Sandeep G.

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Logos Vs Mythos: Autism Vs Schizophrenia

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 9:49 am
I recently came across this TED talk by Devdatt Patnaik, A chief Belief Officer in an Indian industry group and was fascinated by his description of the distinction between logos based ‘the̵...
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Logos Vs Mythos: Autism Vs Schizophrenia

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 21, 2009, 9:49 am
I recently came across this TED talk by Devdatt Patnaik, A chief Belief Officer in an Indian industry group and was fascinated by his description of the distinction between logos based ‘the̵...
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Seeing is believing : why delusions may arise from anomalous experiences

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 10:23 pm
Image via Wikipedia I recently came across this article by Rosengren and Hickling about how children explain seemingly impossible or extraordinary transformations in terms of magic or trickery or nat...
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Seeing is believing : why delusions may arise from anomalous experiences

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 19, 2009, 10:23 pm
Image via Wikipedia I recently came across this article by Rosengren and Hickling about how children explain seemingly impossible or extraordinary transformations in terms of magic or trickery or nat...
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The five domains of human social experience:the SCARF model

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 5:59 am
Image via Wikipedia I recently came across David Rock’s Psychology Today blog named your brain at work. He has recently published a book by the same name and though I haven’t read...
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The five domains of human social experience:the SCARF model

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 16, 2009, 5:59 am
Image via Wikipedia I recently came across David Rock’s Psychology Today blog named your brain at work. He has recently published a book by the same name and though I haven’t read...
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Autism-a two dimensional disorder?

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 4:03 am
Image via Wikipedia Two main underlying deficits have been proposed in autism- one concerning an inactive or non-existent Theory of Mind module and another a tendency towards Weak Central Coherence. ...
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Autism-a two dimensional disorder?

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 9, 2009, 4:03 am
Image via Wikipedia Two main underlying deficits have been proposed in autism- one concerning an inactive or non-existent Theory of Mind module and another a tendency towards Weak Central Coherence. ...
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The five tribal stages

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 1:16 pm
I recently came across this TEDx video by David Logan talking about the five tribal stages and was glad on discovering another confirmation to my stage theoretic model. Dave along with King and Haleee...
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The five tribal stages

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 6, 2009, 1:16 pm
I recently came across this TEDx video by David Logan talking about the five tribal stages and was glad on discovering another confirmation to my stage theoretic model. Dave along with King and Haleee...
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IQ,SES and heritability

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 8:12 am
A reader of this blog wrote to me recently regarding a series of posts I have written regarding IQ,SES and heritability, and I thought it would be good to share the comments with the rest of the mouse...
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IQ,SES and heritability

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 8:12 am
A reader of this blog wrote to me recently regarding a series of posts I have written regarding IQ,SES and heritability, and I thought it would be good to share the comments with the rest of the mouse...
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Five kinds of self/self-knowledge

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 9:37 am
Image via Wikipedia What can one say about an article that explores self in terms of stage theories (5 stages that match my own stage theoretic framework), has references to infantile autism and par...
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Five kinds of self/self-knowledge

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Nov 1, 2009, 9:37 am
Image via Wikipedia What can one say about an article that explores self in terms of stage theories (5 stages that match my own stage theoretic framework), has references to infantile autism and par...
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My 2 Brains: my new blog

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 11:00 pm
I have just started a new blog called My 2 Brains and you can read more about that blog and what topics and themes it will cover over here. One of the first posts is about the real-time stream and a...
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My 2 Brains: my new blog

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 11:00 pm
I have just started a new blog called My 2 Brains and you can read more about that blog and what topics and themes it will cover over here. One of the first posts is about the real-time stream and a...
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The epigenetics of Autism: Oxytocin factor and implications for schizophrenia

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 2:39 pm
Image via Wikipedia Autism is a hard disorder to nail down genetically- single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or even multiple locus genetic effects are not able to account for the large genetic com...
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The epigenetics of Autism: Oxytocin factor and implications for schizophrenia

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 2:39 pm
Image via Wikipedia Autism is a hard disorder to nail down genetically- single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) or even multiple locus genetic effects are not able to account for the large genetic com...
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Splitting the self : "me" and "I":

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 6:29 am
Image via Wikipedia I came across this study article today by Farb et al, that talks about two distinct neural networks in the brain that are involved in self-reference. To be fair, the networks are ...
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Splitting the self : "me" and "I":

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 6:29 am
Image via Wikipedia I came across this study article today by Farb et al, that talks about two distinct neural networks in the brain that are involved in self-reference. To be fair, the networks are ...
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A brief history of Neuroscience

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 1:38 am
Image via Wikipedia The Society for Neuroscience(SfN) was formed 40 years ago and to commemorate the occasion, the journal of Neuroscience has made some review articles open-access. They are written ...
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A brief history of Neuroscience

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 1:38 am
Image via Wikipedia The Society for Neuroscience(SfN) was formed 40 years ago and to commemorate the occasion, the journal of Neuroscience has made some review articles open-access. They are written ...
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Autism, Schizophrenia and CNV in 16p11.2

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 11:31 am
Image via Wikipedia There is a letter published in the advance online edition of Nature Genetics, that reports that microduplication of genes in the region 16p11.2 are associated with the risk of sc...
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Autism, Schizophrenia and CNV in 16p11.2

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 11:31 am
Image via Wikipedia There is a letter published in the advance online edition of Nature Genetics, that reports that microduplication of genes in the region 16p11.2 are associated with the risk of sc...
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Dopamine mediated 'sign' based learning

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 12:17 pm
There is an interesting must watch Video of Paul Phillips discussing dopamine based learning and I have embedded the video below. Please do have a look. Original video with some other relevant informa...
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Dopamine mediated 'sign' based learning

