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Dr Shock MD PhD
From this excellent weekly round up I especially liked:
Do countries with more mental illness have more suicides? From Neuroskeptic
Although not all suicides are related to mental illness, unsurprisingly people with mental illness do have a much higher suicide rate than people without. So, all other things being equal, the rate of mental illness in a country should correlate with the suicide rate. Of course, all other things are not equal, and other factors might come into play such as the quality of mental health services.
Mapping the Glutamate Receptor
Want to know what it’s all about the glutamate receptor? Should be interesting not only to neuroscientists.
How creativity springs from a choreographed set of mental events from Seedmagazine
Kooper didn’t have time to think — the chorus was about to happen — and so he just started banging on the ivory keys. This same impromptu process defines some of the most …