Peter Moleman

@MolemanPeter
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Hersenvorser, Brain explorer
R. Feynman: I’m an explorer? I get curious about everything, and I want to investigate all kinds of stuff.
I have been a psychopharmacologist and professor of Biological Aspects of Psychopathology until my retirement in 2013. Now I study the brain and write short assays, see website. I am also writing a book (provisional title: Our Brain, the Body of the Mind). I use mastodon to keep up with developments in the field. Please toot your publications with #neuroscience
Websitehttps://breininactie.com/the-brain-in-action/
Peter MolemanDec 12, 2022
My blog "Seeing with your mind's eye" https://breininactie.com/minds-eye/ #neuroscience #aphantasia
Seeing with your mind's eye: not for everyone - Brein in Action

I search for my misplaced iPhone inside my head, looking with my mind's eye. How does my brain do that? And what is aphantasia?

Brein in Action
Peter MolemanDec 7, 2022
Autism is 90% heritable, height 80%, BMI1 60%, depression 40%, breast cancer 30%. If you are 6 feet tall, does 80% heritability mean that about 4’10” is determined by your DNA and 1’2” by something else? Obviously this is absurd. But what does a percentage mean? https://breininactie.com/obesity-heritability/ #genetics
Obesity is 60% heritable. And this means ... - Brein in Action

Establishing how heritable a trait such as obesity, autism or musical talent, or a disease such as depression or breast cancer is impossible.

Brein in Action
Peter MolemanOct 31, 2022
RT @EthicsInBricks
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”
- Hannah Arendt