love Special in New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/love?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=sr_love

^Watching The Brain Switch Off 'Self'
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060430004451.htm

^Is being right-handed all for the greater good?
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=000632B2-2E6E-1417-AE6E83414B7F0000

^neurons that encode the value of different goods
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/hms-asr041906.php

^Quick thinking
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7087/full/440999a.html
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7087/abs/nature04610.html

^People with Near Death Experiences Can Differ in Sleep-Wake Control
http://www.aan.com/press/press/index.cfm?fuseactionfiltered=release.view&release=384

^New Findings On The Brain's Response To Costly Mistakes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060412093300.htm

^How The Brain Recognizes Faces
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060409153926.htm

^Quantum Mechanics and the Brain
http://scienceweek.com/2006/sw060414-2.htm

^Male and female brains show differences in how they respond to emotion.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/407/1?etoc

^Specific Mechanisms May Not Exist for Facial Recognition
http://explore.georgetown.edu/news/?ID=14373

^A novel theory explains why the brain craves information and seeks it through the senses
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/50770

^A new study reveals that patterns of brain activity before people even see a problem predict whether they will solve it with or without such an insight,
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-04/afps-aft040506.php

^Brain Compensates for Aging by Becoming Less “Specialized”
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-04-03-01.all.html

^Conscious and Unconscious Memory Linked in Storing New Information
http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/06-04-03-02.all.html

^Study challenges prayers for the sick
Clinical trial of prayer draws fire from critics.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060327/full/060327-16.html

^Powerful new tool for studying brain development
http://www.stjudebgem.org/
http://www.stjude.org/media/0,2561,453_2816_20523,00.html

^ Asleep Or Awake We Retain Memory
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060329085308.htm

^Growth Hormone is Made in the Brain
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1426

^A conversation with Professor V.S. Ramachandran, world-renowned explorer of the human brain, on neuroscience, philosophy, consciousness and beyond.
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2306/stories/20060407005400400.htm

^How Does The Brain Know What The Right Hand Is Doing?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060322140608.htm

^Sixth sense can come from within
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060320/full/060320-5.html

^Quantifiers and Temporal Ontology
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/115/457/75?etoc

^Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists
http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=060320&cat=frontpage&st=frontpagedyehard_woman_memory_060320&src=abc

^Interview with Daniel Dennett on his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/InterviewTypeDetail/assetid/50317;jsessionid=aaabFDCIXMjGwj

^Memory aided by meaning
How to get your brain geared up to remember.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060220/full/060220-19.html

^How The Brain Sees People In Motion
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060319182604.htm

^Brain-scanning Technology Reveals How We Process Brands And Products
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/03/060318144712.htm

^Research Team Identifies Cause of Memory Loss
http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/mar06/memory.html

^The unified theory of repression
http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Erdelyi-04022004/Referees/

^On the Neural Code
http://scienceweek.com/2006/sw060317-2.htm

^Consciousness Continues To Baffle Psychoanalysts
Feelings are not Emotions
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/41/5/13?etoc

^Hunger hormone tied to learning
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/23132/

^Instant replay may help to mould memories
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060206/full/060206-13.html

^Personal identity veers to the right hemisphere
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060211/bob9.asp

^NewSientist special Report on Robotics
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/robots

^Robot special: Almost human
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/mech-tech/mg18925371.800

^Brain electrical activity and subjective experience during altered states of
consciousness: ganzfeld and hypnagogic states.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12433389&dopt=Abstract

^Medically induced comas
http://www.sptimes.com/2006/01/30/Floridian/Prescription_coma.shtml

^First effect, then cause
Investigators: Vilayanur Ramachandran and Edward Hubbard
10 November 2003
by Laura Spinney
http://tinyurl.com/ul50

^
The Marco Polo of Neuroscience: V.S Ramachandran
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1358883.htm#

^Robot Demonstrates Self Awareness
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051219/awarerobot_tec_print.html

^Power of the mind can lessen chronic pain
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18825304.700.html

^How brainpower can help you cheat old age
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18825301.300.html

^Neuropathic pain is a debilitating chronic pain condition with limited treatment options
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438923a.html

^On Neural Reorganisation by Experience
http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw051216-4.htm

^How the brain builds its image of the body
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,3605,1653018,00.html

^'Copying' nerves broken in autism
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4491538.stm

^The Emotional Brain: Part1 -- Sexual Desire
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1514225.htm#
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1407052.htm#

^The Emotional Brain: Part 2 -- Anger
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1518815.htm#

