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• Eating Bacon and Eggs Could Help Moms-to-Be Boost Intelligence of Unborn Baby

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 531
  Scientists have found that a chemical in pork products and eggs can help the growing brain to develop.  A new study suggests that the micronutrient, called choline, is critical to helping babies in the womb develop parts of their brains linked to memory and recall. Previous studies have demonstrated that a woman’s ...
  17 hours ago

• How to Overcome Your Insecurities

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 450
  Insecurity is defined, in a psychological sense, as a feeling of apprehensiveness and uncertainty; a lack of assurance or stability.  More fundamentally, it is the basic fear of the unknown.  It is not hard to imagine how one could decide to avoid making certain decisions and taking certain risks due to the fear ...
  22 hours ago

• Tiny "Vacuum Cleaner" For the Brain – Interventional Catheter Removes Blood Clots in the Brain

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 143
    The key is to get to a hospital as soon as possible with a stroke, especially one that is deemed a “stroke center” as they have interventional doctors to handle the problem.  This is another procedure that is run via the groin and goes up to the brain and sucks out the clot.  It saves the stroke victim and ...
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• Scientific Breakthrough: Brain Implant Turns Thought Into Sound

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 531
  In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has “spoken” three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by an implant deep in his brain. Scientists say such systems could be a scientific breakthrough in communication if they could add more ...
  3 days ago

• Sleep-Deprived Teens Could Suffer From Depression

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 531
  Sleep-deprived teenagers are far more likely to suffer from depressionTeenagers with set bedtimes are far less likely to suffer from depression or suicidal thoughts, according to a new study.  Researchers looked at data from more than 15,000 adolescents and their parents in the U.S. They found half of young adults ...
  3 days ago

• Economic Forecast 2010 – Light at the End of the Tunnel?

  
  Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology - Nevada's Business Starts Here — Authority: 136
  As we prepare to close the book on 2009, we Nevadans find ourselves in a long, dark tunnel. Our unemployment rate is over 13 percent; only Michigan’s is worse. We have the highest deficits, and have experienced the greatest fall in personal income. Nevada’s foreclosure rates are the highest, and its homeowners ...
  3 days ago

• Its the Start of the New Year, the Start of the New Decade, and the Start of My Sixties. Some Simple Strategies for Staying Healthy and Happy. At Least I Can Hope!

  
  Happy Healthy Long Life — Authority: 111
  Author Dan Buettner has scoured the Earth — not for the fabled Fountainof Youth — but for the key to a happy old age. He spent five yearsvisiting areas of the world where people tend to live longer, healthierlives, areas he calls "Blue Zones." Buettner says he has identified four things people can do that ...
  3 days ago

• Research Shows Appetite Hormone May Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Source: VOA News (30 December 2009, Carol Pearson, Washington) – Research Shows Appetite Hormone May Help Protect Against Alzheimer’s Experts predict a global epidemic of Alzheimer’s disease as the world’s population ages. Their focus is now on a fat hormone that may indicate who is more likely to get ...
  4 days ago

• Gingko Does Zilch for the Brain! Part 2

  
  EmpowHer.com - Site Activity Feed — Authority: 466
  Dr. DeKosky, Vice Dean of the School of Medicine, at the University of Virginia, says, "For me, this kind of closes the book on whether or not, if you start taking ginkgo later in life, you are going to have cognitive benefit. We dont have good evidence that it maintains good brain health." read more
  6 days ago

• Reasons to Watch Your Weight – From Your Brain’s Perspective

  
  Mental Fitness Blog — Authority: 106
  We all know the physical reasons to watch our weight:  Diabetes, heart disease, cholesterol, respiratory problems, and even cancer have all been linked to weight related problems. Experts now tell us that there’s yet another reason to keep our weight where it needs to be. If you are a healthy weight, your mind is ...
  6 days ago

• Taking Ginkgo Biloba Is A ‘Waste of Time’

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 532
  Kate Devlin writes in the Telegraph : Elderly people who took Ginkgo biloba every day for six years had as many difficulties with recall as those who took a fake supplement, the largest study of its kind has shown. At least 100,000 people in Britain are thought to regularly take the supplement, which has been ...
  6 days ago

• Amino acids for cognitive impairments from brain injury

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 134
  CHOP.edu - Neurology researchers have shown that feeding branched-chain amino acids to brain-injured animals restores their cognitive abilities and may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with traumatic brain injury.“We have shown in an animal model that ...
  1 week ago

• “We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys” ~ William Arthur Ward.

  
  Funny Emails — Authority: 149
  Weird SuperpowersTim Cridland Doesn’t Feel PainTim Cridland is an entertainer and a former member of the Jim Rose Circus. Tim specializes in sword swallowing, fire walking, sleeping on beds of nails (once even with a Toyota over him), body [...]
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• Synthetic Alcohol That Avoids Drunkeness and Hangovers In Development

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 531
  An alcohol substitute that mimics its pleasant buzz without leading to drunkenness and hangovers is being developed by scientists. The new substance could have the added bonus of being “switched off” instantaneously with a pill, to allow drinkers to drive home or return to work. The synthetic alcohol, being ...
  1 week ago

• Depression lowers activity of brain reward centers

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 134
  Wisc.edu - Patients with depression are unable to sustain activity in brain reward centers related to positive emotion, according to a new study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.The NIMH-funded study challenges previous notions that individuals with depression show less brain activity in areas associated with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dispatches from the front lines of consciousness

  
  Shrink Rap — Authority: 137
  Psychologists have many ways to get inside our heads: they can give us questionnaires, track our eyes, time how long we take to respond to cues and measure the blood flow to our brains. But how close can these methods get to the texture of our inner lives? In the New York Times article Taking [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Science Can Spark Your Design Ideas (Video)

  
  Sensing Architecture by Maria Lorena Lehman — Authority: 120
  Designs are increasingly inspired by nature in novel and unique ways — inspiring not only architectural buildings, but also the objects within them. “ Science inspired designs ” are sparking some very innovative and practical solutions. Mathieu Lehanneur is just such a designer who, in the video at the bottom of ...
  2 weeks ago

• How To Help Boost the Self Esteem of People With Cerebral Palsy

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 153
  Brought to you by cheap on-line upbeat shelter quotes. People with Cerebral Palsy (CP) also go finished life’s customary phases of ups and downs which are ordinary and normal stages in chronicle and lettered how to support increase consciousness worth for grouping with Cerebral Palsy is the prototypal travel to ...
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• Nutrition & Health - the big picture

  
  Nutrition & Healthy Cooking — Authority: 149
  My opinion on two of the biggest problems with the American diet today. Lack of antioxidants and omega 3 fatty acids is potentially causing much of the health crisis facing America and other modern countries. As usual, by eating traditional, minimally processed foods this issue is generally addressed. keywords: ...
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• Michael Merzenich on Brain Training, Assessments, and Personal Brain Trainers

  
  SharpBrains — Authority: 525
  Dr. Michael Merzenich , Emeritus Professor at UCSF, is a leading pioneer in brain plasticity research. In the late 1980s, Dr. Merzenich was on the team that invented the cochlear implant. In 1996, he was the founding CEO of Scientific Learning Corporation (Nasdaq: SCIL), and in 2004 became co-founder and Chief ...
  2 weeks ago

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