Neurology Center

Baroness Susan Greenfield has been taking a lot of flak these past few days for her comments about Facebook and computers in general:If the young brain is exposed from the outset to a world of fast action and reaction, of instant new screen images flashing up with the press of a key, such rapid interchange might accustom the brain to operate over such timescales. Perhaps when in the real world such...

Saturday saw the Guardian on fine form with a classic piece of bad neuro-journalism which made it all the way onto the front page: Psychologists find gene that helps you look on the bright side of lifeThose unfortunate enough to lack the 'brightside gene' are more likely to suffer from mental health problems such as depression What the research actually found was...

"Women, the weaker sex... at resisting food, researchers find". This appeared in the Daily Mail a while back. This headline was based on a neuroimaging experiment, which, predictably, didn't prove anything of the kind. Yawn. I've written about this kind of thing before, and no doubt I will do again. But why do I do it? What's the harm in this kind of thing?A cynic might say that this kind of thing...