Psychology

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Registered Rep. August 1, 2005 Ruth Halcomb	Tame Your Inner Lizard An interview with Terry Burnham, a former economist at Harvard who applies biology to the financial markets, says the problem is that the human brain was shaped in the Pleistocene era, back when humans had to forage for food, sabotaging our investing instincts.
Bio-IT World July 2005 Salvatore Salamone	New Blue Gene Project to Model the Brain IBM and a Swiss research institute have announced a joint research initiative dubbed the Blue Brain Project to create a 3-D model of the brain. To perform the simulations, the project will use a four-rack Blue Gene/L system that will deliver a peak processing of about 22.8 teraFLOPS (22.8 trillion operations per second).
Bio-IT World July 2005	DBS Model Full color illustrations of a deep brain stimulation system using a pulse generator in the chest and four electrodes in the brain.
Seasoned Cooking August 2005 Michael Fick	The Importance of Your Value System in Making Valid Decisions All of your decisions should be increasingly sound, lasting, and consistent as your value system becomes clearer to you. Priorities and goals, not emotions, should drive important decisions, activities, and milestones.
Outside July 2005 Steven Kotler	Brisk Bliss Self-help author Victor Davich--a man devoted to teaching meditation without the drippy guru trappings--has recently published 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet Your Mind, Change Your Life, an introductory guide with a particularly modern bent.
Scientific American July 2005 Gunjan Sinha	Training the Brain Cognitive therapy as an alternative to ADHD drugs.
American Family Physician July 1, 2005 Wattendorf & Muenke	Diagnosis and Management of Fragile X Syndrome Fragile X syndrome is an X-linked inherited disorder. It is important to diagnose affected patients as early as possible to provide early intervention and supportive care and to inform parents for further family planning.
Wired July 2005 Annalee Newitz	The Coming Boom Big Pharma has made billions pumping up the male population. Now neuroscientists are reverse engineering the female orgasm. For women, excitement starts in the brain.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Robert W. Lucky	The Dream This author/engineer wants to know if you have ever dreamed about facing a final exam in some course you've never attended.
Financial Planning July 1, 2005 Joshua Weinberger	White Paper A new theory of financial behavior: The seeming irrationality of the typical investor is, in fact, a series of adaptive responses to an uncertain, rapidly changing environment.
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