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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com" target="_blank">Small Gray Matters</a><br /><span class="rss-item">of brains and their minds</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2009/09/17/plos-releases-metrics-for-all-papers/" title="This is pretty cool: the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a number of open-access top-tier journals (plus PLoS ONE, a not-so-top-tier journal), has just put metrics for all of its articles online. You can now see the number of citations, ..." target="_blank">PLoS releases metrics for all papers</a><br />');
document.write('This is pretty cool: the Public Library of Science (PLoS), which publishes a number of open-access top-tier journals (plus PLoS ONE, a not-so-top-tier journal), has just put metrics for all of its articles online. You can now see the number of citations, blog mentions, article views and PDF downloads for every PLoS article, so if you&#8217;ve published in one of the PLoS journals, you&#8217;re free to go find out just how many times your article&#8217;s been viewed compared to everyone else&#821...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2009/09/13/why-base-rates-matter/" title="Here are three recent scientific findings you may or may not have heard about: 1. The use of stimulant medications commonly prescribed for ADHD is associated with a nearly 8-fold increase in the likelihood of dying suddenly among children aged 7 &amp;#821..." target="_blank">why base rates matter</a><br />');
document.write('Here are three recent scientific findings you may or may not have heard about: 1. The use of stimulant medications commonly prescribed for ADHD is associated with a nearly 8-fold increase in the likelihood of dying suddenly among children aged 7 &#8211; 19. 2. Gum disease increases the risk of head and neck cancer quite dramatically: for every millimeter of alveolar bone loss (i.e., loss of the bone that surrounds the roots of your teeth), there is a 400% increase in the risk of cancer (note: ar...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2009/05/31/poldrack-on-the-limits-of-fmri/" title="Cerebrum, the Dana Foundation&amp;#8217;s neuroscience magazine, has a really nice article on the limits of fMRI by Russ Poldrack. You should go read it, but to summarize some of Poldrack&amp;#8217;s main points: fMRI studies tell us what&amp;#8217;s true..." target="_blank">Poldrack on the limits of fMRI</a><br />');
document.write('Cerebrum, the Dana Foundation&#8217;s neuroscience magazine, has a really nice article on the limits of fMRI by Russ Poldrack. You should go read it, but to summarize some of Poldrack&#8217;s main points: fMRI studies tell us what&#8217;s true of brain activation on the average, but we&#8217;re nowhere near the point where fMRI scans have diagnostic value at the level of individual subjects. Put another way, you may be able to tell that people with ADHD have somewhat different neural responses ...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2009/05/14/the-evil-that-shall-not-be-named/" title="Wolfram Alpha makes its debut on May 18th. I have to confess that after the pomposity with which Stephen Wolfram published his much-uncelebrated book &amp;#8220;A New Kind of Science&amp;#8221; seven year ago (an anniversary he celebrated rather pompously..." target="_blank">the evil that shall not be named ?looks pretty awesome.</a><br />');
document.write('Wolfram Alpha makes its debut on May 18th. I have to confess that after the pomposity with which Stephen Wolfram published his much-uncelebrated book &#8220;A New Kind of Science&#8221; seven year ago (an anniversary he celebrated rather pompously again today), I was sort of hoping Wolfram Alpha would fail to live up to the hype. But so far it&#8217;s looking pretty good. Here&#8217;s a screencast showing what Wolfram Alpha can do right now. While I&#8217;m sure the engine isn&#8217;t quite as f...');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://www.smallgraymatters.com/2009/05/13/python-fmri-love/" title="I was completely unaware of this until someone pointed it out to me the other day, but there&amp;#8217;s a really nice effort underway to develop a Neuroimaging package for Python: The neuroimaging in python (NIPY) project is an environment for the analys..." target="_blank">Python + fMRI = love</a><br />');
document.write('I was completely unaware of this until someone pointed it out to me the other day, but there&#8217;s a really nice effort underway to develop a Neuroimaging package for Python: The neuroimaging in python (NIPY) project is an environment for the analysis of structural and functional neuroimaging data. It currently has a full system for general linear modeling of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). This strikes me as a great project for a number of reasons (see this page for more):   Th...');
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