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Most of us have found ourselves in situations in which, when dealing with creativity issues, the solution failed to appear right there on the spot, but rather all of a sudden, after a while of not paying attention to them. This is how we instantly knew how to solve a certain math problem, continue the song we started... |
6 October 2008
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A new research advises us not to trust the legend of our multitasking, since we're not at all able to do more things at the same time consciously.The same study stresses on the emergence of an adjacent unique ability that propelled us to an evolutionary edge - the humans' capacity of toggling their att... |
3 October 2008
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A recent study indicates that musical training determines musicians to yield higher IQ scores than their non-musician counterparts. This is due to the fact that they tend to use both of their brain sides more frequently than regular people.Crystal Gibson, Bradley Folley and Sohee Park, psychologists from the Vanderbi... |
3 October 2008
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The theory according to which we all have an inner genius waiting to be discovered has been addressed now by a team of scientists that built a device that affects the brain activity through a series of magnetic impulses. They are hoping to tap more of the brain's potential with their newly-developed cap.So far, ... |
30 September 2008
10:44 GMT |
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It has always been marketed and believed that light cigarettes only deliver smaller quantities of nicotine to the brain receptors than the regular ones. A recent study proves otherwise, specifically that the nicotine impact of the two cigarette types is sensitively similar.A new UCLA research has proved that the fact... |
29 September 2008
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This week records yet another major breakthrough event, as the University of Southampton in UK begins the world's biggest study on near-death experiences to date. As a matter of fact, "begins" is not the most accurate choice, since the AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is already past pilot phase... |
11 September 2008
10:15 GMT |
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Human memory has been previously tested, but not to the extent of this experiment developed and performed by people from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). They managed to prove that the 14 people involved in the test were able to remember specific details about almost 3.000 pictures they were presented. &n... |
9 September 2008
10:16 GMT |
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If you have a bladder disorder, you're also likely to have unusual brain activity, say the results of an experiment involving rats with overactive bladders. And if this is true for rats, then humans with this disorder could also suffer significant changes in the activity of the brain, which could help explain so... |
24 July 2008
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If you want to inspect an object thoroughly, hold it in your hands - that should keep you occupied for a while. Psychologists at the Washington University who have recently showed that an object within the grasp of our hands is much closer investigated than an object in the distance, affecting our perception and the ... |
14 July 2008
06:28 GMT |
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The brain's ability to make fast decisions in threatening situations may sometimes literally make the difference between life and death. In our more primitive past this would have translated into fast decisions destined to help us escape from the claws of a predator; the situation is analogue even today, even if... |
9 July 2008
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Based on more than a decade of research and findings by Dr. Mark Baldwin of esteemed McGill University in Montreal, MindHabits is a new game for Mac which presents simple but fun challenges for maintaining a more positive state of mind.Tests run by Dr. Baldwin showed obvious positive results for the subjects. Those r... |
3 July 2008
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Most people would eat almost anything today, as long as it tastes good and it fills up their bellies, regardless of how healthy it is, the nutritional values or the bunch of chemicals they swallow up. No wonder that the US is currently facing a serious obesity epidemic - people suddenly forgot that food has a nutriti... |
3 July 2008
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The fact that a patient's mood can affect the way cancer tumors evolve in time is far from being a myth anymore, it's a certified fact. Scientific studies showed more than once that patients with an overall calm attitude towards the disease they are fighting have a better chance of decreasing the rate the c... |
11 June 2008
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ENIAC versus a modern digital computer - which one is faster? Well, ENIAC weighed about 27 tons and filled several rooms while a modern computer weighs less than ten kilograms and you can fill a single room with several hundreds of them, so if we were to judge the computing power according to size then ENIAC would ce... |
9 June 2008
05:23 GMT |
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If you were among those who thought eating was only designed for the pleasure (or on the contrary, the extreme distress) of our digestive tract and our figures, think again - as a recent study has come up with a rather surprising conclusion. Eating, say scientists from the Cambridge University in Britain, can be the ... |
6 June 2008
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The parts of the brain affected by long-term, heavy cannabis use are those where memory and the regulation of emotion functions reside. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging of the brain of 15 men who have been smoking at least five joints per day for periods of time at least 10 years long compared to that of pe... |
3 June 2008
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As opposed to other cephalopods, the Chambered Nautilus has a relatively small brain and according to a new experiment it may have a simple memory as well, just enough to remember a particular event that took place several hours back, such as a flash of light that is associated with food."We were quite surprised to s... |
