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...It’s very important to have adequate intake to prevent [birth] defects and neural defects that have been linked to inadequate folic acid intake,” said Manson. “Be sure that you either have a balanced diet in order to get these vitamins and micronutrients or it’s important to take a multivitamin that will provide them...
...think that multivitamins are definitely not going to hurt anybody who’s trying to become pregnant,” Chavarro said in the press release. “They should be recommended—or at least folic acid should be recommended—to prevent neural tube defects. I think that as far as infertility is concerned, this is a good initial step, but it needs to be replicated in other studies.” The other investigators involved in the study were Stare professor and chair of the nutrition department Walter Willett, assistant professor of epidemiology...
...dark room at a South London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners, which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity, are used mainly to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized by researchers to see how it reacted to the TV pictures--specifically, whether she responded to ads differently at night than in the morning...
...dark room at a south London medical center, lying inside a loudly whirring Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (FMRI) scanner that mapped her brain as video images flickered before her eyes. Brain scanners - which use radio waves and a powerful magnetic field to trace oxygenated blood to areas of neural activity - are mainly used to study or diagnose brain diseases. But Phipp's brain was being scrutinized for decidedly nonmedical reasons. Researchers were monitoring how it reacted to the TV pictures; specifically, the study was designed to determine whether viewers respond to ads differently at night than in the morning...
...Neural blockade - control of the various "gateways" through which pain signals reach our brains, is next. There' s no doubt that pain is ultimately a mental phenomenon whose survival value involves some kind of negative re-enforcement; we learn not to hammer our thumbs by punishing experience. There are times when there' s more survival value in not feeling pain though, and at those times, even injured, we often don't have pain. Anyone who has seen an action movie knows we can take quite a beating yet be oblivious to pain. This is neural blockade at the highest level...