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Conference on neuroaesthetics by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I am one of the organizers of a three day conference on neuroaesthetics that takes place at the University of Copenhagen from September 24 to September 26. If you are interest ... Read on »

Damasio on emotion, Fisher on love, Peretz on music by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In March, the Center for Academic Research & Training in Anthropogeny hosted a conference on the “Evolutionary Origins of Art and Aesthetics”. The list of speakers was pre ... Read on »

Neuroaesthetics book out! by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I am sure loads of you neuroscience buffs out there will be interested in hearing that a new book on neuroaesthetics has just been published. Edited by myself and Oshin Vartan ... Read on »

Neuromarketing attitudes survey by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Dear all,We are currently running a survey on people’s attitudes towards neuromarketing and related topics. We hope that you will all take this survey, as well as shard this l ... Read on »

Where’s the voodoo? by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I just love this title: Independence in ROI analysis: where is the voodoo? by Russel Poldrack and Jeanette Mumford. Lately, there has been much fuzz about so-called voodoo cor ... Read on »

Youtube as neuroscience resource hub by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I just love the way that YouTube is developing these days. If you just spend some time searching this wonderful site, you can get access to so many different teaching resource ... Read on »

Fear and pleasure in the amygdala by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Here is a heads up for a recent study demonstrating – again – that the amygdala is not merely a “fear centre” in the brain. I have previously blogged about the amygdala, first ... Read on »

Register for neuroethics conference now! by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics We highly recommend this interesting conference, and please note that the deadline for registration is tomorrow (!!!). So get this out to all and everybody, and see to that yo ... Read on »

Alien hand syndrome on youtube by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics I just found this through mindhacks, and thought it was nice how well this illustrates the amazement one can get from witnessing neurological injury and disease. Through my ea ... Read on »

Gut feelings in Copenhagen by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Antoine Bechara, the inventer of the Iowa Gambling Task, and together with Antonio Damasio the architect of the “somatic marker hypothesis” is visiting the Decision Neuroscien ... Read on »

Readings in neuroeconomics by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics During the spring of 2009 I organized a course course entitled “Neuroeconomics”, together with Prof.s Elke Weber and Eric Johnson. In this course, we made a compendium of arti ... Read on »

Decisions, decisions – and the brain by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

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Unconditional love in the brain? by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics From time to time we bring you the quirky side of neuroscience here at BrainEthics. Now, we discover a funny little study in Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging that bears the a ... Read on »

A hidden island of value-based decisions by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The role of the insula in many human behaviorsFollowing up on my lead on Antoine Bechara’s upcoming visit, it is worthnotinv one of the new trends in decision making research. ... Read on »

Big names coming to CPH by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Antoine Bechara (left) and Antonio DamasioAs I mentioned in my previous post, I am currently giving lectures on an April course on neuroeconomics together with Prf.s Elke Webe ... Read on »

Bloggin’ back to live…now with more meat by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Emergence of emergence abound, we are coming to life again. After a long a chilly winter here in Denmark, we have not been on the lazy side in our neuro-caves. At present, our ... Read on »

Hippocampus throughout the menstrual cycle by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics The recent issue of the journal Hippocampus has an interesting article on the structure of the hippocampus throughout the menstrual cycle. By studying women two times during t ... Read on »

Neuroeconomy in Munich by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics In case any of you have plans for going to the first NeuroPsychoEconomics conference in Munich this Thursday and Friday, let me know. Or if you’re just in the vicinity, you ca ... Read on »

Brain value — recent updates by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Current Opinion in Neurobiology now hosts a wonderful special issue on “Cognitive Neuroscience”. Well, it’s actually more narrow and to the point than this. Many of the articl ... Read on »

Two ways of reducing fear by Thomas Z. Ramsøy Doctor of Philosophy

Posted in: Blog Posts in Bioethics Emotional reactions may come in many forms and have different causes. But one of the main responses is the fear response, which has been shown to involved the amygdala. Differ ... Read on »

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