2 June 2008
11:17 GMT |
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The human brain only makes sense of the images we are seeing about one-tenth of a second after light hits the retina, meaning that in fact our visual system is somehow impaired by neural lag, for which the brain must compensate. How this is done is still under debate, with some scientists proposing that the motor sys... |
2 June 2008
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A new study investigating the relation between lead exposure during childhood and later antisocial behavior showed that lead contamination can be used to predict whether or not an individual will get in trouble with the law during adulthood. The investigation was led by Kim Dietrich from the University of Cincinnati ... |
28 May 2008
06:24 GMT |
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Getting no sleep can be the main reason of one's zombie-like behavior, meaning, for sleepwalking. "Sleepwalkers should keep a regular bedtime to avoid unwanted evening strolls," said Antonio Zadra of the Universit de Montral, lead researcher of a study published in the Annals of Neurology journal, a study that... |
12 May 2008
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Anorexia is not necessarily an issue exclusively connected to food ingestion. More than an eating disease, it is a mental problem. A new research published in the Psychosomatic Medicine medical journal connects anorexia nervosa with an increased risk of suicide. "Suicidal ideas and behaviors by anyone with anorexia n... |
9 May 2008
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Russian researchers with the Southern Federal University are working on a mind-control headset that would allow human users to interact with their computers using the power of thought. The project secured $750,000 in funds and will unfold in an 18-month timeframe.The research is conducted by a team of Rostov engineer... |
8 May 2008
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An abused child does not have only an impaired behavior, but also a structurally different brain. That happens because early child abuse appears to permanently change gene expression in the brain, as pointed by a postmortem investigation of suicide victims, recently published in the Nature Neuroscience journal. It is... |
8 May 2008
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For decades, mercury pollution has been linked to many diseases. This heavy metal is known to attack the nervous system. With all that, a new study published in the Health & Place journal connects industrial mercury pollution to higher risk of autism and, for the first time ever, reveals a link between autism risk an... |
8 May 2008
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Being called "shorty" is hard to stand as it is. But this is probably the least of concerns: people with shorter arms and legs are more prone to Alzheimer's disease, probably because of a low quality of nutrition in childhood, as revealed by a new study published in the Neurology journal. "Arm span and knee heig... |
7 May 2008
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This gut-released hormone has already been called "the hunger hormone" but what we must know about it is that ghrelin not only increases appetite, it also makes you perceive food as more appealing, as signaled by a new research published in the Cell Metabolism journal. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of ... |
7 May 2008
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Currently, in many western countries, less than 1% of women breastfeed continuously for the first six months of the baby's life. In the UK, the category most prone to breastfeeding was found to be formed of well educated, professional women, older than 30 and mothers for the first time. The fear of ending up wit... |
6 May 2008
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Modern life and the rapid pace at which it evolves have created many unadapted individuals. At the moment, over 121 million people worldwide experience severe depression, which is also the main cause of suicide. Annually, more people commit suicide than are killed in wars, terrorist attacks and homicides. Worldwide, ... |
6 May 2008
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The Nintendo DS handheld console was and will probably be the system where brain training games feel at home. However, this doesn't mean it will be holding a monopoly for long, especially since this kind of games manage to bring in the big bucks. Recently, the Xbox 360 consoles have received their first brain tr... |
6 May 2008
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It is clear that alcohol consumption can turn a gentleman into a rude beast. For the first time, a new research study published in The Journal of Neuroscience explains why. Social drinkers intoxicated with alcohol have lowered sensitivity in brain nuclei controlling threat detection, while displaying higher activity ... |
30 April 2008
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Few people are in any way like Napoleon and that happens because on average our conscious mind, based on working memory, can juggle with a maximum of 3 to 4 items at a time, informs the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal. Working memory is a temporary storage place for information, the data that ... |
30 April 2008
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Why does money make one feel powerful? The answer to this question can be found in that profit and power have the same brain nucleus: the striatum, that is already associated with reward. These are the results of brain-scanning researches, published in the journal Neuron, for the first time looking for a connection m... |
29 April 2008
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It seems that a big brain does not mean only higher intelligence, but also a longer life, according to a new research published in the Journal of Human Evolution. The largest brain of a terrestrial animal is that of the elephant, weighing 10.5 pounds (4.78 kg). And the elephants are known to live up to 60 and more. S... |
22 April 2008
