2010-04-16 Spike activity

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:

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Should kids be bribed to do well in school? asks Time magazine. Oldest trick in the book tested out by researchers.

Neurophilosophy covers a study finding that wrinkle smoothing Botox injections may diminish the experience of emotion owing to their paralysing effect on facial muscles.

There's an article that traces the history of placebo controlled studies back through tests of mesmerism into their origin in Christian exorcism rites in The...