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Does your brain need training?
January 21, 2015 3 Comments on Does your brain need training?

Psych Central

In a society that glorifies brain-related companies such as Lumosity, it’s important to note that while their goal is moral, their process is inherently flawed.

As an Integrative Neuroscience major at Binghamton University, I can understand why parents and children alike fall for the tempting ways to enhance your brain’s functioning. After all, it’s no secret that as we begin to age, our memory and other senses begin to fade gradually and sometimes rather abruptly.
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Do you still feel like a scared child in an adult world?
December 16, 2014 Comments Off on Do you still feel like a scared child in an adult world?

Pick The Brain

I sat at the end of the sofa. This is the spot I’d been in all night watching people move around the room, and listening to whoever chose to sit next to me talk. This is how I used to inhibit a party. Motionless and quiet, waiting for just the right moment to hurry home.

This was not just my way of dealing with parties. It reflected the way I dealt with much of my life. Too afraid to show the world who I really was, I’d try my best to stay quiet and still. Don’t say too much. Don’t laugh too loudly. Don’t let them know you are anxious. Don’t let them notice that you are different.
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Do you know how to say, “I love you to a man?”
December 6, 2014 1 Comment on Do you know how to say, “I love you to a man?”

Tatafoears

You’ve heard it before: Men are visual; women are verbal. Men are impulsive; women like to analyze things. Men are from Mars; women are from Venus. So since husbands and wives are opposite in many ways, it makes sense that male and female hearts swell for different reasons. While you probably smile when your mate says, “I love you,” those same three words from you may not do much for him. Here, 11 gestures that show you care and why they’re more meaningful to the guy in your life.
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Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?
December 3, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?

Forbes –

According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus, and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come. The negative effects of sleep deprivation are so great that people who are drunk outperform those lacking sleep.
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Is there an off-switch for pain?
November 29, 2014 Comments Off on Is there an off-switch for pain?

Science Daily

Pain is an enormous problem. As an unmet medical need, pain causes suffering and comes with a multi-billion dollar societal cost. Current treatments are problematic because they cause intolerable side effects, diminish the quality of life and do not sufficiently quell the pain.

The most successful pharmacological approaches for the treatment of chronic pain rely on certain “pathways”: circuits involving opioid, adrenergic, and calcium channels.
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And, this is your brain on… Pain.
November 28, 2014 Comments Off on And, this is your brain on… Pain.

ABC.AU

Gustin and colleagues found that people with chronic pain were more passive and less novelty-seeking than the controls.

“Chronic pain patients are less likely to want to go out and explore the world,” says Gustin.

Imaging found chronic pain patients had greater activity in parts of the brain involved in emotions, cognition and behaviour

In particular, they had more neuronal growth in the prefrontal cortex, which is a part of the brain linked to emotions, cognition and behaviour — including seeking out new experiences.
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Do you need a high fat diet?
October 28, 2014 Comments Off on Do you need a high fat diet?

Men’s Journal

One year later, the high-fat, low-carb group had lost three times as much weight – 12 pounds compared with four – and that weight loss came from body fat, while the low-fat group lost muscle. Even more persuasive were the results of blood tests meant to measure the risk of heart disease and diabetes. The high-fat group, despite eating nearly twice as much saturated fat, still saw greater improvements in LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides.
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On second thought, you really DO need a drink…
October 24, 2014 Comments Off on On second thought, you really DO need a drink…

Science Daily

Researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, University of Kentucky, and the University of Maryland found that for people 60 and older who do not have dementia, light alcohol consumption during late life is associated with higher episodic memory — the ability to recall memories of events.
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Does your brain really need a gym?
October 23, 2014 Comments Off on Does your brain really need a gym?

Futurity

“We object to the claim that brain games offer consumers a scientifically grounded avenue to reduce or reverse cognitive decline when there is no compelling scientific evidence to date that they do. . . . The promise of a magic bullet detracts from the best evidence to date, which is that cognitive health in old age reflects the long-term effects of healthy, engaged lifestyles.”

“When researchers follow people across their lives, they find that those who live cognitively active, socially connected lives and maintain healthy lifestyles are less likely to suffer debilitating illness and early cognitive decline,” as the statement describes it.
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Pull and Pray?
October 16, 2014 Comments Off on Pull and Pray?

Kevin MD

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