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The Explanation of Tired – Part of Your Sleep-Deprived Brain Has Checked Out (Even if you don’t know it)

  Blog, Brain, Live Better | May 24, 2013 | Eric
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Finally, the answer to why your brain doesn’t work when you’re tired.


Posted in Blog, Brain, Live Better

Who Is That Voice in Your Head? The Origin of Consciousness

  Brain, Origins Of: | March 22, 2013 | Chipwalter
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So when you are talking to yourself, who exactly is doing the talking, and who is doing the listening? Because there is only ONE “you,” right? Or is there? What is the origin of consciousness, …

Posted in Brain, Origins Of: | Tagged brain, Consciousness, evolution, human evolution, self

The Cure for Your Aging Brain?

  Blog, Brain, Live Better | January 14, 2013 | Chipwalter
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By Chip Walter Your brain isn’t getting any younger. You know that, right? It happens. And if you have an aging parent or grandparent, you have witnessed the sad results. Memory grows less sharp. Short …

Posted in Blog, Brain, Live Better

The Brain in the Machine

  Brain | November 27, 2012 | Jen
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Why have we failed at building a viable electronic brain? The devil’s in the details. The human brain is more than just a lump of neurons wired together – and that’s why we aren’t able …

Posted in Brain | Tagged biology, brain, neurology, neuroscience, the New Yorker

Hungry Neurons Make You Hungry

  Brain, Live Better | August 16, 2012 | Jen
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You’re not reading a circular definition – cannibalistic cells might be thwarting your diet. It’s called autophagy (literally “self-eating.”)  By dismantling the precious biochemical building blocks that make up neurons, the body snags a short-term …

Posted in Brain, Live Better | Tagged health, Katherine Bagley, medicine, neurons, obesity, research

Politics Affects How We Perceive Temperature

  Brain | July 30, 2012 | Jen
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The latest casualty in “perception is reality”: weather. The political storm that surrounds AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) has trickled down into how Americans perceive temperature: The results show that not all weather events are created …

Posted in Brain | Tagged climate change, ideology, perception, politics, weather

Can We Put A Price on Mental Health?

  Brain, Human2Human | July 24, 2012 | Jen
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It’s a common phrase in lawsuits: “For pain and suffering.”  But are we doing people a favor by awarding them huge financial settlements?  Or should we instead award them good mental health care? Recently released research …

Posted in Brain, Human2Human | Tagged economics, happiness, money, Psychology, well-being

Emotional Decision Making

  Brain, Human2Human | May 23, 2012 | Jen
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Brain chemistry and emotions play key roles in daily decision making.

 

Posted in Brain, Human2Human | Tagged decision-making, emotion, indecision

Waterboarding Doesn’t Work

  Brain, Human Bizarre | May 18, 2012 | Chipwalter
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Research on “enhanced interrogation” techniques prove to attain the opposite result for the interrogators.

 

Posted in Brain, Human Bizarre | Tagged bush, interrogation, ireland, shane o'mara, stress, trinity college, waterboarding

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The Daily Human for May 22, 2013 – Pac-Man Unleashed

The Daily Human for May 22, 2013 - Pac-Man Unleashed

The most famous arcade game in history was released by Namco with little attention in its native Japan. At the time, game legends Space Invaders and Asteroids were drawing all of the fuss; another one called Rally-X was the newcomer to beat, lighting up the tradeshows. It took an American audience to elevate the story of a hungry yellow pizza to the throne. Read more >>>

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