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blogs.scientificamerican.com - May 15, 3:57 AM

How Neuroscientists and Magicians Are Conjuring Brain Insights

I see you have a watch with a buckle. Standing at my side, Apollo Robbins held my wrist lightly as he turned my hand over and back.

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www.usatoday.com - May 15, 3:52 AM

Sleepwalking More Common Than Many People Think

People with sleep apnea, depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder are at higher risk of somnabulism, researchers say.
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www.cbsnews.com - May 15, 3:49 AM

Study: Smoking pot may ease pain, muscle spasms in people with multiple sclerosis

Patients smoking marijuana scored lower on multiple sclerosis spasticity tests - but also performed worse on cognitive tests Read more by Ryan Jaslow on CBS News' HealthPop.
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www.sciencedaily.com - May 15, 3:44 AM

First gene therapy successful against aging-associated decline: Mouse lifespan extended up to 24% with a single treatment

A new study consisting of inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which -- metaphorically -- slows down the biological clock -- was successful.
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www.sciencedaily.com - May 15, 3:40 AM

Brain circuitry is different for women with anorexia and obesity

Why does one person become anorexic and another obese? Researchers have now shown that reward circuits in the brain are sensitized in anorexic women and desensitized in obese women.
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www.medicalnewstoday.com - May 14, 11:58 AM

New Study Finds Military Marriages Are Not More Vulnerable To Divorce

Despite the fact that military service means working long hours with unpredictable schedules, frequent relocations, and separations from loved ones due to deployment, a new study published in the...
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bigthink.com - May 13, 8:56 AM

Braingasm: How Porn "Shuts Down" Women's Brains

Most of the research that was conducted in terms of human sexual responses was conducted in men and findings were extrapolated to women.

 


Via Sakis Koukouvis
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alert.psychiatricnews.org - May 13, 7:26 AM

Why Is Anorexia So Persistent?

Compulsive dieting associated with anorexia nervosa may be a learned habit that becomes ingrained over time and extraordinarily difficult to break

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www.medicalnewstoday.com - May 13, 7:23 AM

Study Finds Income Inequality Leads To More US Deaths

A new study provides the best evidence to date that higher levels of income inequality in the United States actually lead to more deaths in the country over a period of years

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www.psychologytoday.com - May 13, 7:18 AM

It's Not Fair! But What Is Fairness?

Three different ideas of fairness: sameness, deservedness, and need

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www.medicalnewstoday.com - May 13, 7:15 AM

Neurotranmitters Identified That Lead To Forgetting

While we often think of memory as a way of preserving the essential idea of who we are, little thought is given to the importance of forgetting to our wellbeing, whether what we forget belongs in the "horrible memories department" or just reflects the minutia of day-to-day living.

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Be careful when comforting struggling students

Previous research tells us that students who see intelligence and ability as fixed will tend to give up when confronted by a difficult problem, whereas those who see intelligence as growable will persevere. But how do teachers' beliefs about ability affect the way they perceive and respond to their students' performance?

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www.psychologytoday.com - May 11, 2:48 AM

Fraud, Disclosure, and Degrees of Freedom in Science

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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www.psychologytoday.com - May 15, 3:54 AM

More On: A Reasonable Fear or a Phobia

A response to a comment about fears and phobias

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my.psychologytoday.com - May 15, 3:51 AM

An Under-examined Benefit of Multiculturalism | Psychology Today

When you love your country you feel that you have never done enough for it, even if you have done as much as you can

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www.psychologytoday.com - May 15, 3:47 AM

Boredom: the devil and divine discontent

First encountered in childhood and expressed in the characteristic “I have nothing to do” whine, boredom grows up to be associated with depression and with emotional instability and neuroticism more broadly

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www.whatispsychology.biz - May 15, 3:43 AM

The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick [video]

In this video, celebrated psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman shares his amazing color changing card trick. Watch carefully.
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www.medicalnewstoday.com - May 14, 12:00 PM

The Brain\'s Neuronal Circuit Excitability May Be Altered By Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Lead To Brain Network Dysfunction

Even mild head injuries can cause significant abnormalities in brain function that last for several days, which may explain the neurological symptoms experienced by some individuals who have exper...
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mindblog.dericbownds.net - May 14, 11:55 AM

Linking social environment to gene expression.

Tung et al. report work on rhesus macaque monkeys - consonant with more limited human studies - showing that dominance rank causes a plastic imprint on regulation of immune system genes. They find that social status can be predicted by gene expression data with 80% accuracy

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my.psychologytoday.com - May 13, 7:28 AM

Psychotherapy’s Fifth Wave

Psychotherapy is on the cusp of a new revolution, one that will result in the effective combination of the major perspectives into a coherent whole, anchored to the science of psychology

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www.sciencedaily.com - May 13, 7:25 AM

Chimpanzee cultures differ between neighbors: Neighboring chimpanzee groups use different hammers to crack nuts

Culture has long been proposed to be a distinguishing feature of the human species.
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mindhacks.com - May 13, 7:20 AM

A look inside digital humanity

BBC Radio 4 has just started an excellent series called The Digital Human that looks at how we use technology and how it affects our relationship to the social world

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www.psychologytoday.com - May 13, 7:16 AM

Sorting out Synesthesia

How much of the synesthetic experience is shared?

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mindblog.dericbownds.net - May 13, 7:13 AM

Egalitarian behavior and the insula

Individuals are willing to sacrifice their own resources to promote equality in groups. These costly choices promote equality and are associated with behavior that supports cooperation in humans, but little is known about the brain processes involved.

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www.medicalnewstoday.com - May 13, 7:09 AM

Study Identifies Five Factors That Promote A Positive Body Image In Women

Women with high family support and limited pressure to achieve the 'thin and beautiful' ideal have a more positive body image.
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