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Sugar Makes You Stupid: Study Shows High Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning and Memory. This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory.

Sugar Makes You Stupid: Study Shows High Fructose Diet Sabotages Learning and Memory

[Corrections: The UCLA Newsroom has made the following changes to the original press release. The changes are described as: Paragraph 5 of this release was changed from an earlier version to reflect that the study focused on fructose generally, not specifically on high-fructose corn syrup; that high-fructose corn syrup is not necessarily "six times sweeter" than cane sugar; and that Americans consume approximately 35 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per capita annually, not "more than 40 pounds.

" The researcher's quote in Paragraph 6 has also been changed slightly to avoid the implication that the study focused solely on high-fructose corn syrup. Neuroscience News notes: I've left the original text in brackets [ ] to show the original errors and to allow other science writers to learn from the mistakes of this press release.

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Art. Summer Research Programs. Society for Neuroscience. Social Neuroscience. Editor’s note: Studying only the biological or social aspects of a species can cause researchers to overlook many of the complex elements at work within and among organisms.

Social Neuroscience

The interdisciplinary field of social neuroscience serves to close the gaps left by such singularly focused research. Social neuroscientists boost our knowledge of the biology of animal and human interactions in areas as diverse as drug abuse, pair-bonding, and social isolation. As the field continues to grow, we will better understand the social, biological, and cognitive factors that determine how we relate to others.

Aristotle observed that we are fundamentally a social species.1 Social species create emergent structures beyond the individual, ranging from dyads (or pairs) and families to groups, communities, and cultures.

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