Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...
There’s been a fair flap lately about John Horgan’s argument that optogenetics and its potential have been overhyped by both scientists and some jou...
31 Aug 2013: The public memo below, asking jouranlist Alison Bass to correct serious errors she published in a November 2010 post at her site, was originally pu...
I resist best-of-year roundups when I see the heads — but then find I usually like reading them, and lo and behold, find it instructive to do my own. While most...
Not making this up: A team of researchers has used light to make a mouse’s brain run better and relieve the mouse’s mousy version of depression. (Pa...
The ever-excellent Neurocritic has an interesting post looking at "lesion studies" of depression. As he notes, he was hoping for real lesions, from people who'd...