tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post8688436276451544945..comments2024-03-19T02:52:27.788-07:00Comments on The Neurocritic: Unlucky ThirteenThe Neurocritichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-77134567353610857062019-02-17T13:46:05.311-08:002019-02-17T13:46:05.311-08:00Thank you, Mark. I very much appreciate your comme...Thank you, Mark. I very much appreciate your comments. And Sandra would have been happy to hear about Canadian readers!The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-28680985730128445712019-02-15T06:55:09.370-08:002019-02-15T06:55:09.370-08:00Dear Neurocrtic - your friends and readers are sti...Dear Neurocrtic - your friends and readers are still here. We will support you needing to mourn and remember. <br /><br />I'm a computer scientist and so well out of my depth with Big 5 anything. Instead I just wanted you to know you still have friends and readers - even if the Canadian ones are buried under a meter of snow.<br />Mark Levisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13339505374559057601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-34980272900039826682019-01-29T03:13:39.704-08:002019-01-29T03:13:39.704-08:00Oh, now I noticed that Anonymous #2 is Tim, so tha...Oh, now I noticed that Anonymous #2 is Tim, so thank you Tim.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-27969129570315402742019-01-29T03:06:56.946-08:002019-01-29T03:06:56.946-08:00To Anonymous #1 and #2 - Thanks for your encourage...To Anonymous #1 and #2 - Thanks for your encouragement and kind words. It has been hard to continue writing, more difficult than I anticipated. Besides a lack of emotional energy and focus, I wonder "why bother?" So I really appreciate your support. <br /><br />For music, there's: <a href="https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2012/12/music-and-empathy.html" rel="nofollow">Music and Empathy</a><br /><br /><a href="https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2012/12/more-music-more-empathy.html" rel="nofollow">More Music, More Empathy</a> (this one has neuroimaging)<br /><br />I have a few oddities like <a href="https://neurocritic.blogspot.com/2016/08/music-from-your-brain.html" rel="nofollow">Music from Your Brain</a> and several case studies of unusual syndromes involving music.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-56820172828207997662019-01-29T02:44:45.804-08:002019-01-29T02:44:45.804-08:00David J Littleboy - Thank you for the condolences....David J Littleboy - Thank you for the condolences. <br /><br />I also felt that some of the descriptions were inaccurate (e.g., with 92 negative emotionality / 25 extraversion, my relationships were <b>not</b> train wrecks):<br /><br />"<i>High negative emotionality: Conflict in relationships doesn’t have to be inherently destructive, and thank goodness for that, because your tendency toward anger, frustration and anxiety means your relationships probably have plenty of tension. <b>What’s more, you’re likely carrying that predisposition toward conflict with you from relationship to relationship.</b> The good news is that other parts of your personality affect relationship quality, too. Nobody is only one trait. For example, <b>higher scores on extraversion are correlated with satisfying marriages, so a person with high negative emotionality and high extraversion might have a very different relationship history than someone high in negative emotionality and low in extraversion.</b></i>"<br /><br />That's really funny, because my relationship was mostly conflict-free, except for a stretch of time when the other party had moderately uncontrolled bipolar 1. The right medication made all the difference. And before that I was in a relationship where we never argued or disagreed.The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-21255026251488075092019-01-29T02:23:46.666-08:002019-01-29T02:23:46.666-08:00Thanks for all your comments! (and sorry for the d...Thanks for all your comments! (and sorry for the delay in posting them).The Neurocritichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08010555869208208621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-38197084248892505562019-01-28T11:26:09.391-08:002019-01-28T11:26:09.391-08:00Dear Neurocritic,
What kind of thing is the inter...Dear Neurocritic,<br /><br />What kind of thing is the internet when it can't be used to<br />send something someone really needs: a dose of inner strength<br />booster? That's what I'd like to send you for the 13th<br />Birthday of your Blog.<br /><br />What I can send, and must hope will do as an alternative, is<br />an expression of my appreciation of, and great liking for, your<br />Blog. Your continuing to write this despite your deep<br />personal pain and grief, has, for me, at least, been an<br />example of how the really toughest parts of life can be lived<br />through.<br /><br />I am sure I'm not the only one of your Blog readers to benefit<br />from your carefully thought out and prepared posts, and who<br />enjoy them as the small diamonds they are, amongst the vast<br />amounts of crap that floods out over the internet each day.<br />So I hope this message will help you know that others out here<br />need you to keep on, and wish you the inner strength to do so.<br /><br />Best regards,<br /><br />Tim<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-54680641063847449742019-01-28T08:53:43.102-08:002019-01-28T08:53:43.102-08:00Hey Neurocritic, thanks for keeping this blog goin...Hey Neurocritic, thanks for keeping this blog going! Despite your difficult year, your observations bring life to many of my conversations. My fiancé is a cognitive neuroscientist, and I'm teaching a graduate psychology courses, so your candid, sometime sardonic commentary helps us both keep the sensationalism, from media and students, in balance. Have you done any posts on neuroimaging and music? We hope you see it through to year 14! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-89459308381107273022019-01-28T06:55:14.261-08:002019-01-28T06:55:14.261-08:00I also come out sky high on "openness to new ...I also come out sky high on "openness to new experience", which is completely hilarious because as I move into retirement, I'm very specifically intending to not do anything new at all but rather push deeper into the rabbit holes I've already dug myself (Go (the game), photography (landscape/abstract), Japanese language and lit, bebop/hard bop guitar).<br /><br />And to add insult to injury, a BBC test of a similar nature tells me that the country I'm most similar to personalitywise is Cyprus (huh?) and most different from is Japan. Which is odd, since I've lived here half my like and am very fond of the Japanese, the language, and the literature and art. And the Japanese do real well at the not specifically Japanese things I do (photography, jazz, Go).<br /><br />Whatever.<br /><br />Condolences on your loss. I hope you can come to some peace with it. I'm not much help, though. My father ran into hideous medical "care" at the "best hospital in Boston" and didn't survive it, It was 10 years ago, and I'm still raging at it. It hurts.<br />David J Littleboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21605329.post-33159397865785626132019-01-28T04:10:03.855-08:002019-01-28T04:10:03.855-08:00I scored 33 on agreableness and 42 on negative emo...I scored 33 on agreableness and 42 on negative emotionality. The rest is above average.<br /><br />AlainAlainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17081324424970483983noreply@blogger.com