Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Today the industry as a whole is feverishly developing silver bullets for boomers that, like Viagra, seek to rewrite the physical and mental decline genetically programmed into each of us. Among the latest life-style-enhancing remedies...
...much gaming can, it seems, have drastic consequences. However, Matthew G. Withers '01 said gaming doesn't necessarily make people slackers at work. Gaming, he insisted, is about honing interaction skills and quick mental reflexes that can generally be used to great advantage...
...specifically mentioned acupuncture, massage and special diets as techniques designed to help patients' mental, spiritual and physical health...
...that, despite all of Hamer's work, the links between these genes and these particular personality traits do not, in fact, exist. There is, however, another, more tantalizing possibility. Consider the genes that give tomatoes their flavor, suggests Hamer's colleague Dr. Dennis Murphy of the National Institute of Mental Health. Even a simple trait like acidity is controlled not by a single gene but by as many as 30 that operate in concert. In the same way, he speculates, many genes are involved in setting up temperamental traits and psychological vulnerabilities; each gene contributes just a little...
MCAT observers also noted the probable mental effect of a faulty test on students, given the stressful nature of the exam...