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Ketamine Reduces Suicidality In Depressed Patients, Study Suggests
Drug treatment options for depression can take weeks for the beneficial effects to emerge, which is clearly inadequate for those at immediate risk of suicide. However, intravenous (IV) ketamine, a...
Groups Are Key To Good Health
The quality of a person's social life could have an even greater impact than diet and exercise on their health and well-being. There is growing evidence that being a member...
The New Science of Learning
(PhysOrg.com) -- According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the...
Sleep Helps Reduce Errors In Memory, Research Suggests
Sleep may reduce mistakes in memory, according to a first-of-its-kind study. The findings have practical implications for everyone from students flubbing multiple choice tests to senior citizens confusing their medications.
Memory Scientists Say: All Is Not Forgotten
Though they seem inaccessible, forgotten details persist in our brains Unless you are this woman, you probably have a long mental list of moments and facts you wish you could remember --...
Don't stand by me: When involving an interested party may not be in your best interest
CHICAGO (September 10, 2009) -- When business leaders leave organizations following poor decisions, constituents often find comfort in replacing them with insiders -- others familiar with the problem...
Vital Signs: Sickened by Brownies, but It Wasn’t Food Poisoning
When several preschool teachers fell sick after eating brownies, public health investigators suspected it wasn’t a typical case of food poisoning. The real problem was something a little different.
Top Tennis Players Simply See Better
Expert tennis players, like Roger Federer, have an advantage in certain visual perception skills.
Vitamin junkies are flushing their money down the toilet, says nutritionist
Unless you have particular dietary needs, vitamin supplements are probably a waste of money and may even be harmful, a nutritionist told a meeting at the British Science Festival
You Can Believe Your Eyes: New Insights Into Memory Without Conscious Awareness
Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report...
Machines can't replicate human image recognition, yet
While computers can replicate many aspects of human behaviour, they do not possess our ability to recognise distorted images, according to a team of Penn State researchers...
Study explains some mysteries of neonatal seizures
A study led by MassGeneral Hospital for Children (MGHfC) investigators is providing new insight into the mechanism of neonatal seizures, which have features very different from seizures in older children...
5 Things a Man Never Wants to Hear a Woman Say
Navigating the world of interpersonal relationships is tricky, and that’s even when you don’t put your foot in your mouth and say something stupid. But we all do it eventually,...
Learning addiction: Dopamine reinforces drug-associated memories
New research with mice has provided some fascinating insight into how addictive drugs hijack reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory. The research, published by Cell...
Music lessons improve memory, intelligence and behaviour
As the government launches the National Year of Music, a new report confirms that learning an instrument has many benefits for children
Findings could lead to improved lip-reading training for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
A new study by the University of East Anglia suggests computers are now better at lip-reading than humans.
Female sexuality
A man’s orgasm is critical to impregnating a woman and, since a man can theoretically impregnate a different woman with each ejaculation, it makes sense that men are motivated by...
Physical Culture: Fitness Tailored to a Hijab
Muslim women face particular challenges in keeping fit and upholding principles about modesty.
Is inhibition a measure of free will?
Reading Alwyn Scott's "Stairway to the Mind" I came across an interesting tidbit of information pointing out that human's have a greater percentage of inhibitory neurons compared to other animals...
The Science of Scotch
If I could do it all over again, I would forget genomics and specialize in the chemistry of Scotch. You may scoff, dear reader, but there are employment opportunities out...
Nicotine Creates Stronger Memories, Cues To Drug Use
Ever wonder why former smokers miss lighting up most when they are in a bar or after a meal with friends? Researchers say nicotine, the addictive component in cigarettes, "tricks"...
Science And Journalism: Scientists Engage Journalists More Than Is Perceived
Are scientists press shy? Are researchers who engage journalists ridiculed by other researchers as not serious enough? No, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers in...
BDNF and DeltaFosB
Does anyone here know anything about the relationship (if any) between BDNF and Delta FosB? It's my understanding that both are proteins that play roles in addiction. My web site draws a lot...
Researchers looking for genetic predictors for suicide
Every 16 minutes, an American commits suicide. It's the 11th leading cause of death in this country, a fact being widely noted during National Suicide Prevention Week Sept. 6-12. ...
B.C. health-care worker wins gender discrimination suit
A man who was rejected for a job as a health-care worker at a senior's home in Nelson, B.C., because of his gender has been awarded nearly $12,000 by the...
There's Little Science-Based Evidence In The Health Care Debate Because There's Little In Health Care
In case you haven't heard, there's a debate about health care reform going on - today we find out that a campaign promise, no fines if you choose not to...
Can Video Game Testing Spark Interest in Computing Among Black Youth?
Walk into almost any household that includes teenage boys and you'll find one or more video game consoles. Walk into that household past 10PM and you`re likely to find one...
Kenya maintains innovation despite political strife
Kenya has maintained second place in Sub-Saharan Africa innovation rankings while other African countries have shown improvement.