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Teens may become hooked on cocaine and, once rehabilitated, relapse more rapidly than adults because their developing brains are more sensitive to drug-related cues. At least in the case of rats, this holds true. A new study carried out at McLean Hospital, the largest psychiatric facility at Harvard Medical School, a... |
22 April 2008
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This drug is better known as an antidepressant. But Prozac has been found by a new study published in the journal Science to restore old brain cells to a more plastic youthful stage. "The work raises the distant prospect that it could be used to treat other conditions caused by malfunction of brain cells. One of them... |
21 April 2008
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1. The largest brain belongs to the sperm whale: 7 kg (17.5 kg). The blue whale, the largest animal on the planet, being twice longer and thrice heavier, has a brain weighing 5 kg (12.5 pounds). 2. Human brain has an average weight of 2.7 pounds (1.2 kg), variations between 1.1 and 1.4 kg being considered normal. Our... |
21 April 2008
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There is a large array of recent researchers unveiling the differences between the male and female brain. A new research published in the journal Cell shows the opposite, that the two genders have a largely unisex brain. The researchers managed to trigger artificially the neurons controlling singing, a male only acti... |
19 April 2008
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We know that pork is not very healthy, but pig brain proves harmful in a very unexpected way. 18 pork plant workers in Minnesota, 5 in Indiana and 1 in Nebraska have been detected so far with a mysterious neurological disease got while removing brains from slaughtered pigs, as signaled at the American Academy of Neur... |
18 April 2008
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Bad news. Having a big belly seems to mean that you'll have an even bigger one. A new research published in the FASEB Journal and carried out by a team led by Dr. Kaiping Yang at the Lawson Health Research Institute affiliated with the University of Western Ontario shows that abdominal fat tissue synthesizes a h... |
17 April 2008
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You don't have to wait for the age of speech learning. A team led by Professor of Neuroscience April Benasich, at Infancy Studies Laboratory at Rutgers University in Newark, found just how the brains of 3-month old infants differentiate sounds signal language issues.The methods developed by this team can assess ... |
16 April 2008
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It's clear that exposing an unborn child to drugs, alcohol and tobacco affects its brain development. This is supported by too many researches. In these cases, mothers don't limit themselves to one substance, and other factors like poverty can affect brain development as well.A new research published in the... |
14 April 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Beer or wine? A new Swedish research carried out at the Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg and published in BJS bets on the wine. Started in 1968 and made on 1,458 women, the survey revealed this alcoholic beverage protects against dementia. At the beginning of the study, the subjects rated how much win... |
11 April 2008
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Marijuana is by far the most common illicit drug in the western world. However, pregnant women should be aware that this drug could affect severely the brain development of the children in their wombs. THC, the main active chemical of marijuana, enters into the fetal blood causing intrauterine growth retardation and ... |
9 April 2008
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Imagine a person having a stroke. How will the stroke affect that person's reading skills? Well, this depends on the mother tongue. For example, Chinese-speakers and English-speakers process reading differently, thus they appear to have reading impairments connected to different brain nuclei. A new research publ... |
9 April 2008
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This is the recipe used by most commercials: put a hot babe near the product, everything from cars to pencils, and the men will buy it. Is it that easy? Partially yes, as revealed by a new Stanford study published in the journal "NeuroReport." Men may react like this in case of positive stimuli, especially if they ar... |
4 April 2008
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Some people really have a problem with telling rapidly which is right and which is left (researches proved that women more than men), but your brain doesn't. Your left brain and right brain are quite different. The right brain hemisphere is linked mostly to emotional functions and music feeling, while the left h... |
4 April 2008
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Alcohol acts like a drug when alcoholism is installed. Alcohol withdrawal symptoms, like anxiety, represent a reality. A new research carried out at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, and published in the "Journal of Neuroscience," has found the reason behind this: the gene e... |
3 April 2008
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Many terrestrial and aquatic species can hear lower and higher frequencies than those detected by humans (infrasound, respectively ultrasounds). Frequency is crucial in defining a sound. Now, an Israeli team sustained by UCLA researchers has showed for the first time, in a research published in the journal "Nature," ... |
2 April 2008
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This is a great mystery that has been finally solved: how do most anesthetics work. And it started with almost the only anesthetic our grandparents could name, the chloroform, which has been used for over 150 years. The discovery was made by accident by Leeds University Dr. Yahya Bahnasi."We take general anesthesia f... |
2 April 2008
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If men and women differ behaviorally, this has an anatomical base. More specifically: the brain of the man differs from that of the woman. The differences are slight, but the impact is great. This explains why men have higher ability to visualize objects in three dimensions or read maps, labyrinths and diagrams, but ... |
1 April 2008
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