Drugs. Cancer. SILVER KILLS VIRUSES, STUDY FINDS. TESTOSTERONE NATION - The Third-World Squat. Strength in naughty or nice. New research from Harvard University suggests that moral actions may increase people’s capacity for willpower and physical endurance.
Study participants who did good deeds — or even just imagined themselves helping others — were better able to perform a subsequent task of physical endurance. The research, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, shows a similar or even greater boost in physical strength following mean-spirited deeds. Researcher Kurt Gray, a doctoral student in psychology at Harvard, explains these effects as a self-fulfilling prophecy in morality. Pixel Poppers: Awesome By Proxy: Addicted to Fake Achievement. When I was old enough to care whether I won or lost at games, but still too young to be any good at them, I decided RPGs were better than action games.
Image:Doktorschnabel 430px.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Transplant patient has NEW kidney removed after NHS computer blunder. By JO MACFARLANE Last updated at 10:36 20 January 2008 A kidney transplant patient was forced to have the new organ removed after just a few hours when it was discovered that the patient's blood type had been incorrectly recorded on a computer database.
The mistake, believed to be the first of its kind in Britain, would have led to the organ being rejected with possibly fatal consequences. The incident, which was only revealed in response to a Freedom of Information request, comes just days after Gordon Brown called for a system in which individuals are presumed to consent to the use of their organs for transplant unless they specifically stipulate otherwise. The error will intensify demands for fresh safeguards. And it will inevitably raise further fears about a planned NHS supercomputer, or centralised 'spine', on which all medical records will be held. This happened despite the fact that the correct blood type, O positive, was entered clearly on the hospital's paper records. Invention: Blood-pressure-sensing underpants - tech - 19 May 2008 - New Scientist Tech.
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To continue using our website and consent to the use of cookies, click away from this box or click 'Close' Study reveals link among childhood allergies, asthma symptoms, and early life exposure to cats. Public release date: 20-May-2008 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Stephanie Bergersb2247@columbia.edu 212-305-4372Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health May 20, 2008 -- A study released by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, shows that cat ownership may have a protective effect against the development of asthma symptoms in young children at age five.
The study, published by the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that children with cats in the home were more likely to have made allergy-related antibodies to cats. Cause And Affect: Emotions Can Be Unconsciously And Subliminally Evoked, Study Shows. Most people agree that emotions can be caused by a specific event and that the person experiencing it is aware of the cause, such as a child’s excitement at the sound of an ice cream truck.
To Bet Or Not To Bet: How The Brain Learns To Estimate Risk. Researchers from EPFL and Caltech have made an important neurobiological discovery of how humans learn to predict risk.
The research, appearing in the March 12 issue of the Journal of Neuroscience, will shed light on why certain kinds of risk, notably financial risk, are often underestimated, and whether abnormal behavior such as addiction (e.g. to gambling or drugs) could be caused by an erroneous evaluation of risk. Gene protects adults abused as children from depression. Public release date: 4-Feb-2008 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Kathi Bakerkobaker@emory.edu 404-727-9371Emory University Some forms of a gene that controls the body's response to stress hormones appear to protect adults who were abused in childhood from depression, psychiatrists have found.
People who had been abused as children and who carried the most protective forms of the gene, called corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor one (CRHR1), had markedly lower measures of depression, compared with people with less protective forms, the researchers found in a recent study. The findings could guide doctors in finding new ways to treat depression in people who were abused as children, says senior author Kerry Ressler, MD, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University School of Medicine. Neighborhood ethnic density associated with risk of psychosis among immigrants in the Netherlands. Public release date: 4-Feb-2008 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Stephanie Bergersb2247@columbia.edu 212-305-4372Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health February 4, 2008 -- In a study on neighborhood ethnic density, collaborating researchers from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and The Hague, Netherlands, report that immigrants who live in neighborhoods where their own ethnic group comprise a small proportion of the population are at increased risk for certain psychotic disorders.
The findings confirm the potential importance of environment and social experiences that may contribute to these disorders, including schizophrenia, one of the leading causes of long-term disability. The study underscores the necessity for public health clinicians to pay attention to the mental health needs of immigrants, and highlights the importance of cultural sensitivity when treating immigrant and minority patients. His parasite theory stirs a revolution. Brain chip reads man's thoughts. A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to benefit from a brain chip that reads his mind. Matthew Nagle, 25, was left paralysed from the neck down and confined to a wheelchair after a knife attack in 2001. The pioneering surgery at New England Sinai Hospital, Massachusetts, last summer means he can now control everyday objects by thought alone.
The brain chip reads his mind and sends the thoughts to a computer to decipher. Mind over matter. Diabeetis mix. Wilford Brimley diabetes remix. Who's Having Sex in America? Dan Gilbert on TED Talks. Press Release - 04 December 2006 University of Bath. Press Release - 04 December 2006 The message in advertising is irrelevant, new research shows Creativity and emotion are what makes advertising successful, not the message it is trying to get over, new research shows.
Dr Robert Heath, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, found that advertisements with high levels of emotional content enhanced how people felt about brands, even when there was no real message. However, advertisements which were low on emotional content had no effect on how favourable the public were towards brands, even if the ad was high in news and information. Dr Heath, working with the research company OTX, tested 23 TV ads that were on air at the time in the USA and 20 that were on air in the UK, for their levels of emotional and rational content. Deadly 'iku iku byo' reaches a climax - MSN-Mainichi Daily News. The Handler. Evidence that subliminal is not so 'sub' Finger length predicts physically aggressive personalities, study shows.
Public release date: 2-Mar-2005 [ Print | E-mail Share ] [ Close Window ] Contact: Ryan Smithryan.smith@ualberta.ca 780-492-0436University of Alberta Dr.
Peter Hurd initially thought the idea was "a pile of hooey", but he changed his mind when he saw the data. Hurd and his graduate student Allison Bailey have shown that a man's index finger length relative to ring finger length can predict how inclined that man is to be physically aggressive. A psychologist at the University of Alberta, Hurd said that it has been known for more than a century that the length of the index finger relative to the ring finger differs between men and women. Liver cells grown from cord blood.
Report: Women Who Killed Kids Form Bond. 8 - 1 > 8. Creepy "Shadow Person" Effect Conjured by Brain Shocks. September 20, 2006 Schizophrenics sometimes feel the presence of an unknown person behind them who mimics their movements. Now scientists have produced the same disturbing effect in a nonschizophrenic person by applying electric stimulation to a specific area of her brain. The discovery could help scientists unravel the brain processes behind delusions of paranoia, persecution, and alien control.