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As the pretext of fighting against terrorism is giving government officials more and more leeway for abuse, some are now even considering introducing mind-scanners in airport terminals as part of the security effort. Those behind the new machines say that they will help detect which individuals have plans to carry ex... |
29 January 2010
00:56 GMT |
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Having a map is essential for any new journey. But mapping the mind? What could this possibly be? The ones interested in taking full control over their thoughts and actions have surely found out about this revolutionary concept by now, because it is truly a concept that stands in the center of the latest brain struct... |
29 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Acquiring and hoarding various types of objects is a behavior in which many humans are engaged. In fact, almost every person on the planet collects something, from pins and stamps, to yachts and rare artifacts. But there are those who collect and hoard them compulsively. These individuals, whom mental-health experts ... |
25 September 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Spain began in 2008 the national MIND project, an initiative aimed at approaching Alzheimer's disease from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Valued at 27 million euros, it comprises some twelve biomedicine companies and their corresponding, public, research organizations, and is scheduled to last for about four ... |
17 September 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Ever since ancient times, people have been trying to express their thoughts and feelings in various ways, and one of the most important is writing. But time passed by, technology evolved and soon we found out that computers could help us express our thoughts more than we even imagine. And this how came the idea to cr... |
16 September 2009
12:31 GMT |
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A series of five games that are proven to improve mental abilities was distributed free of charge by Allstate insurance company to 100,000 old age drivers from Pennsylvania. Of course, they are all driving-based games, not “Diablo,” “World of Warcraft” or “GTA.” The game suite... |
14 October 2008
06:23 GMT |
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When people lack control and outcome predicting possibilities, they tend to think there's something wrong with reality, that there are incomprehensible forces at work, and their frustration and previous experiences twine into unnatural explanations and behaviors.There's no better explanation to how our min... |
3 October 2008
07:14 GMT |
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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
04:37 GMT |
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We are all in the search of happiness, but the failure of finding it can cause us all kinds of frustrations and psychological issues. First of all, it is tricky to even define happiness: is it having what you want or wanting what you have? A new research published in the Psychological Science tested this. The results... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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It's in vogue to go to the shrink. You see it everywhere: everybody does it and many movies have a psychoanalytical plot. But what it's all about?The desire is the impulse for initiating our actions. If satisfied, it causes welfare. But if the desires are not accomplished, they can cause trauma. Psychoanaly... |
17 April 2008
11:12 GMT |
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Anorexia is not all about food. More than an eating disease, this is a mind problem with deep impact upon the people around. A new study, whose results were published in the new book 'Inside Anorexia: The experiences of girls and their families', and carried out by a team at the University of Western Sydney... |
9 April 2008
14:11 GMT |
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Emotiv is a neuro-engineering company that claims to have created a brain computer interface that reads electrical impulses in the brain and translates them into commands which a video game can accept. The device was demonstrated at the Game Developers Conference and, although interesting, the technology seems to s... |
20 February 2008
08:13 GMT |
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If you swing the channel for a music one and look for just half an hour, it is impossible to think that not all the women on this planet have huge implant-filled boobs, big rounded buts and a bimbo face. And if you think that what music videos present is just for the sell, without any harmful effect to the mind of th... |
16 February 2008
06:46 GMT |
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Is your boss a butt-head? In this case, don't try to change this, at least as long as he/she feels powerful, as revealed by a new research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. "Powerful people have confidence in what they are thinking. Whether their thoughts are positive or negative tow... |
15 February 2008
06:11 GMT |
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The information is transmitted through the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste) to the brain. These data are used by the brain with its 5 basic aptitudes: attention, memory, learning, recall and speech, employing its 10 billion neurons and its 40 billion connections per cubic centimeter. 1.Attention sele... |
28 December 2007
14:06 GMT |
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A piece of crap, once it's yours it's yours and people can often behave like freaks when it comes to their personal little belongings. Now, the same odd behavior has been found in chimps, explaining more the way the human mind works. An old experiment made on college students showed that once offered either... |
9 October 2007
06:29 GMT |
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Sex seems to be more than a hormonal discharge and some short moments of pure pleasure. Scientists show that sex is extremely beneficial for our health, while the lack of an active sex life might have negative effects. But too much sex, can also be harmful: more than thrice a week it can weaken the immune system, mak... |
4 October 2007
15:16 GMT |
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Kind, aggressive, horny or erratic. It's all on your hormones. But if you think that being smart is just an issue regarding neurons, you're wrong: it is also about hormones. Recent researches show the hormone oxytocin boosts at least one cognitive skill: penetrating inside the mind of the others. Because hu... |
31 August 2007
06:13 GMT |
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Animals, too, experience a profound feeling of sadness when their play/hunt/sex partner dies. Those studying the behavior of wild and domestic animals come with an increasing number of cases proving that animals are capable of pure sorrow when they lose someone close to them. Somehow, this behavior is linked to self-... |
22 August 2007
13:36 GMT |
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A new week-end is about to start so let me bring to your attention a new game. This time it is not a puzzle, a quest, a shooter or stuff like that, but it's a mind game. Basically, the mind games that go around this business are never so entertaining or funny. But most of them have a really bad graphic.This game... |
20 July 2007
08:42 GMT |
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Mobile media company Player X and Sky have teamed up to create Carol Vorderman's Mind Aerobics, a mobile game for launch with UK operators. Mind Aerobics comprises a wide range of mental exercises for players to take in 10 minutes, measuring and improving their Brain Fitness Index, or BFI. Each player's uni... |
23 March 2007
11:19 GMT |
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Mind-wandering is too common to ignore.Admit that many times, instead of listening to boring classes you fantasized with a hot girl mate next to you or you imagined a crazy party... We all experience this, even if we struggle to avoid it. A new array of researches tries to shed light on this less investigated domain ... |
20 March 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Tired of the megalomaniac nearby that claims he/she knows everything (even if all he pulls put of his mouth just bulls**t), he is the most intelligent (even if he has a child's brain), he looks gorgeous (even if he is a fat potato that looks twenty years older than he really is)?Did you feel relieved when scient... |
9 March 2007
03:23 GMT |
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