MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'brain scans'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:28:42 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4053342&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D330 Insurance “claim fraudsters think too much”. Some great Portsmouth Uni research covered by Irish Independent http://retwt.me/1P8R0 “If You Want to Catch a Liar, Make Him Draw” David DiSalvo @Neuronarrative on more great Portsmouth Uni research http://retwt.me/1P8ZB fMRI scans of people with schizophrenia show they have same functional anatomical distinction between truth telling & deception as others http://bit.ly/aO5cI2 via @Forpsych In press: Promising to tell truth makes 8- 16 year-olds more honest (but lectures on morality don’t). Beh Sciences & Law http://is.gd/fCa7X (Source: Deception Blog) Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4053342 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:34:12 +0100 4053342 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3983429&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D329 Discussions in Conference Calls. Linguistic analysis method 50-65% accuracy. SSRN via http://is.gd/eI0bA Effect of suspicion & liars’ strategies on reality monitoring Gnisci, Caso & Vrij in App Cog Psy 24:762–773 http://is.gd/eCFyA Applied contexts: A new Canadian study on why sex offenders confess during police interrogation (no polygraph necessary) http://is.gd/eoWl7 Can fabricated evidence induce false eyewitness testimony? App Cog Psych 24(7) http://is.gd/fhPDd Free access In press, B J Soc Psy Cues to deception in context. http://is.gd/fhPcY Apparently ‘context’ = ‘Jeremy Kyle Show’. Can’t wait for the paper! Can people successfully feign high levels of interrogative suggestibility & compliance when given instructions to malinger? http://ht.ly/2z8Wz Ki... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3983429 Sun, 19 Sep 2010 11:51:16 +0100 3983429 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3726560&cid=t_109141_83_f&fid=34856&url=http%3A%2F%2Finsidesurgery.com%2F2010%2F07%2Fstudy-shows-brain-scans-predict-risk-future-mental-illness%2F Dr. Maddie Groom and colleagues have developed research that shows that brain scans may be able to pick up subtle abnormalities in the brains of people who later go on to develop mental illness such as schizophrenia and ADHD and ADD. (Source: Inside Surgery) Inside Surgery blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3726560 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:44:29 +0100 3726560 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3641142&cid=t_109141_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F3sblmEAdA8M%2F The Boston Globe has a good article/ book review on the latest quasi-luddite attack on the Internet (an attack in the name of brain science no less, and with cool brain scans). The book in question: “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains.” The Internet ate my brain (Boston Globe) - Nicholas Carr says that our online lifestyle threatens to make us dumber. But resistance may not be futile The reporter, Wes Anderson, adds the proper perspective, in my view, by ending the article with: “Books and the Internet, literary culture and digital culture have coexisted for many years. It may be that an engaged intellectual life will now require a sort of hybrid existence — and a hybrid mind that can adapt and survive by the choices one makes. It may require a new ... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3641142 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:23:59 +0100 3641142 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3633511&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34761&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedblitz.com%2F%7E%2F13247485%2F1gim2s%2Fneuromarketing%7EfMRI-Neuron-Data-Validated.htm Brain scans using fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) don’t always get a lot of respect. They have been accused of being used to produce research that is colorful but not particularly insightful. One study used fMRI to find activity in the brains of dead salmon (Are Brain Scan Findings Fishy?). Some have even [...] (Source: Neuromarketing) Neuromarketing blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3633511 Mon, 17 May 2010 12:02:13 +0100 3633511 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2828262&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34750&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpsychcentral.com%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F09%2F24%2Feverything-has-a-neurobiological-correlate%2F This study tells us nothing about how these dopamine receptors got the way they did. Instead, it joins the growing number of studies that analyze the brain and tell us things like, the structure of the brain may influence ADHD, or that hundreds of gene variations are linked to ADHD, or that, it’s not that people with ADHD’s brains don’t have enough dopamine, it’s that the brain pushes dopamine in the wrong direction influencing a ‘speed’ response between nerve cells. I could go on, but I hope you get the point. Hundreds of studies have now been done analyzing the brains and genes of people with mental illness, but it doesn’t feel like we are any closer to the truth than we were 10 years ago. One of the reasons is because none of these kinds of studies she... World of Psychology blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2828262 Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:55:44 +0100 2828262 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2550271&cid=t_109141_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2FwqZRH9S9VxM%2F (Editor's Note: I recently came across an excellent book and resource, The Alzheimer's Action Plan: The Experts' Guide to the Best Diagnosis and Treatment for Memory Problems, recently released in paperback. Dr. Murali Doraiswamy, one of the authors and leading Alzheimer's expert, kindly helped us create a 2-part article series to share with SharpBrains readers advice on a very important question, "How can we help the public at large to distinguish Alzheimer's Disease from normal aging --- so that an interest in early identification doesn't translate into unneeded worries?" What follows is an excerpt from the book, pages 72-78, discussing the Pros and Cons of the most common assessments). --- While no single test (other than a brain biopsy, which is a very invasive and risky proc... