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Brain-Behavior news from Anthony Risser, Ph.D., as started on Twitter (always Twitter, never X) as @neuropsychblog in 2009 and earlier via BrainBlog in 2004.
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Novo Nordisk shares slide after #Ozempic pill fails in #Alzheimer’s trials

#semaglutide #Phase3 #ClinicalTrials #psychopharmacology

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Novo Nordisk shares slide after Ozempic pill fails in Alzheimer’s trials
Report dashes hopes for new use for blockbuster weight-loss drug
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November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Janet Malcolm at the Kelly Writers House, with Al Filreis.

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janet malcolm and al filreis
kelly writers house university of pennsylvania (one of the best things about living in philadelphia is the KWH)
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Janet Malcolm
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Janet Malcolm
A last laugh.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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The American Psychological Association ( @apa on Twitter)
responds to the Rumpist/JuniorK changes to the #CDC re #vaccines and #autism ...

"Addressing Recent Misinfromation About Autism"

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Addressing Recent Misinformation About Autism
Recent statements from HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. contradict scientific consensus and potentially threaten essential research, services, and supports for autistic people.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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The American Academy of Neurology @aanmember.bsky.social responds to the Rumpist/JuniorK changes to the #CDC re #vaccines and #autism ...

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AAN response to CDC website changes on vaccines & autism
The American Academy of Neurology opposes the CDC's updated website statement suggesting that vaccines might cause autism, calling it a reversal of prior evidence-based guidance. The AAN has formally ...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Attentional failures during wakefulness after sleep deprivation are tightly orchestrated in a series of brain–body changes, including neuronal shifts, pupil constriction and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow pulsations

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Attentional failures after sleep deprivation are locked to joint neurovascular, pupil and cerebrospinal fluid flow dynamics - Nature Neuroscience
Yang et al. show that moments of failed attention we experience after sleep deprivation reflect brief ‘sleep-like’ episodes in the brain, corresponding to a brain- and body-wide event with altered bra...
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November 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Registration for the @insneuro.bsky.social (INS) International Neuropsychological Society meeting in Philadelphia is now open.

#neuropsychology #PHL
November 21, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Matthews Fund Applications are still open! Applications will be accepted until December 15. Funding decisions will be communicated at or after the INS Meeting in February 2026. Learn more and apply soon! the-ins.org/global-engag...
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Idiocy Event #2378889.83 -

#CDC website altered to reflect RFK Jr’s belief in link between #vaccines and #autism

Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage

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CDC website altered to reflect RFK Jr’s belief in link between vaccines and autism
Public health and autism specialists roundly condemn alteration to the ‘vaccine safety’ webpage
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November 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Hot off the press --- From Al Filreis and #ModPo

A Global Community grown from a classroom: Diversity, Multiculturalism, Inclusiveness, Social Justice ... and, of course, #Poetry!
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Happy Birthday, Joyce Maynard!
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un beau roman familial doublé d’une sévère critique de la première présidence Trump

https://www.europesays.com/fr/390133/

L’écrivaine américaine Joyce Maynard. JOANNA ELDREDGE MORRISSEY/PHILIPPE REY Lire plus tard Google Actualités Partager Facebook Bluesky E-mail Copier le lien Envoyer…
un beau roman familial doublé d’une sévère critique de la première présidence Trump - France | République française
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November 5, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Great Thunder
Christian Morrisseau ~ Anishinaabe
n.d.
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Tree Trunk
Emily Carr
c. 1935
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Icehouse, Coldwell Bay
A.J. Casson
1928
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Red Caribou Grazing
Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq
2016
November 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Gnat Pass, On the Arctic Watershed, South of Dease Lake, B.C.
Alan Collier
n.d.
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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New Orleans comes to Flushing. #NOLA

They are great - whether busking on Royal Street, playing sets at Maison on Frenchmen Street, or on the road!
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Tuba Skinny
11/8, 8pm
LeFrak Concert Hall
Tix: kupferbergcenter.org/event/tuba-s...
$32; 50% off for QC students! Discounts available.

Known for their musicianship & vintage New Orleans sound, this dynamic ensemble brings the spirit of early 20th-century Americana to life.
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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#neuropsychology
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Attending #NAN2025? Check out our 3rd year Kimberly’s paper presentation on relations among depressive symptoms, cognition, and everyday function this Thursday @ 9:15am! Can’t wait to learn from our neuropsychology colleagues in sunny LA! @neuropsychblog.bsky.social @khalberstadter.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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#Neuropsychology Fellowship Announcement:

The University of Iowa Department of Neurology is recruiting for its two-year APPCN-Member Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Clinical Neuropsychology. Learn more below and by visiting the fellowship website:
 
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October 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Owls in Moonlight
Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk
2007
October 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Morning Star
Robert Houle ~ Anishinaabe
1976
October 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Amazing crows 🐦‍⬛ 🖤
mollfw.bsky.social Felix W. Moll @mollfw.bsky.social · Sep 11
New paper on precise tool use learning in carrion crows @currentbiology.bsky.social. We show that—like New Caledonian crows—expert carrion crows pay close attention to the working end of their tool, suggesting tool integration into their peripersonal space. 🧵 & vids! 👇

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October 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Prepping for the teaching week ahead: Malnutrition syndromes, Bipolar Disorder medications, and Motor networks.

#neuropsychology #psychopharmacology
October 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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The White House’s mass firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease. www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...
‘It’s a massacre’: CDC battered by government shutdown firings
The White House’s mass firing of CDC staff on Friday has decimated offices related to injury prevention, respiratory disease surveillance, and chronic disease, according to four people familiar with t...
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October 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Almost the entire staff of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, known as the “voice of the CDC,” has been laid off, former publication editor-in-chief Charlotte Kent told STAT Saturday.
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Deep cuts made to CDC's flagship MMWR publication, a cornerstone of public health
CDC staff behind the agency’s flagship publication have been fired amid drastic cuts to the HHS promised by the White House due to the government shutdown, according to five people familiar with the s...
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October 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM