José Viosca Ros

PhD in Neuroscience, Writer, Data Scientist

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On the Roots of Overweight: Nature or Nurture?

By using multiple linear regression and machine learning, I analyze if family history or lifestyle is more important to shape a person’s body mass index.

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Posted 2 months ago 1 December, 2022
Artificial Intelligence,
Health,
Molecules & genes,
Obesity,
Python
Science popularization
SciLogs.es

Is everything we know about depression wrong?

A book published recently contains ideas that bring more harm than good to patients.

Posted 5 years ago 6 February, 2018
Health,
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

Meaningful and sensible placebos

A clinical use of placebos would pose an ethical dilemma. Open-label placebos might be an answer. Series: the placebo effect (3/3)

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Posted 7 years ago 2 May, 2016
Health,
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

Mapping placebo: learning to self-care

While some scientists have found that placebos may act as moderate analgesics under certain circumstances, and even that such a response can be acquired through a learning intervention, other scientists remain sceptical. Series: the placebo effect (2/3).

 en
Posted 7 years ago 20 April, 2016
Health,
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

Mapping placebo: physiology and belief boundaries

What is the placebo effect? Is it a real therapeutic possibility? Is it desirable? Is it avoidable? Series: the placebo effect (1/3)

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Posted 7 years ago 11 April, 2016
Health,
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

A Renaissance brain

A journey on Leonardo da Vinci´s anatomical drawings of the nervous system.

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Posted 7 years ago 4 April, 2016
Art & science,
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

Neuronal fingerprints of premeditated violence

Researchers discover neurons that mediate the early stages of aggressive behaviour in the mouse brain.

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Posted 7 years ago 28 March, 2016
Neuroscience
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

A pulse in the Mediterranean diet

Science shows that a Mediterranean diet rich in legumes and vegetables improves heart health. Now, researchers are exploring what are the mechanisms responsible for such effects.

 en
Posted 7 years ago 14 March, 2016
Health
Science popularization
Mapping Ignorance

The brain on prejudice

No centre for mental bias exists in the brain, research finds. Instead, the same areas process information more slowly when falling into a bias.

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Posted 7 years ago 7 March, 2016
Neuroscience

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