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...BRAIN FOOD...
Ever wonder why you feel so physically rotten when your date doesn't call the next day? It turns out that it's your brain rather than your heart that takes snubbing the hardest. Researchers at UCLA and Macquarie University in Australia have shown that physical pain and the more psychological pain of rejection are processed by the same areas of the brain. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, which records an active brain at work, they tracked college students as they played a three-person computer game designed to exclude one player. When a student was snubbed, two areas...
...SEPARATED. AHMED and MOHAMED IBRAHIM, 2, Egyptian twins joined at the top of their heads, after a 34-hour operation; in Dallas. Specialists said the boys faced possible brain damage or even death on the operating table, but the twins' father said the risk was worth it for them to live normal lives. The boys still face the danger of infection and years of reconstructive surgery...
...happening somewhere, and somebody’s making money off of it. I want to know all about it. Show me the transaction! Use the MTV cut-scene style that leads to epilepsy, if you must, but cram every last bit of information through my eyes and into my brain. It’s exciting, it’s constant, and it’s captivating. CNBC must save thousands of recluses from boredom every year...
...good night's sleep is right up there with chicken soup as a cure-all. But can it help someone beat cancer? A growing body of research suggests it might, according to an article in the current issue of Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Stanford University's Dr. David Spiegel and his colleagues point to studies showing that shift workers have higher rates of breast cancer than women who sleep normal hours. Two possible culprits are the hormones melatonin and cortisol. Melatonin is an antioxidant that mops up damaging free radicals, but the body produces less of it when sleep cycles...