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		<title>Neurophilosophy blog archive</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Neurophilosophy blog is written by Mo Costandi. The latest entries can be found at the Guardian. Copyright © Mo Costandi 2006-2013 mohebcostandi@gmail.com &#124; @mocost<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3664&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A whiff of early brain evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 14:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Evolutionary Biology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question of how mammals evolved their exceptionally large brains has intrigued researchers for years, and although many ideas have been put forward, none has provided a clear answer. Now a team of palaeontologists suggests that the mammalian brain evolved in three distinct stages, the first of which was driven by an improvement in the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3746&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Speed of illusory body movements alters the passage of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 11:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Your brain has a remarkable ability to extract and process biological cues from the deluge of visual information. It is highly sensitive to the movements of living things, especially those of other people – so much so that it conjures the illusion of movement from a picture of a moving body. Although static, such pictures [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3932&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Box jellyfish stable-eyes vision to hunt prey</title>
		<link>https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2011/04/28/box-jellyfish-stable-eyes-vision-to-hunt-prey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Behaviour]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ernst Haeckel’s Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms of Nature) was a landmark in biological illustration. Published in 1904, it was lavishly illustrated with 100 exquisitely detailed lithographic plates, including the one above, showing different species of cubomedusae, or box jellyfish. Since around the time that Haeckel’s masterpiece was published, we&#8217;ve known that box jellyfish have a unique visual system [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3734&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gut bacteria may influence thoughts and behaviour</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health & Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Microbiology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The human gut contains a diverse community of bacteria which colonize the large intestine in the days following birth and vastly outnumber our own cells. These intestinal microflora constitute a virtual organ within an organ and influence many bodily functions. Among other things, they aid in the uptake and metabolism of nutrients, modulate the inflammatory response to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3457&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking into Ramachandran’s broken mirror</title>
		<link>https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/looking-into-ramachandrans-broken-mirror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 12:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviews]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited Vilayanur S. Ramachandran at the University of California, San Diego recently, and interviewed him and several members of his lab about their work. Rama and I talked, among other things, about the controversial broken mirror hypothesis, which he and others independently proposed in the early 1990s as an explanation for autism. I’ve written a short [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3103&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial nerve grafts made from spider silk</title>
		<link>https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/artificial-nerve-grafts-made-from-spider-silk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Materials Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer from paralyzed limbs as a result of peripheral nerve injury. Recently, implantation of artificial nerve grafts has become the method of choice for repairing damaged peripheral nerves. Grafts can lead to some degree of functional recovery when a short segment of nerve is damaged. But they are [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3452&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough and tender: How touch affects sex categorization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neuroscience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Look at the photograph below on the right. Does it show the face of a man or a woman? There’s no right answer – the photo has been manipulated to look sexually ambiguous and can be perceived as either. But according to a recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, the sense of touch can [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3399&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The woman who knows no fear</title>
		<link>https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/the-woman-who-knows-no-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 44-year-old woman with a rare form of brain damage can literally feel no fear, according to a case study published yesterday in the journal Current Biology. Referred to as S.M., she suffers from a genetic condition called Urbach-Wiethe Disease. The condition is extremely rare, with fewer than 300 reported cases since it was first described in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3394&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An interview with Suzanne Corkin</title>
		<link>https://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/an-interview-with-suzanne-corkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mo Costandi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suzanne Corkin is a professor of behavioural neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked with the famous amnesic patient H.M. for more than 45 years. I interviewed her at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego last month, for this article I wrote for The Dana Foundation. We talked about her work with H.M., and about the project to examine [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=neurophilosophy.wordpress.com&#038;blog=154339&#038;post=3387&#038;subd=neurophilosophy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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