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		<title>Another Viagra Side Effect: Amnesia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sounds like the setup for an off-color joke, but it&#8217;s true: Viagra and the other phosphodiesterase inhibitors (definitely Cialis, and probably Levitra too) can trigger an episode of transient global amnesia (TGA), one of the more mysterious and freaky cognitive syndromes one can encounter. TGA isn&#8217;t like amnesia in the soap operas, where people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=170&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schizophrenics Can Tickle Themselves</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/21/self-tickle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neuroshrink.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s not because they have &#8220;split personalities.&#8221; In a previous post on contagious yawns I mentioned self-tickle as another interesting and fun pop-neuropsychiatric topic. At some point most of us have probably wondered what the heck is up with tickling? (not to mention $%#*#@ magnets, how do they work?) The question of why we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=157&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming Amen: Nuclear Psychiatry or Unclear Medicine?</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/20/amen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest American Journal of Psychiatry arrived in the mail last week, and when I got around to the letters section, I found a letter from Daniel Amen objecting to a critique of his work following a review of his book from last year. Apparently his book, Healing the Hardware of Your Soul, was criticized [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=140&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Introspection Nucleus</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/17/the-introspection-nucleus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://neuroshrink.com/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A study in today&#8217;s issue of Science concludes that the size of a small area of the right prefrontal cortex correlates with &#8220;introspective ability.&#8221; I wonder if, in the coming years when meta-irony is bound to be king, whether &#8220;prefrontal cortex-gazing&#8221; will replace &#8220;navel-gazing&#8221; as an epithet for introspection. There are certainly limitations to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=129&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>So That&#8217;s How Antidepressants Work (in mice)!</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/16/so-thats-how-antidepressants-work-in-mice/</link>
		<comments>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/16/so-thats-how-antidepressants-work-in-mice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the September 17 of Science, a new mouse study of SSRI effects finds that there is a microRNA that is upregulated by SSRIs, and which affects expression of serotonin transporters. This is presumably in addition to the direct inhibition of the reuptake pumps by the drug itself. It&#8217;s an interesting new piece of info [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=76&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thimerosal: It doesn&#8217;t cause autism, and it&#8217;s not even in our vaccines, which also don&#8217;t cause autism</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/16/thimerosal/</link>
		<comments>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/16/thimerosal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another addition to the burgeoning mountain evidence of vaccine safety: early exposure to thimerosal doesn&#8217;t cause autism. You may remember that thimerosal was targeted by the anti-vaccination autism advocates as a dangerous mercury-containing agent that caused brain damage in children who were victims of vaccination. At face value, it seems natural to be concerned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=107&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why aren&#8217;t yawns contagious in autism?</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/15/why-arent-yawns-contagious-in-autism/</link>
		<comments>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/15/why-arent-yawns-contagious-in-autism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nice little study in the Sep/Oct issue of Child Development found that children with an autism diagnosis are less susceptible to contagious yawning than &#8220;neurotypical&#8221; children. My first reaction was happiness that someone is studying this. Contagious yawning is one of those pop-neuropsychiatric phenomena that I am likely to be asked about at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=98&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Medical School Sucks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/14/medical-school-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/14/medical-school-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I was in medical school, near the end of second year, I was burnt out. We were all preparing for USMLE Step 1 and final exams for Pathology, Pharmacology, etc.  at the same time. I had the distinct feeling that if the school had for some reason added two more courses to our workload [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=72&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intracranial Ventriloquism</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/07/intracranial-ventriloquism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Neuroshrink</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Futuristic-sounding story out of University of Utah today: electrodes implanted in the skull allow patients to speak without making a sound. While this is certainly a cool new trick, the investigator was quick to add: &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean the problem is completely solved and we can all go home. It means it works, and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=65&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Mushrooms for Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://neuroshrink.com/2010/09/07/mushrooms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a study published online yesterday in Archives of General Psychiatry, investigators at UCLA published the results of a pilot study using psilocybin (the active ingredient in &#8220;magic mushrooms&#8221;) to treat anxiety in cancer patients. This was a small study, with 12 patients who acted as their own controls (each had two sessions, one using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neuroshrink.com&#038;blog=15464204&#038;post=53&#038;subd=neuroshrink&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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