Welcome to a collection of my science writing, mainly about brains and behavior. Here you'll find brief descriptions of and links to the complete articles.
Featured articles
A lifeline for addicts
Restoring the brain’s flexibility may help addicts act on their desire to quit.
Scientific American Mind March 2013
Rational thought vs. generous intuitions
Our first impulse is to cooperate — until we think about it logically, a study in Nature finds.
Scientific American Mind March 2013
2012 World Congress for Psychiatric Genetics
A quiet observer in Hamburg
More than 600 researchers gathered in Hamburg, Germany, from 14-18 October to discuss new findings on the genetic roots of psychiatric disorders. These meeting reports were filed for Schizophrenia Research Forum.
Baby steps for sequencing in schizophrenia
Animal models for psychiatric disorders
Schizophrenia GWAS make waves
Phenotype and function in schizophrenia genomics
Right before your eyes
A lousy lab meeting leads to a way to link protein sequence to function, thousands of variants at a time. This new method, and a similar one for RNA, reveal these molecules in startling detail.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011.
The banner image above shows manganese dendrites found in stone, which recall the dendrites in the brain that I usually think about. The image appears courtesy of Dr. Hans Hermann, who says that the rock currently sits in his office in Zurich, Switzerland.
