Neuro News Nanos: Weekend Edition

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Here are this weekend’s:

* Fibromyalgia and fMRI — if a fibromyalgia sufferer experiences higher pain levels than a normal person, does it matter that the pain is a result of a specific organic cause or a cycle of expectations of pain? — “Since the placebo effect is all about expectations, the patient must believe that the drug is, in fact, highly effective.”

* Is averageness or symmetry more important in facial attractiveness? — just averageness was important for women — for men, both mattered

* Rethink Blink — “Dijksterhuis’s studies and the points made by Gladwell in his book Blink can’t be discounted.” — “Although unconscious thought may not be superior to conscious thought, it is frequently not that inferior.”

* Thinking you’re blushing makes you blush more — an uncomfortable cycle of self-consciousness and negative social expectations — sounds like my Friday night

* Five discoveries made while dreaming — “Yesterday” — Frankenstein