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Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognition, and Learning

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“The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.” — Erich Fromm
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The civil servants at CDC, NIH, and FDA are invaluable to our national health, emergency response, and economy, both for their dedicated efforts and deep experience. Their jobs are worth far more than $25K. Don't take the buyout.
Carlos del Rio@CarlosdelRio79 Mar 2025
HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its workers as Trump administration continues cuts pbs.org/newshour/politics/hh… The disruption this will cause to CDC and other HHS agencies like NIH and FDA, will create  irreconcilable damage to public  health and science.

HHS makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its workers as Trump administration continues cuts

Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were...

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🚨#BREAKING: Search results for ‘Why do my eyes hurt?’ and ‘My eyes hurt’ have exploded after the total solar eclipse occurred – at Seagoville, TX
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Newly identified genes for depression may lead to new treatments sciencebeta.com/205-depressi…
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Scientists @salkinstitute uncover key brain pathway mediating panic disorder symptoms. sciencebeta.com/neural-pathw…
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Despite the fact that #PanicDisorder is classified as an anxiety disorder, there are significant differences between the two.
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For example, panic causes many physical symptoms such as shortness of breath, pounding heartbeat, sweating, and nausea, whereas #anxiety does not.
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Newly discovered genetic mutation protects against Parkinson's disease and offers hope for new therapies. sciencebeta.com/shlp2-gene-v…
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Individuals with this mutation are half as likely to develop the disease as those who do not carry it. The variant form of the protein is relatively rare and is found primarily in people of European descent.
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Growth hormone found to influence regulation of anxiety via somatostatin neurons. sciencebeta.com/somatostatin…
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New coding mechanism that transfers information from perception to memory identified sciencebeta.com/retinotopic-…
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Prior to this work, the classic understanding of brain organization was that perceptual regions of the brain represent the world "as it is," with the brain's visual cortex representing the external world based on how light falls on the retina, "retinotopically."
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However, according to the co-authors, this explanation fails to take into account that as information is encoded or recalled, these regions may in fact, share a common code in the brain.
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New study found no scientific evidence for Chapman's premise that people who choose partners that speak their love language, or learn to speak it, will have more successful relationships. #lovelanguages sciencebeta.com/no-evidence-…
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Enlarged spaces in infant brains linked to higher risk of autism, sleep problems, @UNC researchers find. sciencebeta.com/expanded-per…
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While some argue that the use of fire, and later discovery of cooking, provided enough nutrition for our larger-brained predecessors to become dominant, a recent theory suggests a different spark: fermentation. sciencebeta.com/fermention-e…
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Deep brain stimulation in thalamus central lateral nucleus revives cognitive abilities after traumatic brain injury sciencebeta.com/brain-stimul…
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Early-stage stem cell therapy trial shows promise for treating progressive multiple sclerosis. sciencebeta.com/ms-stem-cell…
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Autism-associated gene appears to alter brain cell identity in the hippocampus. sciencebeta.com/kdm5a-hippoc…
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Study finds women with #depression have 20% lower taurine concentration in the hippocampus sciencebeta.com/taurine-hipp…
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