Confirmation bias, false syllogisms and straight out nonsense: a critique of research and beliefs with worked examples from our current studies.
Speaker: Professor Peter Nestor
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland
Title: Confirmation bias, false syllogisms and straight out nonsense: a critique of research and beliefs with worked examples from our current studies.
Abstract: Our lab works on building knowledge about human neurodegenerative diseases to improve diagnostic accuracy and inform mechanistic understanding of how these diseases affect the brain. Because all of our work involves humans with diseases, and we are often focused on young-onset disease and less common phenotypes, it can take some time to build numbers to a critical level to answer research questions. As such, we tend to have a range of projects running in different diseases in parallel. I shall discuss some of our recent finding with brain imaging, in Lewy body diseases and in frontotemporal dementia.
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