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Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.
Your brain isn't alone in processing emotion - it needs your body, too! Find out how the brain and body interact in processing emotions at Bill Yates's blog Brain Posts: Brain and Gut in Processing Emotion
Over at Inkfish, Elizabeth Preston hits another one outta' the park: Aesop's Crows Understand Physics, Literature
Neuroskeptic points out that, "antipsychotic use in Canadian children and teens is rising dramatically - prescriptions more than doubled in just 4 years, from 2005 to 2009." Find out why: Young, Canadian and on Antipsychotics
A handful of disorders have been hypothesized to involve a "disconnection," or a reduction in connectivity among brain areas. Find out what disconnection might be behind psychopathy over at Neurocritic: The Disconnection of Psychopaths.
That's it for this week... Check back next week for more great psychology and neuroscience blogging!