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Marian Salzman: The Brains That Bind Us

2012-05-23T16:45:40Z

Although two of the greatest attributes of our country might be our competitive spirit and our defense of our values and freedoms, one can't help but wonder at what price. Brains are the tie that binds us, but are we really coming undone? Think about it.

Read more: Veterans PTSD, Memorial Day, Heroes, Veterans Administration, Football, Brain Health, Suicide, Brain Tumor, Home Base Program, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Lori-Ann Lytle, Bob Woodruff Foundation, Veterans, Massachusetts General Hospital, Rob Lytle, Soldiers, NFL Concussions, Military, Brain Injuries, Panama, Desert Storm, Junior Seau, Ptsd, Traumatic Brain Injuries, Impact News

Common Memory Quirk Tied To Mental Illness

2012-05-23T12:15:02Z

Lia Kvavilashvili sat in her office at the University of Hertfordshire, mentally reviewing a study she had recently published. She knew that there was...

Read more: Subconscious, Mental Illness, Video, Consciousness, Brain, Schizophrenia, Proust, Memory, Psychology, Mind Pops, Mind, Hallucinations, Science News

Simple 'Mirror' Trick Eases Arthritis Pain, Study Shows

2012-05-23T12:22:22Z

Amputees who experience phantom limb pain can sometimes get relief from an optical illusion. This trick involves looking in a mirror at the reflection...

Read more: Pain, Video, Cognitive Science, Brain, Optical Illusions, Ramachandran, V.s. Ramachandran, Weird, Phantom Hand Syndrome, Arthritis, Science News

Neuroscience Meets Ancient Japanese Scrolls

2012-05-23T07:44:00Z

Greg Dunn is a neuroscience PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania and an artist passionate about Japanese minimalist scrolls. While these inte...

Read more: Video, Jackson Pollock, Neuroscience, Art Meets Science, Neurons, Monk, Greg Dunn, Edo Scrolls, Meditation, Japanese Art, Japanese Scrolls, Slideexpand, Minimalism, Arts News

Serina Deen, M.D., MPH: Tapping Away Trauma: 'Emotional Freedom' Techniques

2012-05-23T06:30:00Z

EFT involves techniques that combines exposure, cognitive restructuring, waking hypnosis, and physical relaxation while tapping on a sequence of pressure points and repeating key phrases out loud.

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Riley Rearden: New Science Behind Kicking Those Stubborn Food Cravings

2012-05-21T17:27:08Z

Recent research has shown that exercise actually changes the way our brain responds to the very idea of food.

Read more: Fitness, Healthy Living Health News, Food Cravings, Appetite Suppressant, Fitness and Exercise, Brain Science, Exercise, New Research, Healthy Living News

Anne Wojcicki: Preventing Degenerative Brain Disease in Our Children

2012-05-21T13:09:43Z

If the experts in traumatic brain injury think there's value in using genotyping to gauge the risks of high-impact sports for their own children, as noted by the authors in a recent research paper, it must be of value to others, too.

Read more: Traumatic Brain Injury, Degenerative Brain Disease, Tbi, Junior Seau, Alzheimer's Disease, Boxing, Brain Disease, Genotyping, Nfl, Apoe, Mental Health, Genetic Testing, Healthy Living Health News, Brain Science, Head Injury, Tbi Brain Injury, Brain Injury, Healthy Living News

Lisa Kaas Boyle: Robin Gibb and the Soundtrack to My Life

2012-05-21T10:04:27Z

I feel an electric charge, like I am John Travolta walking down that hall, not a scared 13-year-old girl. I make it to my locker with a little smile on my face, and start twirling the combination to the lock. "I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm Stayin' Alive."

Read more: Petr Janata, Brain, Robin Gibb, Memory, Psychology, Cancer, Music, Bee Gees, UC David, The Bee Gees, Robin Gibb Cancer, Robin Gibb Dead, Entertainment News

Esther Wojcicki: TEDxStanford Opens Its Doors Today With Free Live Streaming

2012-05-19T09:26:59Z

In just two short years, Krista Donaldson and her team at D-Rev have changed the lives of over 3,500 people in India. Donaldson is one of 21 outstanding speakers at TEDxStanford that you can watch live on LiveStreaming today.

Read more: Tedx, Amputees, Brain Damage, Stanford University, Krista Donaldson, Infant Jaundice, Jaundice, Tedxstanford, Jaipurknee, San Francisco Impact, La Impact, Smarter Ideas, Impact News

New Study Demystifies Neuroscience's Most Celebrated Case

2012-05-18T01:28:00Z

It's easy enough to understand the ghastly accident that befell poor Phineas Gage in Cavendish, Vermont on Sept. 13, 1848: the 25-year-old railroad wo...

Read more: Phineas P. Gage, Brain Map, Video, Neuroscience, Ct, Phineas Gage, Iron Rod, Brain Injury, Mri, Brain Scan, Science News

Tom Huston: Will the Future Be As Bright As You Think?

2012-05-17T19:02:48Z

Are you a pessimist or an optimist? When you've eaten all the whipped cream and upper midsection of your Venti Soy Mocha Frappuccino, is that cup half empty or is it half full of stuff you probably shouldn't be drinking at the start of your day?

Read more: Pessimism, Science, Neuroscience, TED Talks, Statistics, Optimism, Optimism Bias, Tali Sharot, Video, Becoming-Fearless, Science News

What Sleight Of Hand Reveals About Brain Function

2012-05-15T15:49:38Z

“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.
I knew exac...

