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Archive for robot caregivers

“The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition)”—Your Brain on Bad Relationships

If you lived in the US back in the 1980s, you’re probably familiar with this tagline: “This is your brain on drugs … any questions?” This tagline came from a series of TV PSAs (public service ads) sponsored by Partnership for a Drug-Free America. The ad I remember featured a guy who looked like a […]

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Affordable Ashmordable … What About Desirable Care?

I applaud efforts to make healthcare affordable, but in this blog post I’d like to offer up a caution: “As we make healthcare in specific and care in general more affordable, will it still remain desirable?” Looked at another way, does it make sense to make something that is quickly becoming undesirable, affordable? Should we be […]

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Quick Update: Japan’s Chatty Humanoid and a Migraine that Goes Viral

In my post of February 16th, 2011, entitled How Much Do You Know About What You Don’t Know? I talk about how my own experience with migraine headaches demonstrates how we can know something about what we don’t know. At about the same time I was writing my post, a video showing a reporter in […]

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