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 12:17 pm
There is an interesting must watch Video of Paul Phillips discussing dopamine based learning and I have embedded the video below. Please do have a look. Original video with some other relevant informa...
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A brief history of autism

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 10:22 am
Image via Wikipedia A mouse trap reader, using skribit, asked me to write a blog post about the history of madness; that is a dauting task, as she herself mentioned that Foucault wrote an entire book...
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A brief history of autism

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 10:22 am
Image via Wikipedia A mouse trap reader, using skribit, asked me to write a blog post about the history of madness; that is a dauting task, as she herself mentioned that Foucault wrote an entire book...
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The downside of cognitive enhancement

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 3:42 am
Jonah Lehrer, has an article in this week’s Nature News, (find a PDF here) , regarding 30 or so cognitively enhanced mice strains that have been bred and genetically engineered.  As Lehre...
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The downside of cognitive enhancement

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 21, 2009, 3:42 am
Jonah Lehrer, has an article in this week’s Nature News, (find a PDF here) , regarding 30 or so cognitively enhanced mice strains that have been bred and genetically engineered.  As Lehre...
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Rubber hand illusion and other videos from WatchKnow

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 11:43 am
Today I discovered a  new educational video portal,WatchKnow, that aggregates educational videos in categories. The psychology category has about 14 or so videos and one video that caught my ...
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Rubber hand illusion and other videos from WatchKnow

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 11:43 am
Today I discovered a  new educational video portal,WatchKnow, that aggregates educational videos in categories. The psychology category has about 14 or so videos and one video that caught my ...
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The new look of Mouse Trap

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 10:47 pm
Image by Joe Penniston via Flickr I am almost done with the new look of The Mouse Trap blog. I strongly encourage my RSS feed subscribers to come visit the new blog and give me feedback about the loo...
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The new look of Mouse Trap

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 10:47 pm
Image by Joe Penniston via Flickr I am almost done with the new look of The Mouse Trap blog. I strongly encourage my RSS feed subscribers to come visit the new blog and give me feedback about the loo...
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Migration to the new blog completed

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 2:02 pm
Migration from the old blogspot blog, to the new the-mouse-trap.com blog is now over. I’m posting this over at the new blog. Feeds have been properly migrated, so you should be reading this in y...
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Migration to the new blog completed

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 2:02 pm
Migration from the old blogspot blog, to the new the-mouse-trap.com blog is now over. I’m posting this over at the new blog. Feeds have been properly migrated, so you should be reading this in y...
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The Mouse Trap migrates to a new host

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 10:55 am
The Mouse Trap blog will henceforth move to self-hosted wordpress and can be accessed at the-mouse-trap.com . Please note the change in domain name . The existing RSS feed subscribers should not need ...
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Welcome to the new Mouse trap

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 11:35 pm
Hello Readers, Welcome to the all new The Mouse Trap.  Please note the new domain name http://the-mouse-trap.com . I will be juicing up the new mouse trap blog in a few days. Meanwhile please d...
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Welcome to the new Mouse trap

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 18, 2009, 11:35 pm
Hello Readers, Welcome to the all new The Mouse Trap.  Please note the new domain name http://the-mouse-trap.com . I will be juicing up the new mouse trap blog in a few days. Meanwhile please d...
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BAD09: the Psychology of trading carbon emissions and why it is misguided.

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 10:10 am
It is blog action day and the topic is climate change. today I want to focus on why carbon emissions trading is not the right approach. This is a small post inspired by something I read/watched recen...
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BAD09: the Psychology of trading carbon emissions and why it is misguided.

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 10:10 am
It is blog action day and the topic is climate change. today I want to focus on why carbon emissions trading is not the right approach. This is a small post inspired by something I read/watched recen...
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BAD09: the Psychology of trading carbon emissions and why it is misguided.

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 9:40 am
It is blog action day and the topic is climate change. today I want to focus on why carbon emissions trading is not the right approach. This is a small post inspired by something I read/watched recen...
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Dont Worry, Be Happy

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 11:29 pm
Today launches a new web portal called happier.com, that purports to be a personal trainer for your happiness. I have been beta-testing the site for some time (full disclosure : I got a free 30 day ac...
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Dont Worry, Be Happy

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 11:29 pm
Today launches a new web portal called happier.com, that purports to be a personal trainer for your happiness. I have been beta-testing the site for some time (full disclosure : I got a free 30 day ac...
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Dont Worry, Be Happy

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 10:59 pm
Today launches a new web portal called happier.com, that purports to be a personal trainer for your happiness. I have been beta-testing the site for some time (full disclosure : I got a free 30 day ac...
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Entrepreneurial rollercoaster- am happy, have vision; am sad, will focus on task

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 2:00 am
There is a recent article by foo et al, that shows , using Experience Sampling method, that entrepreneurs, when in a negative mood (not necessarily sad, but including anger, irritability etc…sor...
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Entrepreneurial rollercoaster- am happy, have vision; am sad, will focus on task

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 2:00 am
There is a recent article by foo et al, that shows , using Experience Sampling method, that entrepreneurs, when in a negative mood (not necessarily sad, but including anger, irritability etc…sor...
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Entrepreneurial rollercoaster- am happy, have vision; am sad, will focus on task

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 18, 2009, 1:30 am
There is a recent article by foo et al, that shows , using Experience Sampling method, that entrepreneurs, when in a negative mood (not necessarily sad, but including anger, irritability etc...sorry f...
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Living on the edge of chaos; implications for autism and psychosis

Sandeep G. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 9:38 am
Image via Wikipedia I serendipitously came cross this article today about how our brains are self-organized criticality or systems living on the edge of chaos. There are many interesting ideas and go...
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