Word: behavior
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...dementia therapies that the evidence can validate - currently only two types of drugs have received government approval in the U.S. to slow the progression of Alzheimer's, but both offer only limited benefits - and many caregivers, desperate to better the lives of their patients, resort to such low-tech, behavior-based solutions as singing. (Read "Ginko Biloba Does Not Prevent Alzheimer...
...cancel out privileges we feel bad about. Instead, we should try to avoid accumulating too much vulgar privilege in the first place—a quantity that isn’t measured in crude indexes like money or education or employment, but in the degree to which our social behavior trends either toward humility or toward hierarchism...
...research with cotton top tamarin monkeys to work with dogs instead. Hauser said that the rising costs of care for the 40 tamarins that reside in the lab were getting too high—especially in the current economic climate—considering that his research is purely behavioral. “The granting that funds behavioral work have nowhere near the kinds of budget as the funds for biomedical research,” Hauser said. While the monkeys have been a source of controversy for animal activists, they provide a relatively rare research opportunity for Hauser?...
...activity has “very likely” been the main cause for that change over the last 50 years. It is thus troubling that one in five Americans remain unconvinced by the vast majority of the scientific community that we have an immediate obligation to change our behavior and to protect our planet...
...been unable to elucidate.Lichtman says the explanation may lie in humans’ longer period of mental development—a process tied to how connectomes change. If brainbow can illuminate such developments, scientists could begin to better understand the brain.“I was interested in behavior in some way that was hard to put your finger on,” Sanes says. “What spot in the brain accounts for how we act? When somebody has a nervous breakdown, what is actually breaking down? We’re beginning to claw our way there...