^The Emotional Brain: Part 3-- Jealousy
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1524479.htm#

^The Emotional Brain: Part 4 -- Joy
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1529824.htm#

^The art of healing trauma
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2006/1635052.htm#

^Plastic Brains and the Neuroscience of Psychotherapy
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2003/996032.htm#

^Meditation and the Mind: Science Meets Buddhism
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2003/943369.htm#

^Epilepsy: The 'falling sickness'.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2005/1506832.htm#

^Mind and Matter - Together at Last?
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2004/1230136.htm#

^Mind and Memory
http://tinyurl.com/c8je4

^Meditation builds up the brain
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/dn8317.html

^Science at the Crossroads, By Dalai Lama
http://www.phayul.com/news/article

^Brain and simple steps you can take to improve yours
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9698939/site/newsweek/

^Sleep and the Brain
http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw051118-3.htm

^The robot that thinks like you
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18825241.700

^Neurobiology of Addiction
http://www.nature.com/neuro/focus/addiction/index.html

^Schizophrenics Better at Discerning Illusions
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000C8AA5-D4DD-135E-94DD83414B7F0000

^Rapid eye movement sleep behaviour disorder (RBD)
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v437/n7063/edsumm/e051027-02.html

^The influence of culture: holistic versus analytic perception
http://tinyurl.com/droux

^Your Brain Cells May “Know” More than You Let on by Your Behavior
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/515337/

^Computer users move themselves with the mind
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050926/full/050926-5.html

^Your brain can't handle the lies
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsliar0922,0,2813317.story

^Revelations from the Unconscious
Can vegetative and minimally conscious states expose the cerebral substrates of awareness?
http://www.the-scientist.com/2005/9/12/17/1

^Stiff upper lips may impair memories
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725175.800

^The evolving human brain-- Trio of studies hints at genetic changes that may have spurred human brain evolution
http://www.the-scientist.com/news/20050909/01

^How gifted brains work
http://www.world-science.net/exclusives/050902_intelfrm.htm

^Idle brain invites dementia -- Researchers say daydreaming may cause changes that lead to the onset of Alzheimer's disease
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsalz254396781aug25,0,1676238.story

^The Particular–Universal Distinction: A Dogma of Metaphysics?
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/114/455/565?etoc

^Why Be Rational?
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/114/455/509?etoc

^What if scientists could precisely measure when life begins and ends?
http://www.slate.com/id/2120872/

^Trustworthy but not lust-worthy: context-specific effects of facial resemblance
http://tinyurl.com/7ct4g

^Nasal spray makes people more likely to place faith in another person
http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050531/full/050531-4.html

^How our hands help us learn
http://tinyurl.com/9qj5t

^11 steps to a better brain
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg18625011.900

^Psychologist explains the neurochemistry behind romance
http://www.physorg.com/news90509995.html

^Repressed memory is cultural creation ?
http://www.physorg.com/news91732798.html

^Me, Myself and I The Secrets of Multiple Personality Disorder
http://www.mental-health-abc.com/Me_Myself_and_I_The_Secrets_of_Multiple_Personality_Disorder.html?gclid=CK7tiMbMzYoCFQk5TQodzERedg

^Personality Disorders and Emotional Health
http://emotional.health.ivillage.com/personalitydisorders/index.cfm?ivNPA=1&sky=ggl|hco|personalitydisorders|em|PPC5C9A|c

^Brain imaging identifies best memorization strategies
http://www.physorg.com/news73843946.html

For computer scientists exploring face recognition, the question is 'who?'
http://www.physorg.com/news90084297.html

Problem forgetting may be a natural mechanism gone awry
http://www.physorg.com/news91112955.html

The evolution of intelligence, and why our brains have shrunk
http://www.physorg.com/news83410847.html

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Understanding Early Brain Development
http://www.physorg.com/news80400003.html

Researchers strive to make robotic systems more decisive
http://www.physorg.com/news72111186.html

What happens when the mind wanders?
http://www.physorg.com/news88355359.html

Flavanols in cocoa may offer benefits to the brain
http://www.physorg.com/news91027794.html

Probing Question: How accurate are snap judgments?
http://www.physorg.com/news83432205.html

Memory as Motivator
http://www.physorg.com/news73578147.html

Your Sleeping Position Reveals Clues to Your Personality
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/127743/Your_Sleeping_Position_Reveals_Clues_to_Your_Personality

Future Human Evolution
http://www.whatwemaybe.org/