Battle of the mind

Battle for the Mind

The appearance of this book in a cheap edition is to be heartily welcomed and we hope it will be widely read?especially by those misled by earlier reviews into thinking it a violent attack on religion-It is of course nothing of the kind, but sets out to study the psychological mechanisms involved in certain forms of "religious conver-sion" as well as in psychotherapy and in "brain-washing". It ...

Cognitive Hacking: A Battle for the Mind

O n 25 August 2000, stockholders were stunned by news that Emulex, a server and storage provider, was revising its earnings from a $.25 per share gain to a $.15 loss and that it was lowering its reported net earnings from the previous quarter as well. The press release, which business news services like Dow Jones, Bloomberg, and CBS MarketWatch were distributing, went on to state that CEO Paul ...

Metaphysics or science: The battle for the soul of philosophy of mind

Battle for the mind: World War 1 and the birth of military psychiatry.

The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War 1 could be viewed as a tempting opportunity to acknowledge the origins of military psychiatry and the start of a journey from psychological ignorance to enlightenment. However, the psychiatric legacy of the war is ambiguous. During World War 1, a new disorder (shellshock) and a new treatment (forward psychiatry) were introduced, but the former ...

A Custody Battle for the Mind: Evidence for Extensive Imprinting in the Brain

Relatively few genes (approximately 100) have previously been shown to be imprinted such that their expression in progeny derives from either the maternal or paternal copy. Two recent studies by Gregg et al. (2010a, 2010b) in Science expand this list by an order of magnitude, revealing complex patterns of parent-of-origin bias in gene expression in the brain that are developmentally and regiona...