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...little kids. My own awareness that something was wrong with me was also very, very early. I was aware that I was pretty wild, that I couldn't calm myself, that I had dramatic shifts in moods and thought patterns. I always felt a little crazy. As I got older, I started having real problems in school. I was getting in trouble a lot. I was developing an eating disorder and some substance abuse problems. It's a lifetime of feeling like you're out of control, which is very much the nature of a mood disorder like bipolar...
...possibilities are - virtually - endless. Inhabit buffed-up versions of yourself to lose weight, cuter versions of yourself to gain confidence, or older versions to start putting money away for the future (that last one is being studied at Stanford now). "The most stunning part is how subtle the manipulations are and how difficult they are to detect," says Bailenson, "but how much it affects real life later...
...only did the CBV profile of the human exercisers mirror that of the mice, but the people who exercised more did better on a slew of memory tests. Other evidence backs this up. In a study of "previously sedentary" older subjects by psychologist Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois and others at Israel's Bar-Ilan University, investigators found that those who engaged in aerobic exercise did better cognitively than those who stretched and toned but never got their heart rates pumping. What's more, subsequent imaging showed that aerobic exercise "increased brain volume in regions associated with...
...studies show that rising glucose levels in turn disrupt the function of the dentate gyrus. That doesn't draw a straight and conclusive line between waistline and memory, but it does suggest one. "It's possible," Small says, "that blood glucose, which tends to drift upward as we get older, is one of the main contributors to age-related memory decline...
...mail address from a combination of the individual’s first and last names. And students with popular last names such as “Chen” or “Smith” will often have numbers attached to their addresses. FAS runs on an older UNIX-based legacy system, which not only encompasses e-mail accounts, but also Webspace and storage space for files. Kroll said that Harvard’s e-mail system dates from the 1980s, which currently confines usernames to the technological restrictions from two decades ago. Usernames are limited to eight characters...