Read more: Magic, Neuroscience, Video, Cognitive Science, Pseudoscience, Neuromagic, James Randi, Psychology, Magician, Skepticism, Perception, Science News

Brandon G. Withrow: Science And The Ups And Downs Of Christ's Ascension

2012-05-17T08:01:55Z

What intrigues me about the ascension of Christ is not only what it tells me about the ancient world and its "scientific" knowledge of the universe, but also what it tells me about many Christians today.

Read more: Neuroscience, Religion and Science, Young Earth Creationism, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Death of Jesus, Ascension of Christ, Easter, Religion News

A Single Season Of Hits May Harm College Athletes' Ability To Learn

2012-05-16T17:01:35Z

Just a single season of contact sports can take a toll on college athletes' ability to learn, according to a new study.

Overall, one season's wort...

Read more: Brain Injury, Junior Seau, Concussions, Concussion, Brain Injuries, Football Concussions, Healthy Living News

Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.: The Neuroscience of Bad Habits: Dr. Nora Volkow

2012-05-14T23:09:02Z

Just because our brains have been altered by addiction, doesn't mean we're destined to fall into the same habits. With the right skills, community and support we can learn how to break out of routine and into a life worth living.

Read more: Addiction, Elisha Goldstein, Drugs, The Now Effect, Obesity, Mindfulness, Nora Volkow, 60 Minutes, Alcoholism, Habits, Mental Health, Brain Science, Addiction and Recovery, The Mind, Form Habits, Bad Habits, Video, Healthy Living News

Maria A. Oquendo, M.D.: Predicting Treatment Response in Major Depression: The Use of Biosignatures

2012-05-14T17:58:18Z

A new national study on "biosignatures" for depression treatment is groundbreaking in its approach and sophistication; it could usher in a new frontier of brain science.

Read more: Major Depression, Depression, Biomarkers, Depression Treatment, Mental Health, Brain Science, Mental Health Research, New Research, Healthy Living Health News, Psychopharmacology, Biosignature, Healthy Living News

The European Magazine: Talking To God: It's A Brain Puzzle

2012-05-14T14:26:44Z

What happens when believers attempt to communicate with their God? If the brain did not evolve a system for conversing with highly abstract invisible entities, what brain systems activate when it does?

Read more: God, Neurology, Religion and Science, Neuroscience, Talking to God, Prayer, Belief, Prayer and Meditation, Brain Science, Religion News

Jonathan D. Moreno: Robot Soldiers Will Be a Reality -- And a Threat

2012-05-14T09:51:13Z

Much controversy has surrounded the use of remote-controlled drone aircraft in the war on terror. But another, still more awe-inducing possibility has emerged: taking human beings out of the decision loop altogether.

Read more: Robot War, Drone Pilots, Computers, War, Brain Science, Brain Machine Interface, Unmanned Drones, Drones, Technology News

Is Cannibalism Good For You?

2012-05-08T19:06:21Z

Is eating people dangerous? Nutritional? Healthy? What actually happens, physiologically, when human flesh is consumed?

Read more: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy, Video, Neuroscience, Flesh Eating, Kuru, Brain, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Talk Nerdy to Me, Prions, Cannibalism, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Cara Santa Maria, Mad Cow Disease, Science News

WATCH: What's Your Dog Thinking? MRI Study Aims To Find Out

2012-05-07T10:02:16Z

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor
Published: 05/07/2012 02:32 PM EDT on LiveScience

Fido's expressive face, including those longing...

Read more: Dog Behavior, Greg Berns, Dog Research, Video, Neuroscience, Pet Behavior, Dog Brain, Science, Dog Brain Scan, Science News, Dog, Emory University, Dog's Brain, Science News

Davis Schneiderman: When Mother's Day Can't Be Contained in a Card

2012-05-07T16:30:41Z

Each time I see Kelly with our daughters, tickling them, singing with them and giving them even more of what she knows they'll need to become strong women, I am proud of her and our family.

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WATCH: Liberal, Conservative: Are You Born That Way?

2012-05-04T16:05:48Z

Do we have traits that can be used to reliably predict whether someone is liberal or conservative in nature?

Read more: Politics, Democrat, Video, Neuroscience, Progressive, Personality, Brain, Talk Nerdy to Me, Republican, Chris Mooney, Science, Conservative, Liberal, Cara Santa Maria, Science News, The Republican Brain, Ideology, Science News

John Stanley: Buddha Nature And The Divided Brain

2012-05-07T07:26:03Z

Although covered by layers of psychological delusion and conditioning, this original self has for centuries been discovered and polished through meditation, mindful awareness and related disciplines.

Read more: Psychology, Neuroscience, Brain, Buddhism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Prayer and Meditation, Buddhist Meditation, Religion News

Joe Loizzo, M.D., Ph.D.: Faces, Voices and the Brain-Heart Brake: The Divine Science of Tibet

2012-05-06T09:00:36Z

Breakthroughs in the neuroscience of empathy, emotions and our conscious control of the breath have radically changed our view of our nature, helping explain the stubborn power of spiritual imagery, prayers and ritual.

Read more: Mirror Neurons, Facial Expressions, Tantric Buddhism, Prayer, Jungian Archetypes, Religion and Science, Buddhism, Neuroscience, God, Tibetan Buddhism, Meditation, Religion News

SLIDESHOW: 'Benjamin Button' Brothers Said To Have Bizarre 'Age-Reversing' Disease

2012-05-02T10:55:23Z

They're being called the "Benjamin Button" brothers--a reference to "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," the 2008 movie in which Brad Pitt plays a m...

Read more: Leukodystrophy, Mld, Neuroscience, Arylsulfatase a Deficiency, Benjamin Button, Michael Clark, Science, Benjamin Button Disease, Science News, Matthew Clark, Rare Disorder, Science News