Consciousness lost and consciousness regained follow different paths
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:17:37 -0800 (PST)
Two different neural pathways regulate loss and regain of
consciousness during
general anesthesia
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have
answered
long-running questions about the way that anesthetics act on the body,
by
showing that the cellular pathway for emerging from anesthesia is
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Amalgam fillings don't affect children's brain development, says
study
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:09:44 -0800 (PST)
Amalgam fillings don't affect children's brain development, says study
Dental amalgam tooth fillings do not adversely affect children's brain
development and neurological status, researchers report in the
February issue of
The Journal of the American Dental Association.
The authors of the report-members of a ...
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Five for fighting-raising money for Autism
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:18:32 -0800 (PST)
A quick video link that will generate money for a good cause just by
viewing...
The band, Five for Fighting, is generously donating $0.40 to Autism
Speaks for *each time* the video is viewed. The funding goes toward
research studies to help find a cure. When you have a moment, please
visit the link below ...
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Rejecting Christianity, Becoming Free Forever and Hope for the Future
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:49:04 -0800 (PST)
I struggled for a long time in my younger years trying to
understand Christianity, the basic doctrines, the core beliefs,
the philosophies, the essence and contradictions in Old versus
New Testament, the behavior of warrior Christian nations,
often wreaking havoc in non-Christian countries (and now again
conducti ...
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Call for Paper: Globalization Issue
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:36:44 -0800 (PST)
CALL FOR PAPER
Understanding Globalization: Theories, Challenges and
Impacts
The next issue of the International Journal of Social
Inquiry will focus on understanding Globalization and
on the complex debates surrounding this term. The
editors welcome papers that bring new knowledge to
this debate and excava ...
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Anthropomorphism and loneliness
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:30:13 -0800 (PST)
People not always needed to alleviate loneliness
New research at the University of Chicago finds evidence for a clever
way that people manage to alleviate the pain of loneliness: They
create people in their surroundings to keep them company.
?Biological reproduction is not a very efficient way to alleviate
on ...
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The Lobotomist
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:21:10 -0800 (PST)
The Lobotomist: A review
A new PBS documentary tells the troubled story of a doctor who
performed nearly 3,000 lobotomies
First, physician Walter Freeman would peel open the patient's eyelid
and insert an ice pick between the eyeball and the lid. He would tap
the ice pick with a surgical hammer - or even a ca ...
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Morgellons - strange new disease?
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:15:35 -0800 (PST)
U.S. to Study Bizarre Medical Condition
(AP) -- It sounds like a freakish ailment from a horror movie: Sores
erupt on your skin, mysterious threads pop out of them, and you feel
like tiny bugs are crawling all over you.
Some experts believe it's a psychiatric phenomenon, yet hundreds of
people say it's a true ...
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Birth complications and Schizophrenia
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:11:13 -0800 (PST)
Birth complications add schizophrenia risk
U.S. scientists have identified four genes that interact with serious
obstetric complications to increase the risk for schizophrenia.
National Institute of Mental Health researchers in Bethesda, Md.,
examined 13 genes believed to play a role in the development of
sch ...
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Music therapy may help depression
Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:08:59 -0800 (PST)
Music therapy may offer hope for people with depression
A therapist may be able to use music to help some patients fight
depression and improve, restore and maintain their health, states a
Systematic Review from The Cochrane Library.
About 121 million people world-wide are believed to suffer from
depression. ...
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