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• Strategies to Protect New Brain Cells Against Alzheimers Disease

  
  dementia views you can use — Authority: 127
  Here is a great dementia resource for caregivers and healthcare professinals, Here is information on being the best caregiver you can be Here are more interesting dementia brain boosting Corrier-journal.comactivities Here is a dementia music activity ScienceDaily — Stimulating the growth of new neurons ...
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• It’s official: Dogs are smarter than cats, but just

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Dec 10 (ANI): The world is divided into “dog people” and “cat people”, each passionately believing that their preferred pet is superior. Now, a new study has put an end to this long debate, by claiming that dogs are indeed better than felines.And thus, while attempting to quantify the characteristics ...
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• The Nature of Excitement

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
      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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• What Path Have You Chosen?

  
  Anyone can be a Healer — Authority: 120
  How long have you been seeking authentic truth? Although the collective energy usually presents itself as drowning in chaos, I firmly hold onto the transfiguring divine love known as the Feminine Principle, Holy Spirit, the Divine Mother vibration. It is a mighty force and the greatest as far as I am concerned in the ...
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• Aggression-promoting pheromone in flies discovered

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, December 7 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an aggression-promoting pheromone, specific chemicals used by a particular species to communicate and to control their behavior, in flies.The study, published in Nature, also identified the neurons in the fly’s antenna that detect this pheromone and relay the ...
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• Being ‘on the same wavelength’: the neuroscience of social interaction

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  Located in the brain’s “mirror neurons” is the physiological mechanism for social interaction. Parts of our brains become active when we see something in motion, for example. ‘It seems we are not just observers of the social scene but that we automatically share the experiences and emotions of the people we ...
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• Stable nerves preserve memories lifelong

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 4 (IANS) Our ability to absorb new information or to retain lifelong memories seems to lie in the minute junctions where nerve cells communicate, says a new study.New York University School of Medicine (NYUSM) researchers discovered that a delicate balancing act occurs in the brain where nerve cell ...
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• Anticipation of sweets ’causes muscles to start taking up more blood sugar’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 2 (ANI): Even the anticipation of bingeing on donuts, ice cream and chocolate truffle can cause your muscles to start taking up more blood sugar, scientists have said.According to researchers, who reported the study in the December issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, the message is ...
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• Mirror system activity for action and language is embedded in the integration of dorsal and ventral pathways

  
  COMD News — Authority: 155
  We develop the view that the involvement of mirror neurons in embodied experience grounds brain structures that underlie language, but that many other brain regions are involved. We stress the cooperation between the dorsal and ventral streams in praxis and language. Both have perceptual and motor schemas but the ...
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• Hormone Slows Parkinson’s

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 576
  A hormone produced in the stomach may be used to provide resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s disease is caused by a degeneration of dopamine neurons in an area of the midbrain known as the substantia nigra, which is responsible for dopamine production. Yale researcher ...
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• The fMRI of understanding others regret.

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 517
  Rizzolatti and colleagues carry the mirror neuron story to an even higher level in a study of regret: Previous studies showed that the understanding of others basic emotional experiences is based on a “resonant” mechanism, i.e., on the reactivation, in the observers brain, of the cerebral areas associated with ...
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• Structure of ‘temple of the mind’ unlocked

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  London, Nov 30 (ANI): Researchers have unravelled the structure of a very complicated and important brain protein, which is shaped like a temple-an accomplishment that could trigger the development of new treatments for a wealth of neurological disorders.Eric Gouaux and his colleagues undertook the difficult task of ...
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• Are you promoting yawning in your mediations? If not, you may want to rethink that

  
  Brains On Purpose — Authority: 458
  Yawning can affect the way we interact with each other. Read what neuroscientist Dr. Andrew Newberg has to say about that mouth-opened-wide action. From "Yawn: It’s one of the best things you can do for your brain" (Penn Gazette): Several recent brain-scan studies have shown that yawning evokes a unique neural ...
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• Who Shoulders Blame and Why Should We Care?

  
  Brain Based Biz — Authority: 103
  Ever miss seeing a person in your side-view mirror? When something goes wrong, pointing a fingers more often a first reactions rather than admitting a mistake? Ever wonder why blaming someone else comes so easily? Photo by a2gemma Consider this scenario... At work, a note with an outlined project got lost in ...
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• Stomach hormone may help slow Parkinson’s progression

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 26 (ANI): Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a hormone produced in the stomach that can help boost resistance to, or slow, the development of Parkinson’s disease.Parkinson’s disease is caused by a degeneration of dopamine neurons in an area of the midbrain known as the substantia ...
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• Polyphenols and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Boost the Birth of New Neurons, Study Finds

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  You can now add consuming healthy fats and fruits to the exercise as a way to increase neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons in the brain. However, I will want to see these results reproduced by independent researchers - this study was funded and conducted by the people making the "functional food" under review. ...
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• Origins of empathetic yawning?

  
  Deric Bownds' MindBlog — Authority: 517
  Interesting observations by Palagi et al : Yawn contagion in humans has been proposed to be related to our capacity for empathy. It is presently unclear whether this capacity is uniquely human or shared with other primates, especially monkeys. Here, we show that in gelada baboons (Theropithecus gelada) yawning is ...
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• Cells that last a lifetime

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 431
  Q: If I am 95 years old, do I have any cells in my body that were present when I was 3 years old? What about at conception? Also, could you expand on your earlier statement, “stem cells live a lifetime?” In a nutshell, I am curious if I am a completely “new” person or if there is anything “in” me that has ...
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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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• IBM’s biggest brain simulator works as good as a cat’s brain (only)

  
  Technology Info — Authority: 451
  The human brain is far too complex, the biggest brain simulator built by IBM, run by a 147,456-processor supercomputer, can only reach the level of a cat’s brain.This brain simulator was developed by IBM’s Almaden research center. It consists of 1.6 billion virtual neurons connected by 9 trillion synapses, which ...
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