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Method to Boost Gut Neuron Production Devised

According to a new set of scientific studies, the lower portions of the human digestive tract can be artificially stimulated to produce new neurons, a find that may lead to the development of new, groundbreaking treatments for a broad range of intestinal disorders. Details of the new study, conducted on unsuspecting ...

5 August 2009
05:42 GMT

Experts Analyze the 'Gambling' Behavior of Rats

In laboratory conditions, researchers test various aspects of lab rats' behavior, in a bid to find parallels between their way of acting in certain situations and our own. Once this happens, they find an animal model for a certain human trait, various aspects of which they can analyze. In a recent investigation,...

18 June 2009
13:01 GMT

Experts Fail to Find 'Depression Gene'

The whole fad was started by a 2003 scientific study, which held that there must be a gene variant that made some people sail through life all depressed and sad, while others did so without any kind of second thoughts, and always enjoying the moment. The theory seemed solid, because it would have explained some diffe...

17 June 2009
01:58 GMT

Nerve Chemical Turns Locusts into Pests

Researchers believe they might have discovered the element that triggers the formation of massive locust swarms that pose an incredible threat to crops and plantations worldwide. Upon analyzing what makes single grasshoppers come together to form an enormous group, a team of scientists identified serotonin, the hormo...

30 January 2009
07:58 GMT

Serotonin Linked to Cot Death

Sudden infant death syndrome, also known as cot death in certain areas of the world, is a condition in which infant children up to several months of age die without warning, although not suffering of any serious known diseases. Cot death is largely mysterious even today, since there is no clear indication to what is ...

4 July 2008
05:59 GMT

Eating Helps Us Make Good Decisions

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
07:07 GMT

Breakthrough Discovery of Brain Differences Between Men and Women. It also explains PMS!

Men and women are clearly different species. And this is more than just physical: it goes in all inner organs, including the brain, explaining behavioral differences but also the opposite desires, sensitivities, preferences...The brain is masculinized from the womb by testosterone (its lack determines the feminizatio...

16 February 2008
06:07 GMT

Rage: the Same Mechanism in Humans and Felines

Just a month after the attack of an escaped tigress at San Francisco ended with the death of three teenagers, a new research published in the journal "Brain, Behavior, and Immunity," shows that cats become enraged exactly the same way as humans.Enraged cats react by hissing, arching their back, retracting their ear...

4 February 2008
06:04 GMT

What Stops Milk Production?

Healthy and cheap milk could come as the result of a new discovery: both in women and cows, the secretion of the milk is stopped by serotonin ("the feeling good" hormone). "Knowing the chemical responsible for inhibiting milk production could help us to improve milk yields in other mammals," said lead researcher Dr. ...

9 October 2007
05:53 GMT

No More Premature Ejaculation!

Experiencing orgasm and ejaculating is beyond a man's control, especially after a long abstinence. But when the woman does not even understand it all the time, there is a problem. Premature ejaculation (PE) represents a "persistent or recurrent onset of ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation before, on, or ...

1 September 2007
05:26 GMT

The Anti-Depression Bread

Bread is said to break the waistline. But it seems that at the same time it can make you happy. A new research at the University of York and Hull York Medical School has established the connection between depression and low levels of folate (also called vitamin B9), which comes from vegetables (leaf vegetables, beans...

28 June 2007
04:44 GMT

What Should a Woman Eat to Reach Orgasm?

45 % of the young women have been found by a recent research to experience sexual dysfunction. Recently, Marrena Lindberg, 38, from Boston, comes with a sexual diet that could give women back their sexual health and pleasure. The Orgasmic Diet has four main hints, involved in enabling healthy sexual function in women...

31 May 2007
15:41 GMT

Where Does the Violence Lie?

Human brain chemistry and genetics are working hard to decode the mental substratum of the violence, from hooligan's behavior to extreme cases, like the recent most infamous school mass shooter in Virginia. "There is no doubt in my mind that if we could have examined his brain (the killer at Virginia Tech) we w...

23 April 2007
04:49 GMT

Eat Mud to Get Happy

Happiness could be found in the mud ...A mixed research team from the University of Bristol and University College London has discovered that bacteria found in the soil turned on a group of neurons that synthesize the brain chemical serotonin, named also "the happiness hormone". When the researchers treated lab mice ...

10 April 2007
08:59 GMT

Why Diets Bum People Out

To be in a good mood, you surely need a good look...That's why you're victimized by the toughest diets.But a new research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology points carbohydrates poor diets (like Atkins) are more likely to give you a bad mood, as carbohydrates stimulate synthesis of the brain chemi...

10 March 2007
06:01 GMT


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