Friday, March 29, 2019

Efficacy of anti‐inflammatory treatment on major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms: They improved antidepressant treatment; studies need to include longer follow‐up, identify optimal doses & patients than may benefit

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Efficacy of anti‐inflammatory treatment on major depressive disorder or depressive symptoms: meta‐analysis of clinical trials. O. Köhler‐For...

Finding meaning in the clouds: Illusory pattern perception predicts receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit

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Finding meaning in the clouds: Illusory pattern perception predicts receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit. Alexander C. Walker et al. Judg...

Does well-designed, well-documented, psychologically principled, and carefully implemented psychotherapy lead to better outcomes than therapy of lower quality?

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Jones, Payton J., Patrick Mair, Sofie Kuppens, and John R. Weisz. 2019. “An Upper Limit to Youth Psychotherapy Benefit? A Meta-analytic Copu...

Paracetamol reduces affective reactivity to other people’s positive experiences; & the experience of physical pain & positive empathy may have a more similar neurochemical basis than previously assumed

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A Social Analgesic? Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Reduces Positive Empathy Dominik Mischkowski, Jennifer Crocker and Baldwin M. Way. Front. Ps...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

A Model for Public Access to Trustworthy and Comprehensive Reporting of Research

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A Model for Public Access to Trustworthy and Comprehensive Reporting of Research. Marina Broitman, Harold C. Sox, Jean Slutsky. JAMA, March ...

The human nose could have evolved to separate olfactory inputs to enhance stereo olfaction; as humans became more sedentary in the Neolithic, maybe other functions appeared (detecting disease in newly dense human settlements)

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The navigational nose: a new hypothesis for the function of the human external pyramid. Lucia F. Jacobs. Journal of Experimental Biology 201...

Review of Mustafic et al.'s Main air pollutants and myocardial infarction: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA. 307:713-721

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Evaluation of a meta-analysis of air quality and heart attacks, a case study. S. Stanley Young and Warren B. Kindzierski. Critical Review in...

Positive Sanctions versus Imprisonment: Paying people to stay out of criminal life

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Positive Sanctions versus Imprisonment. Murat C. Mungan. George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 19-03. January 17, 2019. https:...

A Comparative Approach to Morphological, Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Sexual Signaling in Women and Nonhuman Primate Females

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Sexual Attractiveness: a Comparative Approach to Morphological, Behavioral and Neurophysiological Aspects of Sexual Signaling in Women and N...