Neuroscience

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Will women stock exchange traders rescue Wall Street?

Denyse O'Leary | 23 August 2011 |

tags: economics, global financial crisis, neuroscience

The new science of neuroeconomics is making big claims. Can they be justified?

Does religion shrink your brain?

Denyse O'Leary | 01 August 2011 |

tags: neuroscience, religion

Some researchers argue that outspoken religious commitment is a sign of mild dementia.

Does religion rot teenagers’ brains?

Denyse O'Leary | 25 July 2011 |

tags: neuroscience, religion

Some religion researchers are amazingly ignorant of religion.

Are we all travelling incognito?

Denyse O'Leary | 21 June 2011 |

tags: crime, law, neuroscience

Does "my brain made me do it" seem like a good excuse in a court of law?

“Criminal brains” and what to do about them

Denyse O'Leary | 09 June 2011 |

tags: capital punishment, crime, neuroscience

The budding science of neurolaw could make the life or death of a prisoner dependent on a brain scan.

Morality for neurons

Denyse O'Leary | 01 April 2011 |

tags: materialism, morality, neuroscience

Can you build a system of moral behaviour on complete materialism? A famous neuroscientist gives it the old college try.

Delusions of gender

Denyse O'Leary | 18 November 2010 |

tags: feminism, gender, neuroscience

A dispatch from the gender wars: are there”male“ and “female” brains?

Liar, liar, brain on fire!

Michael Cook | 17 June 2010 |

tags: neuroscience

Can brain scans literally read your mind?

Brain scans and neurotrash

Denyse O'Leary | 24 November 2009 |

tags: neuroscience, phrenology, science

It's the ultimate branding strategy. Just slap "neuro" before a word and the goofiest speculation becomes respectable science. 

Better than human

Michael Cook | 17 December 2008 |

tags: neuroscience, transhumanism

Why is the world's most prestigious science journal peddling the snake oil of cognition-enhancing drugs?

Challenging the prejudice of materialism

Mario Beauregard and Denyse O’Leary | 29 September 2007 |

tags: atheism, neuroscience

A journalist and a neuroscientist maintain that morality and spirituality are more than electrical impulses in the brain.