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...what life means beyond getting high. ACT has also been used to help chronic-pain patients get back to their jobs faster. But perhaps the most noteworthy finding was that 27 institutionalized South African epileptics who had just nine hours of ACT in 2004 experienced significantly fewer and shorter seizures than those in a placebo treatment in which the therapist offered a supportive ear. Even Hayes, who is not usually overburdened with modesty, was startled by that finding. He could only hypothesize about why ACT might reduce seizures: "You teach people to walk right up to the moment they seize...
...agree with your report "How to Tune Up Your Brain" [Jan. 23]. One of your articles made the case that communication technology is a key factor in overstimulation and distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as if everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from pointless...
Much the same happened to military-funded research. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, the successor agency to ARPA) halved its funding of academic information-technology research from 2001 to 2004. "They say that because we're in a war, we need to have a shorter-term focus," laments Patterson. "But during Vietnam," he says, DARPA-funded researchers "laid the technology, the underlying vocabulary, of the Internet. They were doing fundamental, important, long-term research...
...losing to the Bulldogs by 14 in New Haven a week earlier.Brown is an extremely young team, something that has been exacerbated as of late due to tri-captain Luke Ruscoe’s battle with an injured ankle. Without Ruscoe, the Bears are short on talent and even shorter on poise. That’s a disastrous combination when you’re heading into one of the toughest home environments in the Ivy League.Penn (10-6, 2-0) takes this one handily.YALE AT PRINCETONEveryone is waiting for the Tigers (3-12, 1-1) to turn it around. Everyone...
...agree with your report "How To Tune Up Your Brain" [Jan. 16]. One of your articles made the case that communication technology today is a key factor in overstimulation and distraction. The faster people can do things, such as reading an e-mail or sending a text message, the shorter their attention span becomes. It seems as though everyone has attention-deficit disorder. Our society is so invested in getting things done fast that we have lost the skill of patiently sitting still and focusing. It's as if people need to be diverted. If there were fewer distractions from...