tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post6686319261044590806..comments2024-03-22T00:30:09.536-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: A Conversation on "MINDLESS NEUROSCIENCE"The Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-42305323735822899402014-02-08T10:36:46.363-08:002014-02-08T10:36:46.363-08:00beneficii - Thanks for the links. I hadn't see...beneficii - Thanks for the links. I hadn't seen the Parnas commentary before, but will take a look at that and the special issue of World Psychiatry.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-56267169797309189442014-02-08T10:23:53.391-08:002014-02-08T10:23:53.391-08:00Also, here is the Feb 2014 issue of _World Psychia...Also, here is the Feb 2014 issue of _World Psychiatry_, which has a special focus on RDoC:<br /><br />http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/Publications/WPA_Journals/World_Psychiatry/Past_Issues/English/World%20Psychiatry_February%202014.pdf<br /><br />beneficiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-41129898319098718762014-02-08T09:21:07.944-08:002014-02-08T09:21:07.944-08:00I'm curious to know what you think about this ...I'm curious to know what you think about this commentary written by Josef Parnas, published recently in _World Psychiatry_?<br /><br />http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wps.20101/full<br />beneficiinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-41988610421877514762013-07-02T13:21:35.585-07:002013-07-02T13:21:35.585-07:00Dirk - Thanks for your incisive comment. That pret...Dirk - Thanks for your incisive comment. That pretty much sums it up.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-86507420509997210242013-07-02T11:53:50.127-07:002013-07-02T11:53:50.127-07:00Making bad choices as an addict, and getting pulle...Making bad choices as an addict, and getting pulled under by compulsion and cravings, doesn't mean that you must be an automaton, nor does it mean that addiction is something other than the product of disordered neurobiology. It's really quite easy to see through this problem using diabetes as the example. Those lazy diabetics--if they would just eat right and exercise properly, their symptoms would greatly diminish. But most of them don't. Why? Is it because diabetes is not a neurochemical disorder? Or consider people with Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency, who can shoot their red blood cells all to hell simply by eating fava beans or taking antifungal medication. If they don't eat the beans or take the meds, they don't manifest the disease. Does that mean the disease isn't real? Everybody hates pharmacogenetic diseases because the seem to steal away volition. But when you see that as part of the disorder's pathology, it becomes enlightening.Dirk Hansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07429793255785560043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-48437401861846537602013-06-24T19:25:16.986-07:002013-06-24T19:25:16.986-07:00SPR - Sure. A NYT column and an open AEI forum mig...SPR - Sure. A NYT column and an open AEI forum might not be the best places to discuss the concept of <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/properties-emergent/" rel="nofollow">emergent properties</a>.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-45753120395283877642013-06-24T15:56:51.019-07:002013-06-24T15:56:51.019-07:00There is a difference between recognizing that the...There is a difference between recognizing that the mind is not IDENTICAL to the brain (or "nothing but" the brain) and being a complete Cartesian dualist. One can consistently hold the former while rejecting the latter.SPRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-74127246928599213352013-06-20T03:00:13.248-07:002013-06-20T03:00:13.248-07:00Paraphrasing what one person said in the NYT comme...Paraphrasing what one person said in the NYT comments section: Mr Brooks, I challenge you to undergo a frontal lobotomy and then report back on how your mind was unaffected by it.<br /><br />Hard to believe Brooks could embarrass himself more than he's done over the year with his partisan NYT pieces on politics. But he did it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-31669520137801831832013-06-19T16:52:49.194-07:002013-06-19T16:52:49.194-07:00
It seems to me that popular perceptions of the ap...<br />It seems to me that popular perceptions of the applications of systems and scienctifi disciplines to purposes of good or evil, from the F-35 to the capabilities of computer network crunching data for intelligence agencies to neuroimaging is grounded in something analogous to people snorting the corporate brochures and papers underwritten by manufacturers and getting entirely too high off of them. <br />wileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10234314999465951053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-49891177651305461342013-06-19T14:26:10.240-07:002013-06-19T14:26:10.240-07:00My longer reply will be blogged here tomorrow: htt...My longer reply will be blogged here tomorrow: http://wp.me/p3walV-39Bjoern Brembshttp://brembs.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-39527397925527199962013-06-19T10:42:32.121-07:002013-06-19T10:42:32.121-07:00Anonymous - Your comment came in while I was writi...Anonymous - Your comment came in while I was writing my earlier reply. Thanks for pointing that out.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-7914623168849737452013-06-19T10:40:49.443-07:002013-06-19T10:40:49.443-07:00Thanks for your comments, I could have easily expa...Thanks for your comments, I could have easily expanded on both of your points.<br /><br />JT - Exactly. Lilienfeld did mention asking families, but in cases of a major manic episode or a severe traumatic brain injury, the person may be lacking insight into their own impulsivity. And the whole point of RDoC is to study multiple levels. This includes self-report, laboratory tests, brain imaging, genetics, etc.<br /><br />Bjoern - And I excluded some of my notes/comments on free will, one of which mentioned your work:<br /><br />Brooks asked them to estimate how many neuroscientists are atheists, how many believe in free will: <br /><br />95% do not believe in free will and 60% are atheists, acc. to Lilienfeld. Hmm.<br /><br />But see Christof Koch - "<a href="http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/04/02/christof-koch-on-free-will-the-singularity-and-the-quest-to-crack-consciousness/" rel="nofollow">However, more subtle readings of free will remain</a>." Can also read an excerpt from his book. {<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=finding-free-will" rel="nofollow">Finding Free Will</a>} <br /><br />Björn Brembs - <a href="http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/12/14/rspb.2010.2325" rel="nofollow">Towards a scientific concept of free will as a biological trait: spontaneous actions and decision-making in invertebrates</a>.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-47140256104063000532013-06-19T10:32:45.423-07:002013-06-19T10:32:45.423-07:00Lilienfeld is the guy who came up with the Psychop...Lilienfeld is the guy who came up with the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-- a self-report tests that, in effect, asks psychopaths if they are truly psychopaths! Seriously. I am not making this up, though I wish I were.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-16474655715148383942013-06-19T08:14:29.842-07:002013-06-19T08:14:29.842-07:00What I wonder is: what's the seductive allure ...What I wonder is: what's the seductive allure of magic?<br /><br />Creations go: "oooh, I don't understand evilution, magic man done it!"<br /><br />Dualists go: "oooh, I don't understand psychology, it must be magic in our heads!"<br /><br />What's the neuroscience of compulsively making things up instead of doing research when confronted with phenomena we don't understand?Bjoern Brembshttp://brembs.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-82679400586290907822013-06-19T06:35:48.075-07:002013-06-19T06:35:48.075-07:00What Lilienfeld said about impulsivity was not the... What Lilienfeld said about impulsivity was not the main point of this, but it bothered me a little. You might want to use a laboratory test of impulsivity because of the problems with self-report of cognitive processes (Nisbett & Wilson, 1977) that might make asking someone "How impulsive are you?" less accurate that a behavioral measure of it.JThttp://www.twitter.com/jdottannoreply@blogger.com