keep memory alive

2010-02-28T18:01:53Z

Wolfgang Puck and Thomas Keller Keep Memory Alive's Power of Love Gala to Benefit The Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health at The Bellagio Resort Casino Las Vegas, CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers have discovered a distinct pattern of brain activity in people with post traumatic stress disorder that may give doctors an objective way to test for it, they said on Wednesday.</p><p>Using a brain imaging device called magnetoen...

Exercise protects and improves the aging brain

2010-02-22T19:45:43Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two new studies provide more evidence that regular aerobic exercise not only staves off the problems with thinking and memory that often come with age, but it can actually help turn back the clock on brain aging.</p><p>In one study, researchers found evidence that engaging in moderate physical activity such as brisk walking, swimming, or yo...

Learn about Fish Oil Brain Benefits

2010-02-23T13:32:39Z

Author: Laurel Cohen

I want to talk to you for a minute about fish oil brain benefits, because a lot of people are still in the dark about how much good supplementing the diet with omega 3 fatty acids can do. The human brain is the richest source of fatty acids in the body, and a steady intake of DHA omega 3 fatty acids is necessary in order to keep the brain functioning properly. Omega fatty acids are essential to sound mental health.

Of course, DHA and

Cocaine users can control cravings: U.S. study

2010-02-23T22:51:35Z

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cocaine addicts can control their cravings by willpower alone, U.S. researchers reported on Monday in a study that suggests the right training may help abusers kick the habit.</p><p>They said their volunteers could control cravings even when they saw the typical cues that make people want...

Boosting neurotransmitter could reverse Down Syndrome: study

2010-02-24T03:44:22Z

<div><p>Boosting a neurotransmitter called norepinephrine in sufferers of Down Syndrome could help reverse the condition, which is the most common cause of mental retardation in children, a study showed Wednesday.</p><p>"If you intervene early enough, you will be able to help kids with Down Syndrome to collect and modulate information," said Ahmad Salehi, the lead author of the study, ...

IBM takes a (feline) step toward thinking machines

2010-02-24T04:03:15Z

<div id="subtitle">Scientists model cat's brain with huge supercomputer, a step toward a better-reasoning machine</div><div><p>Scientists say they've made a breakthrough in their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain — an effort that tests the limits of technology.</p><p>Even the world's most powerful supercomputers can't replicate basic aspects of the human mind. The machines can't imagin...

Brain science starting to impact varied fields

2010-02-24T18:41:03Z

<div><p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - It used to be that only doctors were interested in brain scans, searching the images for tumors, concussions or other health problems hiding inside a patient's skull.</p><p>More and more, though, images showing neurons firing in different areas of the brain are gaining attention fro...

Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains

2010-02-24T19:55:43Z

<div><p>Neuroscientists have discovered that learning to juggle causes changes in white matter, the nerve strands which help different parts of the brain communicate with each other.</p><p>University of Oxford researchers recruited 48 healthy young adults who were unable to juggle and put them in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner to get a cross-sect...

Report: CIA interrogations informed by bad science

2010-02-25T04:30:15Z

<div><p>Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday.</p><p>The methods could even have caused the suspects to create — and believe — false memories,...

British John Mayer, Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire

2009-09-17T15:16:41Z

epa01865154 British John Mayer, Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire and known as father of the Emotional Intelligence, gestures during a press conference on the occasion of the II International Conference ...

Science, Renaissance experts win Italy's Balzan Prize

2010-02-25T10:45:25Z

<div><p>The prestigious Balzan Prize was awarded Monday to a British expert on Renaissance literature, a Canadian neuroscience pioneer, an Italian science historian and a Swiss-German solar cell researcher.</p><p>This year's prizes, named after anti-fascist Italian reporter Eugenio Balzan who went into exile in Switzerland in th...

High blood pressure linked to memory woes

2010-02-25T12:14:14Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - High blood pressure can make it hard for middle-aged adults to think clearly and remember things, according to a new study.</p><p>The study found that people in their mid-40s and older with high diastolic blood pressure -- the bottom number of a blood pressure reading -- were more likely to have "cognitive" impairment, or problems with thei...

High blood pressure linked to memory woes: study

2010-02-25T12:16:10Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - High blood pressure can make it hard for middle-aged adults to think clearly and remember things, according to new study.</p><p>Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that people in their mid-40s and older with high dia...

Unleash Your Hidden Subliminal Power For Massive Success

2010-02-25T13:51:14Z

Psychologists describe the mind as an atypical entity within the human structure. Science, medicine and experts in the field of mental archaeology freely admit that they have traversed only a fraction of the mind?s potential. There are many things unknown and they only have an intermediate idea on how the brain functions. In truth, there are still decades of research into how the mind works - many people believe that the mind is capable of self healing and even re generation.<br&gt...

Marketing To Women

2010-02-25T14:44:05Z

In order to make any reasonable commentary on marketing to women in the early part of the 21st century it is first essential that the position of women as consumers is stated as definitely as possible.<br><br>To start with the most startling of stats, according to a report from 2000, ?women purchase or influence the purchase of 80% of all consumer goods and influence 80% of all healthcare decisions.?<br><br>This figure is not simply limi...

The Science of Persuasion

2010-02-25T20:33:49Z

I saw a statistic which says that 95 percent of what we know about the human brain has been learned in the last ten years. Science is just beginning to understand how the most complicated organ in the human body functions. Neuroscientists now have the technology to observe the brain in action through the recent development of brain imaging technology.<br><br>Dr. Richard Restak produced a five part series f...

First seizure may fuel thinking trouble in kids

2010-02-25T21:07:37Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children who are intellectually normal may have problems with language, memory, learning and other thinking or "cognitive" skills at or around the time they experience a first epileptic seizure, according to new research out in the medical journal Neurology.</p><p>"Our study highlights the importance of testing children with epilepsy for po...

New Insights Gained Into Causes Of Anorexia

2010-02-26T05:42:17Z

<div id="subtitle">New technology examines whys and wherefores of eating disorder</div><div><p>New imaging technology provides insight into abnormalities in the brain circuitry of patients with anorexia that may contribute to the puzzling symptoms found in people with the eating disorder.</p><p>In a review paper published on line in Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Wa...

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