<story><title>The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-rp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarbecue</author><text>Weird to see this article doing the rounds again. I&amp;#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time with Alex (climbing, doing jigsaw puzzles, etc). He&amp;#x27;s totally normal, just strong, motivated, and disciplined. Nautilus publishes a lot of pseudoscience that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be accepted in a peer-reviewed journal, and this is perfect example. A claim of reading personality based on fMRI study of a single person&amp;#x27;s brain, which shows slightly different bloodflow amounts in a particular place. NB: I haven&amp;#x27;t talked to him about this article so don&amp;#x27;t know what his opinion is on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kahirsch</author><text>Dr. Joseph has published about this topic in peer-reviewed journals.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3637656&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3637656&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;quot;Too little, too late or too much, too early? Differential hemodynamics of response inhibition in high and low sensation seekers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3150539&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&amp;#x2F;pmc&amp;#x2F;articles&amp;#x2F;PMC3150539&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
&amp;quot;Neural Correlates of Emotional Reactivity in Sensation Seeking&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber (2016)</title><url>http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-rp</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>foobarbecue</author><text>Weird to see this article doing the rounds again. I&amp;#x27;ve spent a fair amount of time with Alex (climbing, doing jigsaw puzzles, etc). He&amp;#x27;s totally normal, just strong, motivated, and disciplined. Nautilus publishes a lot of pseudoscience that wouldn&amp;#x27;t be accepted in a peer-reviewed journal, and this is perfect example. A claim of reading personality based on fMRI study of a single person&amp;#x27;s brain, which shows slightly different bloodflow amounts in a particular place. NB: I haven&amp;#x27;t talked to him about this article so don&amp;#x27;t know what his opinion is on it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RaceWon</author><text>I know personally my body has (seemingly) felt fear independent of my mind, and I have heard other drivers talk about this too. Typically this happens when you (think you) know you can execute a corner flat out, yet your foot lifts off the throttle just a bit all by itself; is one example that springs to mind.&lt;p&gt;I wonder how climbers overcome this?</text></comment>