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The Neurocritic
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The Neurocritic is a personal blog at neurocritic.blogspot.com about science and health. Since 2010, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments link it for coverage of neuroscience and psychiatry studies, including a neuroscientist's psychopath story, a SARS-CoV-2 myelin loss study, and serotonin and depression research. None judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
This scientist seems to be using this Just So Story for self-promotion, and he has done so for years.[1][2] He has also attempted to profit personally.[3] He seems to have the expertise to know that this story is flimsy, and not well-founded in science. Using an unvalidated method in this way could be considered unethical itself. [4] Dr. Fallon's record of behavior might suggest a pattern of anti-social behavior. Hi…
Comment linking /2013/01/the-ethics-of-public-diagnosis-using.html
on “The Neuroscientist Who Discovered He Was a Psychopath”Submitted Why are the letters "z" and "x" so popular in drug names? as a story · 25 points
HN discussionYeah, at least one of the things they report is irrelevant. >Impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, decreased oligodendrocytes and myelin loss in subcortical white matter were evident at 1 week I can forgive them for not knowing that the great "Do adults humans have neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus (or EC)" debate has been pretty much ended. We don't. Adult humans don't make new neurons. Humans aren'…
Comment linking /2022/02/the-ongoing-debate-about-hippocampal.html
on “Mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause myelin loss in the brain”Submitted The Miraculous Guru with an h-index of 62 as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOkay, I'll bite: > Here's what the science says: "... antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance." With all due respect, read the paper you linked to! Here's what it says in the places you didn't quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant efficacy based on data fro…
Comment linking /2014/01/broaden-trial-of-dbs-for-treatment.html
on “Serotonin may not be a major factor in depression, study suggests”Submitted The “Six Feet Away” Rule Is Woefully Inadequate as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI have a similar story. All my life the letters of the alphabet each had a color associated with it. D is green and K is blue, etc. One day for no particular reason I decided to pay attention to which color each letter evoked in me. And to my great surprise, it was a simple-ass repeating pattern! Up until this point, I had never actually noticed it. And when I did notice it, it sparked a new mystery for me. I knew r…
Comment linking /2013/01/fisher-price-synesthesia.html?m=1
on “Sesame Street – Count to 12 [video]”Submitted Healing Prayer and the Brain: Not a Match Made in Heaven as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can Brain Activity Predict Criminal Reoffending? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted TDCS does not influence brain activity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vegas casino develops technique for ablation of the amygdala as a story · 1 points
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