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2550271 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:37:04 +0100 2550271 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2067399&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kpbs.org%2Fmedia%2Fassets%2FAUDIO%2FThese-Days%2F2008%2F06%2F080603-td1BC-Lying.mp3 Part two of the Deception Blog round-up of “all those articles I haven’t had a chance to blog about”. Part one was about catching liars via non-mechanical techniques. This post covers articles and discussion about new technologies to detect deception, including fMRI and measurement of Event-Related Potentials. fMRI and deception: discussion on the journal pages It’s been quite a year for advances in neuroscience and deception detection, so much so that in a recent paper in of the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law, Daniel Langleben and Frank Dattilio suggested that a new discipline of “forensic MRI” was emerging. One interesting exchange appeared recently in the Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry & Law: Joseph R. Simpson (2008). F... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2067399 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:00:00 +0100 2067399 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1886359&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D304 New Scientist (3 Oct) asks: Could brain scans ever be safe evidence? DONNA insists that she met friends for lunch on the afternoon of 25 January 2008 and did not violate a restraining order against Marie. But Marie told police that Donna broke the terms of the order by driving up to her car while it was stopped at a traffic light, yelling and cursing, and then driving off. A polygraph test proved unsatisfactory: every time Marie’s name was mentioned Donna’s responses went sky-high. But when Donna approached Cephos of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, for an fMRI scan, which picks up changes in blood flow and oxygenation in the brain, it was a different story. “Her results indicated that she was telling the truth about the January 25 incident,” says Steven Laken of Cephos, ... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1886359 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:48:48 +0100 1886359 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1829124&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D299 I’ve been lax posting on the blogs recently, I know (real life interferes with blogging). Consider this a catch-up post with some of the deception-related issues hitting the news stands over the last few weeks. Polygraphing sex offenders gains momentum in the UK: A new pilot scheme to polygraph test sex offenders to see if they “are a risk to the public or are breaking the terms of their release from jail”, according to The Times (20 Sept 2008). Brain fingerprinting in the news again: Brain test could be next polygraph (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 14 Sept): A Seattle scientist who has developed an electronic brain test that he says could improve our ability to force criminals to reveal themselves, identify potential terrorists and free those wrongly convicted may have fin... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1829124 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 06:27:31 +0100 1829124 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1811294&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D295 According to a report in the New York Times (14 Sept), an Indian judge has taken the results a brain scan as “proof that the [murder] suspect’s brain held ‘experiential knowledge’ about the crime that only the killer could possess”, and passed a life sentence. The Brain Electrical Oscillations Signature test, or BEOS, was developed by Champadi Raman Mukundan, a neuroscientist who formerly ran the clinical psychology department of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences in Bangalore. His system builds on methods developed at American universities by other scientists, including Emanuel Donchin, Lawrence A. Farwell and J. Peter Rosenfeld. Neuroethics and Law Blog comments, as does Dr Lawrence Farwell (inventor of the controversial ‘Brain Fi... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1811294 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:00:00 +0100 1811294 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1305320&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D278 Sorry for the slow posting recently - real life is getting in the way of blogging at the moment., and is likely to continue to do so for some time yet, so please bear with me. Perhaps some of these items will give you your deception research fix in the meantime. If you’d like something to listen to during the daily commute why not download an interview with John F. Sullivan, author of Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner (h/t Antipolygraph Blog). Alternatively, try a short NPR Morning Edition segment on the neuropsychology of lying (h/t and see also The Frontal Cortex). The ever-interesting BPS Research Digest discusses a study of how toddlers tell a joke from a mistake. According to the researchers, Elena Hoicka and Merideth Gattis: …the ability to recognise humoro... