Stem Cell Fairy Tales and Stem Cell Fables
In an interview I did for The Washington Post in 2004, I asked McKay why so many people kept talking about the possibility that injections of stem cells into the brains of people with Alzheimer?s disease might someday cure these people when, in fact, the scientific consensus at the time (and still today) was that such injections were unlikely to benefit such patients.
From the ?herding instincts? of traders to our unselfish approach to transactions, behavioural studies are turning the economic orthodoxy of rational self-interest on its head. Pete Lunn explains what this means for consumer policy.
Nature v nurture? Please don't ask
The question has fuelled some of history's fiercest scientific and political feuds. Now we have an answer (Times Online)
Study shows brain activity associated with phantom limbs
Patients have reported seeing their phantom limb or feeling objects or body parts with it
Large-Scale Problems in Neuroscience > Patricia Churchland
What do neuroscientific discoveries imply for free will and responsibility?
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