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• Rerun - Skunk!

  
  Knowledge Is Necessity — Authority: 128
  This from August ... Let it be known throughout the land: Raccoons respect my piss.In a recent blog piece, I reported on my “solution” to unwelcome raccoon visitors entering the house through the cat flap.A couple of nights ago, I heard a mysterious scratching outside my bedroom door. A neighborhood cat? Return of ...
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• The Nature of Excitement

  
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      Fear is excitement without breath. Robert Heller Yesterday, I saw an old friend and she asked me whats new? With great enthusiasm I told her "I started a blog". Immediately, she asked "can your patients read it?" I said, "absolutely and you should watch what you say since your words may show up tomorrow". ...
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• Scrambled brain connections linked to generalized anxiety disorder

  
  Latest entries from www.anxietyinsights.info — Authority: 136
  By Stephanie Pappas Stanford University School of Medicine Scrambled connections between the part of the brain that processes fear and emotion and other brain regions could be the hallmark of a common anxiety disorder, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The findings could ...
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• 5 Surefire Steps to Sluggish Profit

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 116
  “I use less than 20 percent of my brain on the job,” a health care worker told me a few days ago. Another neighbor lost his ability to sleep, and speaks of constant frustrations at work. Are you hearing similar stories? Few people find fulfillment at work these day, while profits continue to plummet into ...
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• Urgent Call to White House – Help Teens!

  
  Brain Leaders and Learners — Authority: 116
  Government Funds Promote Failing Secondary Schools People say stimulus money simply creates new layers of bureaucracy that prolong broken secondary school programs. My question is: How will the White House Campaign to Promote Science and Math Education support teens to climb new mental  peaks?  Will ...
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• An Acidic Brain Leads to Panic; A Deep Breath Can Fix That

  
  80beats — Authority: 637
  When people breathe in carbon dioxide, they start to panic. It happens in mice and other animals, too, as the body responds to the threat of suffocation. Now, in a study in Cell , researchers have connected a particular gene to that response in the brain. The gene, called ASIC1a, is connected to a protein found in ...
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• Men: total (video) game players!

  
  Science Cheerleader — Authority: 128
  Now we know why our own Dr. John seems obsessed with Super Mario Kart. (Check out his world records .) Found this (2008) first-of-its-kind study where researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine demonstrate how the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than ...
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• A Note to the Severely Depressed: Don’t Try So Hard

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 569
  I don’t know about you, but when I’m severely depressed 90 percent of my negative thinking is based on the fact that I am a failure because all my cognitive-behavioral strategies and positive thinking and mindfulness attempts aren’t working. I discussed this with Dr. Smith yesterday and she reminded me, once ...
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• Scientists explain why breathing carbon dioxide triggers panic attack

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Toronto, Nov 26 (IANS) Breathing in carbon dioxide is known to trigger panic attacks. Now scientists have unravelled why.A new study by University of Iowa (UI) researchers shows that carbon dioxide increases brain acidity, which triggers a protein that is central to fear and anxiety behaviour. Inhalation of carbon ...
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• Brain’s fear centre has built-in suffocation sensor

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  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: 116
  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: 577
  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: 729
  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

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  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: 151
  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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