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...mystery may have been solved, by a team of neuroscientists at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. Researcher Thomas McHugh and several colleagues have uncovered a specific memory circuit in the brains of mice that is probably the cause of this weird sensation, which turns out to be a sort of memory-based analogue of an optical illusion. Although neuroscientists have realized for some time that memory is made up of many different components--long and short term, episodic (that is to say, memories of events) and fact based, and that it takes place in different parts...
...Specter is also championing Bush's controversial nominee to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Leslie Southwick. Critics of the judge cite two of his District Court decisions that could be construed as racist and anti-gay. Specter dismisses these criticisms, arguing that Southwick is a highly respected judge with a unanimous rating from the American Bar Association. After months of wrangling, Specter this week won his battle to force the full Senate to give Southwick an up or down vote...
...Those areas are linked along a circuit," says Dr. Sanjaya Saxena, director of the OCD program at the University of California at San Diego. It's the job of that wiring to regulate your response to the stimuli around you, including how anxious you are in the face of threatening or frustrating things. "That circuit," says Saxena, "is abnormally active in people with...
...were a lot more concerned with the contents of our illicit “water” bottles than we were with the musical styling of Blink-182. By this token, I regularly made the trek to see some of the worst college-rock bills on the summer-touring circuit...
...women pummeling each other in a 24-ft.-wide (7.3 m) cage makes some people queasy, the girls are now trying to cash in on the MMA wave. "We're not hitting tennis balls. We're hitting people," says Gina Carano, a fighter in the upstart, male-dominated EliteXC circuit who draws more traffic to the tour's website than any male fighter does. "Isn't that more exciting...