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Mind the gap: Development and validation of an evolutionary mismatched lifestyle scale and its impact on health and wellbeing
Identifying an integrative framework that could appropriately delineate underlying mechanisms and individual risk/protective factors for human health has remained elusive. Evolutionary mismatch theory...
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May 20, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Reward Processing by the Opioid System in the Brain
The opioid system consists of three receptors, mu, delta, and kappa, which are activated by endogenous opioid peptides processed from three protein precursors, proopiomelanocortin, proenkephalin, and ...
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May 19, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Corticotropin Releasing Factor: A Key Role in the Neurobiology of Addiction
Drug addiction is a chronically relapsing disorder characterized by loss of control over intake and dysregulation of stress-related brain emotional systems. Since the discovery by Wylie Vale and his c...
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May 19, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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www.nature.com/articles/130...
Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity - Neuropsychopharmacology
Neuropsychopharmacology - Drug Addiction as a Pathology of Staged Neuroplasticity
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May 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Behavioral Functions of the Mesolimbic Dopaminergic System: an Affective Neuroethological Perspective
The mesolimbic dopaminergic (ML-DA) system has been recognized for its central role in motivated behaviors, various types of reward, and, more recently, in cognitive processes. Functional theories hav...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Neurobiologic Processes in Drug Reward and Addiction
Neurophysiologic processes underlie the uncontrolled, compulsive behaviors defining the addicted state. These “hard-wired” changes in the brain are considered critical for the transition from casual t...
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May 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Evolutionary perspectives on substance and behavioural addictions: Distinct and shared pathways to understanding, prediction and prevention
Addiction poses significant social, health, and criminal issues. Its moderate heritability and early-life impact, affecting reproductive success, pose…
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May 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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arxiv.org/abs/1911.01547
On the Measure of Intelligence
To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intellige...
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May 4, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Reducing elevator energy use: A comparison of posted feedback and reduced elevator convenience

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May 4, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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networksciencebook.com/chapter/1
Network Science by Albert-László Barabási
The power of network science, the beauty of network visualization.
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May 4, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...
Frontiers | The Relationship Between Uncertainty and Affect
Uncertainty and affect are fundamental and interrelated aspects of the human condition. Uncertainty is often associated with negative affect, but in some cir...
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May 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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doi.org/10.1038/s415...
The interactive role of odor associations in friendship preferences - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - The interactive role of odor associations in friendship preferences
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May 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Kiki or Bouba? (Published 2023)
Nearly a century after a landmark psychology study was conducted, we revisit its findings — with your help!
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April 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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arxiv.org/abs/2411.02272
Combining Induction and Transduction for Abstract Reasoning
When learning an input-output mapping from very few examples, is it better to first infer a latent function that explains the examples, or is it better to directly predict new test outputs, e.g. using...
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April 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice

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CSDL | IEEE Computer Society
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April 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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How Online Privacy Is Like Fishing
In the wake of a Microsoft spying controversy, it’s time for an ecosystem perspective
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April 20, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Algorithmic Harm: Protecting People in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Will algorithms help people or hurt them? What about artificial intelligence in general? If consumers know what they need to know and do not suffer from behavio
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April 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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How Pesticide Companies Corrupted the EPA and Poisoned America
Pesticide manufacturers that have long dodged regulation by the EPA now face billions in damages for causing cancer, brain damage, and Parkinson’s disease.
theintercept.com
April 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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arxiv.org/abs/2410.03703
Human Creativity in the Age of LLMs: Randomized Experiments on Divergent and Convergent Thinking
Large language models are transforming the creative process by offering unprecedented capabilities to algorithmically generate ideas. While these tools can enhance human creativity when people co-crea...
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April 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Omission Bias - The Decision Lab
The omission bias refers to our tendency to react more strongly to harmful actions than to harmful inactions, and judge them to be less moral.
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March 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Many apparent disagreements over the utility of neural manifolds come from a lack of clarity on what the term really encompasses, argues @mattperich.bsky.social

#neuroskyence

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Neural manifolds: Latest buzzword or pathway to understand the brain?
When you cut away the misconceptions, neural manifolds present a conceptually appropriate level at which systems neuroscientists can study the brain.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The Systemic Risk of #ESG Investment

This chapter investigates the relationship between U.S. #financial institutions’ ESG investment and systemic risk from 2010-2020.

Author: G. Nathan Dong

Read more: http://spkl.io/63325fQOfh
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March 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A Practical Framework for Investing in Ethical Capital: Economic Insights for #Business

This paper reimagines #economic value systems by prioritizing collective well-being, transparency & ecological sustainability.

Author: Madhu Prabakaran

Read more: http://spkl.io/63329fQOFD
#EconSky
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March 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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This finding could lead to treatments for neurological diseases

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Marathon runners tap brain-cell insulation for racetime fuel
MRI scans suggest runners’ brains might use the fatty substance myelin as fuel. The finding could lead to treatments for neurological diseases.
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March 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Beyond the Status Quo: A Critical Assessment of Lifecycle Investment Advice
<div> We challenge two tenets of lifecycle investing: (i) diversify across stocks and bonds and (ii) <span>reduce equity allocations with age.  An op
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March 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM