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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week:One Death Too ManyClinical neuropsychologist Vaughan Bell criticises the sensationalist media coverage of Robin Williams' suicide. Addressing newspaper editors, Bell says: "you ... have a personal and professional responsibility to ensure that you are not putting people at risk by your need to sell copy."The Science Behind Suicide ContagionMargot Sanger-Katz for the NYT summarises the relevant science, but she also wonders if suicide reporting guidelines are out-of-date and unrealistic.Image of the Week: Wiring of the Human BrainFrom Wellcome Images and taken by Zeynep Saygin: "A bird’s-eye view of nerve fibres in a normal, healthy adult human brain."Malcolm Gladwell on Desert Island DiscsThe pop psychology author was BBC Radio 4's most recent cast-away (listen again on iPlayer).Our Microbiome May Be Looking Out for ItselfYour body is full of bacteria that might be controlling your behaviour.Why I Live in Mortal Dread of Public SpeakingNewly released TED talk by singer-songwriter Megan Washington.Darwin's Neuroscientist: Gerald M. Edelman, 1929–2014Anil Seth pens an obituary to his former mentor, nobel laureate and "scientific great" who "quoted Woody Allen and Jascha Heifetz as readily as Linus Pauling and Ludwig Wittgenstein".The First Smile"Why do laughter, smiles and tears look so similar?" asks Michael Graziano. "Perhaps because they all evolved from a single root."Society: Don't Blame The Moth...
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