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...larger of the two studies - a broad review of data from about 3,000 interviews with women in Olmsted County, Minn. - is among the first to show that ovarian preservation and estrogen therapy protect brain function. Of the study participants, who were all matched for age, 813 women had one ovary removed and 676 women had both ovaries removed, while the 1,472 women in the control group had both ovaries intact. Half of the women had oophorectomies because of a benign condition, such as infection or cysts, and the other half had their ovaries removed prophylactically to prevent ovarian...
...with that. While Saks has soared to the top of academia - a graduate degree from Oxford, a law degree from Yale, and a tenured professorship at the University of Southern California - she has also been shackled and involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. Saks, 52, has schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects one in a hundred Americans. People with schizophrenia (which affect men and women equally) sometimes suffer from hallucinations, delusions, and imagined voices. Saks' remarkable new book is a voice from a country rarely heard from, the land of psychosis. Like Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen...
...terrified, you're confused, you have beliefs that are bizarre and frightening and confusing. I hallucinate a little bit, but not much. Mostly I form delusional beliefs, like that I have killed lots of people with my thoughts, or people are setting off nuclear explosions in my brain, or my brain's going to leak out of my ears and drown people. Weird things like that, which are obviously terrifying...
...second experiment was conducted at Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne in Switzerland, by a team including neurologist Olaf Blanke, whose work with out-of-body experiences suggests that their neural underpinnings reside in the brain's temporo-parietal junction. Blanke and his colleagues had participants watch their own backs being stroked - either through a video feed coming live to their eyes or through one coming slightly out of synch. Afterward, the participants were blindfolded and asked to return to their original place in the room; on average, those who had had the in-synch physical stimuli - and, thus, the real...
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez wants to help citizens improve their metabolism and efficiency, so on Jan. 1, 2008, he plans to move clocks ahead 30 minutes. During a seven-hour radio address, Chávez said that "the human brain is conditioned by sunlight" and Technology Minister Hector Navarro noted that more daylight hours would benefit "all Venezuelans in their jobs and studies...