From Peer Support to Psychedelics: Psychiatry’s Co-Optation
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then if they can’t kill you, they co-opt you. Co-optation here refers to the…
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then if they can’t kill you, they co-opt you. Co-optation here refers to the…
The strange history of a persistent myth.
medchemica.com - Accelerating the life sciences ecosystem MedChemica Bucket List Accelerating the life sciences ecosystem The…
Two years ago, a paper by Swedish neuroscientist Anders Eklund and colleagues caused a media storm. The paper, Cluster Failure…
eNeuro editorial: Scientific Rigor or Rigor Mortis? Christophe Bernard, editor in chief of eNeuro, discusses in this editorial…
Flashing lights might cure Alzheimer’s, according to Nature. There is no paradox: being obese is definitively bad for you.
If you spend some time browsing the science section of a publication like the New York Times you’ll likely run across an image…
If you spend some time browsing the science section of a publication like the New York Times you’ll likely run across an image…
This is the third instalment of ‘The case for Open Research’ series of blogs exploring the problems with Scholarly…
Cet article fait suite à la publication, il y a quelques mois, dans Nature Human Behaviour d’un article intitulé « A Manifesto…
Journals can issue correction and errata notices to notify readers of errors and, as necessary, revise text and data in…
A new study, published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, questions previous findings that specific brain regions are…
Brain activation during challenges to political vs. non-political beliefs (Figure modified from Kaplan et al., 2016).Lately I've…
Dead salmon, bugs, brain scans: can we ever agree on neuroscience research?Brain scans using functional magnetic resonance…
Earlier this year, neuroscience was shaken by the publication in PNAS of Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial…
Several people pointed me to this paper by Anders Eklund, Thomas Nichols, and Hans Knutsson, which begins: Functional MRI (fMRI…
About 50 people pointed me to this press release or the underlying PPNAS research article, “Cluster failure: Why fMRI…
We have many options for communication. We can choose platforms that fit our style, approach, and time constraints. From pop…
Over the summer, some headlines suggested that a study highlighting issues in the way we analyse fMRI data renders the…
This week [at Warwick], among other things, I attended the CRiSM workshop on hypothesis testing, giving the same talk as at…
Parents, the summer has not been so kind to the brain. This is not news to you. Nor teachers. You do not need a study to tell…
Le papier d’Anders Eklund a fait grand bruit dans la presse généraliste (anglophone) et spécialisée (surtout anglophone aussi) …
Here’s how to spot the bad science. It's easy to misrepresent the findings from brain scan research. Just ask a dead salmon
Guest Post by David Mehler, Cardiff University and University of Münster Are fMRI studies valid? That is a question that has…
There have been many controversies about substantial and sudden jumps in pharmaceutical prices, the most memorable/infamous…
A new study suggests that 70% of the time scientists see brain activity on an fMRI, they aren’t.Read More
More than forty thousand papers have been published using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology to explore…
In the last decade neuroscience has experienced an explosion of brain imaging studies, programs, and databases. The advance has…
Here are a few articles that did not act as a catalyst to stimulate an entire post but that tweaked our fancy enough that we…
One of the problems with any type research is the tendency to find what we are looking for. Over the past few years thousands…
Today's Water Cooler: TPP rolls on, triage of "The Trail," Clinton Foundation and Russian cash, manufacturing, Amazon, UPS…
An analysis by Eklund et al. has raised serious doubts about positive correlations reported in many of the 40,000 fMRI studies…
Image: Internet Archive Book Images, no known copyright restrictionsNeuroscientists have written an open letter to DIY brain…
Método vem do grego methodos 'perseguição, busca, sistema' (meta 'além, após' e hodos 'via, caminho'). É uma das principais seçõe…
There’s been a lot of discussion on social media of a recent paper in PNAS by Anders Eklund, Tom Nichols, and Hans Knutsson.Clust…
Hilary and I talk about statistical software in fMRI analyses, the differences between software testing differences in…
This is the third instalment of ‘The case for Open Research’ series of blogs exploring the problems with Scholarly…
NewsMRIs used to monitor brain activity in research have not been trustworthy over thousands of studies, according to new…
This week I chose the papers for the Brockington Lab ‘journal club’ here at the Department of Plant Sciences, University of…
Last week, a study brought into question years of research conducted using the neuroimaging technique functional magnetic…
Image: Internet Archive Book Images, no known copyright restrictionsA PNAS paper (with a previous incarnation on arXiv) is…
A bug in fMRI software could invalidate 15 years of brain…
Decades of research into how the brain functions could be in question.The validity of some 40,000 fMRI research studies has…
Researchers say the three most popular programs for interpreting fMRIs all had a false positive rate of up to 70 percent.
A new paper in PNAS has made waves. The article, called Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated…
Some 40,000 studies need to be re-examined. Ouch.
A new paper in PNAS has made waves. The article, called Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated…
Measuring Interoperability: Listening and Learning ONC will address a MACRA requirement to establish metrics for measuring…
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An anonymous reader shares a report on The Register: A whole pile of "this is how your brain looks like" MRI-based science has…
A recent paper: Anders Eklunda, Thomas E. Nicholsd, and Hans Knutssona, Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent…
(credit: Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) It's not an exaggeration to say that functional MRI has…
My entire body of work has been called into question!And what a fine week for technical neurogaffes it is. First was the threat…
A new paper reports that one of the most popular approaches to analyzing fMRI data is flawed. The article, available as a…
Data is not made. Data is born as a result of a measurement process. Taking measurements (in conjunction with a measurement…
Following on from the “Big Data or Pig Data” fable from the previous post, Commenter Jeff Walker just provided a link to…
Maybe you’ve heard that Obamacare is the biggest tax increase in history. Not so. Not even close. Kevin Drum posted the…
Cluster Failure In a paper entitled: "Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates…
This month, a large number of very interesting, sometimes even unexpected discoveries were published. It was hard to prioritise…