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...thoughts of Prince Charles stray into your mind as you watch His Grace, that's your business. The same is true of Georgiana, who is the ancestor of Princess Di, except, that in the 18th century, her brain cells were not yet completely replaced by air. She conveys a nice sense of an untutored woman trying to embrace the world beyond the bounds of her class, while not being harassed by it - or by the tabloids, which existed in primitive form in those days, too. The Duchess, however, does not insist on such analogies; they're there...
...known as AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation), involves the collaboration of 25 major medical centers through Europe, Canada and the U.S. and will examine some 1,500 survivors of cardiac arrest. TIME spoke with Parnia about the project's origins, its skeptics and the difference between the mind and the brain...
When your heart stops beating, there is no blood getting to your brain. And so what happens is that within about 10 sec., brain activity ceases -as you would imagine. Yet paradoxically, 10% or 20% of people who are then brought back to life from that period, which may be a few minutes or over an hour, will report having consciousness. So the key thing here is, Are these real, or is it some sort of illusion? So the only way to tell is to have pictures only visible from the ceiling and nowhere else, because they claim they...
...certain weight-related hormones, such as ghrelin, or the hunger hormone, are directly reduced by the patient's physically smaller stomach (ghrelin is produced by glands in the stomach), leading to a reduction in food intake. Meanwhile, the smaller stomach more readily triggers hormones that signal satiety to the brain, sending the message that the body has taken in its fill of calories. But the longer this system has been overwhelmed with too much sugar and too many calories as occurs in diabetes, experts suspect, the more difficult it is to normalize the body's metabolic thresholds and molecular messages...
Though the FDA has ruled BPA safe, not everyone in the government agrees. Earlier this month the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a federal agency that gauges the safety of chemicals, reported that its research shows "some concern" about the effects of BPA on the brain development of fetuses and young children. (Children are considered particularly vulnerable to the chemical, which is thought to interfere with development.) Critics note that the FDA's report relied on a small number of studies funded by industry groups that manufacture BPA, while the NTP took in a wider range of science. "The FDA says...