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Investigators in the United States have determined how repeated exposure to cocaine leads to an impaired sense of reward in the human brain. This mechanism culminates in reducing the feelings of reward or pleasure from all other activities except cocaine use.
What scientists found was that the drug influences a spe... |
23 April 2012
08:21 GMT |
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If you want to check into your favorite TV shows and get rewards from Best Buy, Burger King, Fandango, Old Navy and others, download the new Viggle app from iTunes now - it’s free!
Viggle, a Function(x) company, today announced its first free app for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch. Using a proprietary show matching ... |
26 January 2012
16:11 GMT |
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University of Pittsburgh investigators determined in a new lab study conducted on unsuspecting rats that the adolescent brain is more susceptible to start suffering from conditions such as depression and addiction because it is undergoing a continuous process of development.
The work implies that people's chan... |
21 January 2012
06:58 GMT |
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Video game publisher Nintendo of America has given a new face to the Club Nintendo rewards website, now allowing gamers to trade in the Coins that they currently have in order to get a number of downloadable games for the Nintendo Wii home console or the DS and new 3DS handhelds.At the moment players can pay 100 Coin... |
15 December 2011
05:29 GMT |
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Video game publisher Konami Digital Entertainment has announced the launch of a myPES application designed specifically for Facebook, which allows players of the football simulation to create leagues on the fly and to show off results in offline and online one-on-one matches.Those who play Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 o... |
17 October 2011
09:49 GMT |
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For many years, behavioral scientists and economists have been trying to figure out precisely why human tend to be generous and helpful to each other, even when there is no benefit to do so. A new study puts this issue in a new perspective.Humans are not the only species known to engage in such acts. Monkeys do it to... |
26 July 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The human brain may have evolved to the point where making a choice – regardless of what that choice is – is a reward unto itself. Experts managed to tease out this trait in a new study conducted on volunteers in the lab. Making choices is a behavior directly related to the perception of control each and ... |
19 July 2011
10:04 GMT |
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Video game publisher and hardware developer Microsoft has announced that it has launched a new Xbox Live Rewards-based trivia game that allows interested gamers to get free Microsoft Points by answering some pretty simple questions about games.
The trivia game will continue until May 15 and all one has to do to pl... |
4 April 2011
10:25 GMT |
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Sony has apparently decided to shelf the PlayStation Rewards program that was supposed to launch this year, saying that public testing suggests that it is not yet ready for mass participation. An official e-mail message from Sony reads: “Based on what we learned, we have decided the program is not ready to rol... |
31 March 2011
10:29 GMT |
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Recent scientific investigations into the way teens behave revealed that they are much more likely to engage in negative, damaging behavior when they are in a group, than by themselves.Unfortunately, this correlation holds true for such things as committing murder, or driving a car drunk and getting into an accident.... |
31 January 2011
09:22 GMT |
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A team of researchers recently used a form of medical imaging to gain new insight into how people and animals alike learn from their competitors, as well as from failure and successes.The investigators used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to look at the brain activity patterns of test subjects, as the individuals we... |
13 October 2010
10:40 GMT |
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I recently developed a new hobby. It was obviously something that I didn’t plan for, and how could I have? It's not like you suddenly wake up one morning and decide you want to pick up knitting. Well, I suppose maybe you could, but then again maybe it's just pushing your limits, in the sense that, if ... |
15 May 2010
06:56 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that small children are perfectly capable of interpreting and figuring out whether those around them have good intentions or not. The finding applies to toddlers that are as young as 21 months, the team behind the new investigation shows. The researchers were based... |
8 April 2010
10:15 GMT |
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Very many people tend not to consider long-term benefits or consequences of their actions too seriously. When faced with the classic dilemma, of eating either chocolate or an apple, most prefer to eat the sweet instead, rather than the healthier fruit. Psychologists say that this is primarily owed to the fact that th... |
2 April 2010
03:03 GMT |
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German investigators from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in Leipzig, argue that metacognition should no longer be regarded as a uniquely-human trait. They say that the ability may actually exist in other animals as well, and reveal that new experiments confirmed its existence in great apes, i... |
24 March 2010
11:57 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, it would appear that an irregularity in the way the human brain processes dopamine is one of the main factors that trigger the emergence of psychopathy. Researchers from the Vanderbilt University made the discovery, and they argue that what this basically means is that the... |
15 March 2010
03:22 GMT |
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The human brain is designed in such a way that, after we eat as much as we need, it sends commands that let us know we're full. In some cases, however, this mechanism malfunctions, and people continue to eat various foods even after they no longer need them. Now, investigators at the University of Texas Southwes... |
28 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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Microsoft seems to be considering a rewards program for a segment of the Xbox Live subscribers, probably later to be extended to the whole service. An e-mail has been sent by the creator of the Xbox 360 to a select few gamers inviting them to join what is described as an “exclusive pilot rewards program.”... |
21 October 2009
04:10 GMT |
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Infinity Ward has confirmed, via the official Twitter feed of the company, that when Modern Warfare 2 is released to the public on November 10, the Xbox 360 version of the game, the one expected to have the biggest sales, will be bringing items that can be employed on the Avatars of the users and even Rewards offered... |
13 October 2009
04:51 GMT |
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The Journal of the American Medical Association has recently published a study regarding the best incentives that can convince the obese to keep on with their weight-loss programs. Experts from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, who carried out the research, concluded that the ones fighting the war agains... |
10 December 2008
12:15 GMT |
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Tales of Eternia is a Japanese PlayStation action role-playing video game released by Namco in 2000 and later ported to PlayStation Portable in 2005. Eternia is a 2D anime-style RPG with an original real-time battle system taken from its predecessors, Tales of Phantasia and Tales of Destiny. It is the third main gam... |
23 July 2007
06:12 GMT |
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