Psychology, Mind & Neuroscience Roundup

Confused researchers:

The hegemony of verbal memory (not a mistake I would make).

Graphs, confidence intervals and significance (I take the 5th).

SciAm has an article on the human predilection for storytelling and narrative.

Daniel Lende (Neuroanthropology) posted an interesting summary of the Critical Neuroscience Workshop he attended in Montreal.

Dr. Freberg reviews Loneliness, a book summarizing 30 years of research into the subject by John Cacioppo and his colleagues at U of C.

Can Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome be triggered by smoking cessation? (Corpus Callosum).  My introduction to NMS came as the local police were removing the body of a deceased patient from a psychiatric unit on the very first day of my first inpatient practicum while in graduate school.  At the time, there was lots of speculation about NMS among unit staff members.  I hadn't yet learned anything about psychopharmacology and was unfamiliar with this adverse reaction.

Jeremy Dean gives us a post on 7 myths of crowd psychology.

PsychBlog discusses pain experience and  coping with  pain.

You should definitely check this one out. Writhe Safely posted Bukowski's The Shoelace.