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Monday, June 1, 2009

Nominees for the 2009 3QD Prize in Science

3 Quarks Daily 2009 Science Prize: Vote Here

For details of the prize you can look at the announcement here, and to read the nominated posts you can go here for a complete list with links. Voting ends at midnight on June 8, 2009.

Four posts from The Neurocritic were nominated:

The Neurocritic: Intersex (for lack of a better word)...
The Neurocritic: Mirror Neurons Control Hard-ons?
The Neurocritic: The Neurology of Twitter
The Neurocritic: Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience

Which one do you like best, dear readers? Please reply in the comments and vote online at 3QD. Of these, Voodoo Correlations in Social Neuroscience is currently in the lead with a grand total of 2 5 9 18 votes [I know, ~~very~~ sad] so why not you cast your vote for that entry? Any and all votes will be greatly appreciated! [but you can only vote once, so make it count.]

The voodoo post was one of many to highlight the controversial paper by Ed Vul and colleagues, since renamed "Puzzlingly High Correlations in fMRI Studies of Emotion, Personality, and Social Cognition" (PDF). The authors questioned the implausibly high correlations observed in some fMRI studies in the field of Social Neuroscience. A new look at the analytic methods revealed that over half of the sampled papers used faulty techniques to obtain their results. The authors' early online release of the accepted manuscript, combined with spirited debate in the blogosphere, caused many to praise (and damn) the role of blogs in discussing and critiquing peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Posts from other psych/neurobloggers were nominated as well, including entries from A Blog Around the Clock, Bioephemera, Cognitive Daily, Neurophilosophy, and Neurotopia. All excellent blogs.

Here, however, I would like to highlight three entries from blogs outside the ScienceBorg:

World of Psychology: Top Ten Online Psychology Experiments

NeuroWhoa!: Believer Brains Different from Non-Believer Brains?

The Mousetrap: Major conscious and unconscious processes in the brain: part 4: the easy problem of A-consciousness

Fox's New Show "Mental" Should Be Put Away

Vincent, the paranoid schizophrenic artist who draws little green men and has visual hallucinations [not the more typical auditory sort], was found screaming and wandering naked in traffic.

The summer replacement series with the un-PC name¹ is about life in a psychiatric inpatient unit:

MENTAL is a medical mystery drama featuring Dr. Jack Gallagher, a radically unorthodox psychiatrist who becomes Director of Mental Health Services at a Los Angeles hospital where he takes on patients battling unknown, misunderstood and often misdiagnosed psychiatric conditions. Gallagher delves inside their minds to gain a true understanding of who his patients are, allowing him to uncover what might be the key to their long-term recovery.

Unfortunately, the pilot episode was absolutely terrible, just one stereotype after another, with the brave unorthodox heroic psychiatrist opposing the shrew-like female staff and suggesting that herbs and acupuncture are the best treatment for paranoid schizophrenia.

Vincent the mental patient is unnaturally strong and cannot be subdued by several cops and hospital administrators. So the rakish Dr. Gallagher strips naked to gain his trust as a fellow human, joined together in the fight against the scary lizard people.

The acting was bad, the writing was awful, and the characters were unappealing. The situations were wildly unrealistic: psychiatry residents are sent on a house call (fact-finding mission), Gallagher is arrested for breaking into Vincent's home to see his outsider art, and the inexplicable charisma of Gallagher and his ways manages to change the mind of one female colleague who had actually resigned in protest (no matter that her turnaround was nearly nonsensical).

After breaking and entering, Dr. Gallagher views his patient's outsider art for the first time. The tortured artist Vincent had completely lost his creativity due to zombifying antipsychotic medications that, nonetheless, allowed him to function in society and live with his sister and her kids.

The show makes the unfortunate suggestion that drugs are all bad.² Gallagher guilt-trips the sister into accepting his new-age treatment plan for Vincent, who otherwise must make the ultimate sacrifice (loss of his artistic abilities, minimal though they are) of resuming medication.

And here's the drug-free Vincent, drawing for the first time in ages while his sister looks on.

Other choice critiques (via @blueberrio):

Nearly every line contained a stereotype, and many were damaging stereotypes. Unrealistic to the point of stigmatizing
I'll bet NAMI's Stigma Busters are all over #mental [not yet]
I was especially offended by the "nymphomaniac" elderly woman. Having sexual desires over age 65 is grounds for committal?

And via @aliciasparks:

i think they were trying to allude to some sort of extreme provocative behavior (or increased sex drive, as is sometimes...
..the case w/ conditions like bipolar disorder. but, they didn't elaborate very well, did they? plus, the cinematography...
...left a lot to be desired. some scenes just looked cheap (& not budget wise, if you know what i mean).

For more in-depth criticism, see Psychiatry's Unorthodoxies and Freakshows via Fox TV, which places the show in the historical context of "the asylum."

Footnotes

¹ Here's the Urban Dictionary on the term "mental":

mental crazy stupid retard insane retarded dumb psycho mad idiot nuts weird sick slow brain tard sex gay nutter moron disorder retarted physical special mind lunatic loser bitch silly fuck disease cool spastic loony idiotic strange random loco freak dumbass bonkers angry spaz ill funny fucked fat fag emo disabled depression
1. mental

meaning someone who is silly or stupid, usually for attention and in a random or sporadic way, involving nonsensical references and actions. usually violent or quick action involved, resulting in general amusement and hilarity of onlookers.

"hey look, archie's jumping off that cliff while holding a banana!"
"wow! he's mental!"

crazy silly stupid nonsensical attention seeking
by arto Oct 11, 2005

² This is not to deny that antipsychotics do, of course, have some very bad side effects.

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1.	mental
	meaning someone who is silly or stupid, usually for attention and in a random or sporadic way, involving nonsensical references and actions. usually violent or quick action involved, resulting in general amusement and hilarity of onlookers. "hey look, archie's jumping off that cliff while holding a banana!" "wow! he's mental!" crazy silly stupid nonsensical attention seeking by arto Oct 11, 2005