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1305320 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:00:04 +0100 1305320 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1173748&cid=t_109141_122_f&fid=36582&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2F%7Er%2FSharpBrains%2F%7E3%2F221904237%2F This article was written by Pascale Michelon, Ph. D., for SharpBrains.com. Dr. Michelon has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and has worked as a Research Scientist at Washington University in Saint Louis, in the Psychology Department. She conducted several research projects to understand how the brain makes use of visual information and memorizes facts. She is now an Adjunct Faculty at Washington University, and teaches Memory Workshops in numerous retirement communities in the St Louis area. Alzheimer’s disease, brain, brain damage, brain scans, CAT scans, cognitive brain reserve, cognitive psychology, Education, fit brains, fMRI scans, Functional imaging, healthy brain, higher education, intellectual stimulation, Memory Workshops mental stimulation, MRI scans, museums, neural activity,... SharpBrains blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1173748 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:53:52 +0100 1173748 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=1003535&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D263 A press release (2 Nov) heralds the publication of a new study by Professor Sean Spence from the University of Sheffield, who claims the research shows that fMRI “could be used alongside other factors to address questions of guilt versus innocence”. It’s an interesting study on two counts: one, it appears to be the first time that fMRI lie-detection research has been carried out using a real world case (as opposed to contrived experiments), and two, the research was funded by a TV company and featured on a TV documentary earlier this year. The study is currently in press in the journal European Psychiatry (reference below). The press release gives a summary of the findings: An academic at the University of Sheffield has used groundbreaking technology to investigate the p... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=1003535 Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:00:47 +0100 1003535 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=745499&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D234 Hat tip to Prof Peter Tillers for pointing us to a paper from Charles Keckler, George Mason University School of Law, on admissibility in court of neuroimaging evidence of deception. Here’s the abstract: The last decade has seen remarkable process in understanding ongoing psychological processes at the neurobiological level, progress that has been driven technologically by the spread of functional neuroimaging devices, especially magnetic resonance imaging, that have become the research tools of a theoretically sophisticated cognitive neuroscience. As this research turns to specification of the mental processes involved in interpersonal deception, the potential evidentiary use of material produced by devices for detecting deception, long stymied by the conceptual and legal limitation... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=745499 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 05:00:54 +0100 745499 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=738880&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D231 Hat tip to Mind Hacks (25 June) for alterting us to the fact that the organisers of the conference on The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning: Coming soon to a courtroom near you?, held in Arizona in April, have uploaded both the powerpoint presentations and MP3s of most of the lectures to the conference website. A feast of interesting material here that should keep you going, even on the longest commute, including: “Brain Imaging and the Mind: Pseudoscience or Science?” - William Uttal, Arizona State University “Overview of Brain Scanning Technologies” - John J.B. Allen, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona “Brain Scanning and Lie Detection” - Steven Laken, Founder and CEO, Cephos Corporation “Brain Scanning in the Courts: The Story So Fa... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=738880 Tue, 17 Jul 2007 05:05:16 +0100 738880 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=516338&cid=t_109141_109_f&fid=34742&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdeception.crimepsychblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D187 Anywhere near Arizona in a couple of weeks? Arizona State University is running a one day conference on Friday, April 13, entitled The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning: Coming soon to a courtroom near you? The conference is free but you must pre-register. The conference has four consecutive sessions, on Brain Scanning Technologies; Brain Scanning in the Courts; Specific Applications of Brain Scanning Technologies; and Ethical Aspects of Brain Scanning. The full line-up of speakers and talks is here. Most of the day looks like being interesting from but from a deception point of view, two particular presentations stand out: Brain Scanning and Lie Detection from Daniel Langleben, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Legal Admissibility of Neurological Lie Detection Evidence - A... Deception Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=516338 Mon, 02 Apr 2007 19:06:26 +0100 516338