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• Brain’s fear centre has built-in suffocation sensor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): A new study in mice has revealed that the portion of the brain responsible for registering fear and even panic is equipped with a built-in chemical sensor that is triggered by a primordial terror - suffocation.The research team from University of Iowa hopes that their new discovery may help ...
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• Holiday Blues for Business Boom

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 461
  Ever notice how Thanksgiving and Christmas tend to bring out blues in some and blessings in others? Or how lonely people see vast spaces between themselves and others – even at festive  holiday tables? First glances  show people blessed with close family and  friends feel blessed over holidays while those ...
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• Brain Imaging Illuminates Alzheimer Risk

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 554
  A new study from the University of Kansas School of Medicine demonstrates that brain imaging can determine the genetic risk for Alzheimer’s in healthy subjects. Investigators used automated neuroimaging analysis techniques to characterize the impact of an AD-risk gene, apolipoprotein E (ApoE4), on gray and white ...
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• How teenage brains are different from adult brains

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 18 (ANI): Scientists from the National Institute of Mental Health are using magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, to know how the brains of teenagers function differently than those of adults. The researchers have said that the brain continues to develop structurally through adolescence and on into ...
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• The Problem with Dieting

  
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  A recent study showed just how chronic dieting can turn someone into a food addict. Bad news for yo-yo dieters this week: according to a recent study, cycles of feast and famine can create fast-food junkies–at least in rodents. The researchers put rats on a cyclic diet of 5 days of standard rat chow, followed by 2 ...
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• Anxiety Disorders: What Are They?

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 152
  Everybody in the world knows what it’s aforementioned to see uneasy every erst in awhile. You intend butterflies in your breadbasket before a prototypal date. You move to condensate before a bounteous employ interview. Your hunch pounds when you nearly intend into a car accident. Those are every dead normal ...
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• 11!

  
  Small & Big — Authority: 118
  Woh, yesterday at this time it was 11:11 am on 11/11. The only thing better than this, that the human mind can fathom, is 11/11/11. I have a prophecy. On that day, November 11, 2011, instead of saying “excuse me” after passing gas, “people” will say “presto!” ©2009 P.L. Frederick. Some rights ...
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• How Scents Evoke Memories

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 554
  Have you ever noticed that some smells bring back strong memories? Now, researchers using functional brain imaging techniques have uncovered the scientific basis of memory aromas. Weizmann Institute scientists posited that the key might not necessarily lie in childhood, but rather in the first time a smell is ...
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• How some aromas are bound up in our memories

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 10 (ANI): Some aromas get etched into our memories since childhood, and now researchers at Weizmann Institute have found the scientific basis of this connection.According to graduate student Yaara Yeshurun, along with Profs. Noam Sobel and Yadin Dudai of the Institute’s Neurobiology Department, the ...
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• GM Lead Brain Based Way?

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 461
  Great news from DM according to WSJ’s Paul Glader , and any organization willing to change and grow also holds potential to create a prototype for change and growth – both qualities urgently needed in the broader business community. Bravo! Let’s get behind this initiative and begin to move in new directions as ...
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• Urgent Call for Innovative Interactions

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 461
  Have you noticed that when innovative insights predominate, peaceful resolutions seem more attainable? Creative ideas  flit through  brains  like broadband connects internet to computers, then sadly tend to flee as fast. Why so? The human brain craves action to convert  innovation into realities that work. ...
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• Key excerpt from: “Born to Perform - Psych.Today” + my footnote on why you can train yourself to have nerves of steel

  
  Business Mind Hacks — Authority: 104
  Psychology Today’s "Born to Perform" article highlights new research on the mechanism underlying anxiety control. It explains how some people appear to show "nerves of steel", even thrive on being the center of massive attention, while others can never seem to be able to get over their stage fright, public ...
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• Just Listen - 2009 Neuroleadership Summit - How to foil an amygdala hijack

  
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  In this increasingly competitive, survival of the fittest, winner take all, loser lose out world the spectre of mans inhumanity to man bubbles up as our common amygdalae are being hijacked daily. I just finished attending and appearing as a panelist at the 2009 Neuroleadership Summit in Los Angeles from October ...
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