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Time Magazine: Mind & Body Issue
Time's special issue feature explores what we know and don't yet know about mind, brain, body, and consciousness. How does this affect personal development?
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Time Magazine: More Mind & Body
This continues a review of Time's special issue feature which explores what we know and don't yet know about mind, brain, body, and consciousness.
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Glutamate Excess in Multiple Sclerosis Variants
Accumulations of the amino acid neurotoxin glutamate, long suspected of causing neurological disease, have been implicated in neuromyelitis optica (NMO).
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Dr Kawashima's Brain Training
Dr Kawashima offers to improve brain power in just 60 days. This book may even be more effective than the Nintendo brain training game that bears Kawashima's name.
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Neuroscientific Studies of Buddhist Meditation
This study of meditation exemplifies a case of science and religion working together, in a positive relationship, to deepen the understanding of the mind.
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A new study about pain and depression in Fibromyaliga patients.
One more small study leads towards a confimation of our pain!
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Asperger Syndrome Research Projects
This article is about the current and past research projects into the causes of Asperger Syndrome.
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Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Brain
Current trends in neuroscience offer evidence that we can consciously improve our health and well-being by simply changing our minds.
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Damaged Brains?
Research findings showing neuropsychological impairment of the type commonly associated with brain disease in patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, even under treatment with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, raise fears of irreversible "brain damage" as a consequence of OSA. However, research has yet to separate continuous impairment from state-dependent impairment related to varying levels of Excessive Daytime Sleepiness. Until such studies show otherwise, patients should maintain an attitude of concern enough to keep track of new findings, but resist counterproductive worry and anxiety over the issue.
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How Meditation Changes Brain Function
Neuroscientists like Richard Davidson have found that regular meditation can fundamentally alter the way the brain functions.
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Meditation Changes the Brain
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson found that meditation has a profound and permanent impact on the brain, improving its capacities for awareness and happiness.
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Teenage Gaming Addiction Increasing
About one in 10 children is addicted to video or Internet games, a new study from the National Institute on Media and Family found.
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What Causes OCD?
Review of the current theories about the cause of OCD
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Why Do Men Like Video Games So Much?
A study conducted last year at Stanford University revealed that there's a scientific explanation for why your boyfriend can't stop playing his favorite video game.
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Depression in Men is Real Though Treatable
Depression is a condition that can affect anyone, anytime. It is common for depression to go undetected by sufferers. Men are not likely to admit to depression.
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Integrative Medicine
Look for modern hospitals and medical practices that use a variety of optional techniques to complement patient health and recovery.
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Researching Dyslexia
Dyslexia research, most often with people suffering from alexia, studies the brain's processes while reading, through functional imaging tests (or PETs and fMRIs).
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Those Who Complete Suicide Provide Warning Signs
Suicide in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. More people die by suicide each year than homicide. Learning the signs and interventions provides hope.
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Why Meditate?
A regular meditation practice can have many beneficial results on different levels such as health, well-being, mind, brain and spirit.
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Brain Damage and Marijuana
"Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain." Headline of an article by Kurt Kleiner, Oct. 13, 2005.
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Brave New Millennium - Part II
Science may open into a bright new dawn, but can we as humans deliver on that promise?
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Causes of Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue is a symptom of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), but there are many other possible causes as well.
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Dopamine Upregulation
The human brain compensates for conventional antipsychotics by increasing the number of D2 receptors, which has serious implications when people stop taking their medication.
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Review of "Magnificent Mind at Any Age"
Anyone interested in improving health, living a satisfying life, or understanding human behavior will benefit from Dr. Amen's new health and personal development book.
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Schizophrenia: Youth's Greatest Disabler - part 1
Part one of a series on Schizophrenia in youth.
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Sites From Down Under
Australia has some very unique and interesting sites on schizophrenia. In early recognition and treatment, and true partnership based policy development, they are ahead of North America.
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The Antisiocial Brain & Violence
A recent study in the American Journal of Psychiatry suggests that frontal lobe abnormalities of those with APD may contribute to violent behavior.
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What Causes Depression?
Medical research has yet to determine what causes depression. Key suspects in the search for a cause include stress, genetics, brain chemistry and hormonal imbalances.
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What isn't Known about Schizophrenia (Part One)
An introduction to a disease about which much is unknown
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Explaining OCD
Have trouble explaining the cause of OCD to friends, family and communitiy? Cherry will help you and your loved ones understand what's happening in your brain.
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Life on a Pendulum: Bipolarism
Doubting Thomases: The saddest truth about this illness is that most people don't believe it exists. You can't convince them you're dying until you're dead.
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ADD and ADHD in Preschool and Toddlers
Children are born with ADHD, it's not acquired. Most of the characteristics of ADHD are similar to many typical behaviors in preschool children, a challenge for diagnosis
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MindFul-Things Weekly July 26, 2002
Another great issue of Mindful-Things Weekly... enjoy!!
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The Adolescent Brain and Decision Making Skills
The prefrontal cortex, known as the "thinking brain" plays a big role in decision making skills but the limbic system may be responsible for high risk taking in teens.
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Understanding Alzheimer's Disease
While some memory loss and mild cognitive impairment may be routine for the elderly, these symptoms might also indicate a more serious problem. Learn what can be done.
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