Wiring the Brain Archive
Neural Development / Innateness
Probabilistic inheritance and neurodevelopmental phenotypes: location, location, location
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Robustness and fragility in neural development
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Nerves of a feather wire together
Jump-starting regeneration of injured nerves
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Does brain plasticity trump innateness?
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Somatic mutations make twins’ brains less identical
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Self-organising principles in the nervous system
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Ancient origins of the cerebral cortex
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Migrating neurons clear their path
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LRR proteins help neurons find a partner
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Cell Fate and Connectivity Intertwined
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Noisy genes and the limits of genetic determinism
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Human Genetics and Genomics
Missing heritability found safe and well
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Lessons for human genetics from genetic screens in model organisms
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On genetic causality: forwards and backwards
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The dark arts of statistical genomics
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The genetics of emergent phenotypes
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I’ve got your missing heritability right here…
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Somatic mutations make twins’ brains less identical
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Searching for a needle in a needle-stack
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Noisy genes and the limits of genetic determinism
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Neurodevelopmental disorders
What have we learned from psychiatric genetics? The view from 2022.
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If genomics is the answer, what's the question? A commentary on PsychENCODE
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Life after GWAS – where to next, for psychiatric genetics?
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Genetics in psychiatry - hope or hype?
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Is a polygenic model of schizophrenia genetics really proven?
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The Genetics of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
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Autism, epidemiology, and the public perception of evidence
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Autism: The Truth is (not) Out There
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Exciting findings in schizophrenia genetics – but what do they mean?
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"Common disorders" are really collections of rare genetic conditions
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Why have genetic linkage studies of schizophrenia failed?
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Are human brains especially fragile?
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Probabilistic inheritance and neurodevelopmental phenotypes: location, location, location
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Split brains, autism and schizophrenia
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Environmental influences on autism - splashy headlines from dodgy data
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Complex interactions among epilepsy genes
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New insights into Rett syndrome
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Searching for a needle in a needle-stack
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Defining developmental disorders through genetics
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What is a “neurodevelopmental disorder”?
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Is Mental Illness Good For You?
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Why Johnny can’t read (but Jane can)
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What’s in a name? Genetic overlap between major psychiatric disorders
Philosophical issues
Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 4 - Loosening the treaties of fate
Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 3 - Where do intentions come from?
Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 2 - assessing the scientific evidence
Undetermined - a response to Robert Sapolsky. Part 1 - a tale of two neuroscientists
What questions should a real theory of consciousness encompass?
Getting to the bottom of reductionism – is it all just physics in the end?
The evolution of meaning – from pragmatic couplings to semantic representations.
The riddle of emergence – where do novel things come from?
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Does quantum indeterminism defeat reductionism?
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Does freedom bubble up from the quantum realm?
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Escaping Flatland - when determinism falls, it takes reductionism with it
How much innate knowledge can the genome encode?
Beyond reductionism – systems biology gets dynamic
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Were the principles of life invented or discovered?
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Understanding understanding – could an A.I. cook meth?
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Genetics is Karma - Western science meets Eastern philosophy
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Why do lemons taste sour? The puzzle of innate qualia
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Panpsychism – not even wrong. Or is it?
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Top-down causation and the emergence of agency
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Reductionism! Determinism! Straw-man-ism!
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On discovering you’re an android
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Sex
A sinister attractor – why males are more likely to be left-handed
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Debunking the male-female brain mosaic
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Sex on the brain – a tale of two studies
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Gay genes? Yeah, but no, well kind of… but, so what?
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Sexual orientation – wired that way
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Sexual orientation – in the genes?
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Why Johnny can’t read (but Jane can)
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Perception, Synaesthesia
Schema formation in synaesthesia
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Popping the hood on synaesthesia – what’s going on in there?
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Coloured hearing in Williams syndrome
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Blue bananas and pink elephants
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Hello, stranger! (on face blindness)
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Synesthesia: crossed wires or free association?
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Genetics in Society, Eugenics
Eugenics, statistical hubris, and unknowable unknowns in human genetics
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Is your future income written in your DNA?
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“Like father, like son”: Testing folk beliefs about heredity in the arena of assisted reproduction
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The genetics of educational attainment
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Genetics in Modern Medicine – the Future is Now
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The New Eugenics – same as the Old Eugenics?
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GATTACA and the coming future of genetic screening
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Genes, brains and human nature; the joys and challenges of writing about science for non-scientists.
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Bad Science
On conceptual rigor: “What do we take ourselves to be doing?”
Go big or stay home! Small neuroimaging association studies just generate noise.
Telling good science from bad – a user’s guide to navigating the scientific literature
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The murderous brain - can neuroimaging really distinguish murderers?
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Calibrating scientific skepticism – a wider look at the field of transgenerational epigenetics
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Debunking the male-female brain mosaic
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Sex on the brain – a tale of two studies
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On literature pollution and cottage-industry science
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Autism, epidemiology, and the public perception of evidence
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The Trouble with Epigenetics, Part 3 – over-fitting the noise
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The Trouble with Epigenetics (Part 2)
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The Trouble with Epigenetics (Part 1)
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Environmental influences on autism - splashy headlines from dodgy data
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Miscellaneous
Reflections on “Systems – the Science of Everything”
How many neurons does it take to change a lightbulb?
Corvid consciousness – computation, cognition, or comprehension?
Are bigger bits of brains better?
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The surprising real genetics behind the X-Men
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When to blame your parents, and for what
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Hub neurons spotted in the wild
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Psst!… Pass it on! Cortical communication via the thalamus
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Bad to the bone; altered connections in the brains of psychopaths
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Visualising Connections in the Human Brain
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