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Alcohol may Help You to Be Cool

...ability to pay attention, so we misbehave once our attention is narrowed to the most salient, attention-grabbin... and decrease aggression, depending on wheres ones attention is focused. The psychologists contemplate that working memory is crucial not only to barroom behavio...

Converting Left-hander to Right-hander also Changes the Brain

... now is, 'do converts suffer because of this extra attention that they exert?'" Nature magazine quoted Stefan Kloppel of University College London, who led the study, as saying. While writing, the left hand of a person is generally controlled by the right side of the brain, and vice-versa. However, in the c...

Chain Smokers Prepared to Lessen Their Daily Cigs Rather Than Quitting

...f Cochrane Researchers could find that very little attention has been given to this alternative of cutting down the number of cigarettes. The main effort in therapies aimed at smokers has been at helping them to stop smoking completely. But, little thought has been given to the idea of helping them reduce th...

Winona Ryders Arrest Got Her Rid of Drug Dependence

...ut her arrest, an incident that got a lot of media attention across the world. Ryder revealed that just befo... she was shocked by the hype of her arrest. "The attention was what was embarrassing," she said. The 35-year-old actress, who has returned to work with thre...

Briton Set for Pacific Solo Odyssey to Highlight Warming

...first woman to row solo across the Pacific to draw attention to oceanic pollution. "I want to shock people out of their complacency," said Savage. "We humans have a real inability to see past the immediate." She will be steering far south of the North Pacific Gyre, sometimes called the Great Pacific Garbag...

Sienna Sizzles in Wet T-shirt to Spread Global Warming Awareness

...nsisted that if everyone does something to attract attention for global warming, it would prevent us from the e...ying. This was not the only bizarre way to catch attention for charity, for actress Hilary Swank is reportedly set to go bald and donate her hair for a wig for...

Pediatric Use of ADHD Drug may Affect Developing Brain

... which is one of the most prescribed drugs for the attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), by young children may cause long-term changes in the developing brains, according to a study of mice by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. "The changes we saw in the brains of treat...

Binge Drinking on College Campuses is a Matter of Fear, Not Freedom

...Introduce people. "It all boils down to taking the attention off of yourself and getting involved in the lives of others," Carducci said. » Parents, think "inoculation." Parents shouldn't be afraid of talking to their children about limited alcohol consumption and about the anxiety and fear they could e...

Interactions Between Food and Drugs Could Lower Drug Costs

...ologists Mark Ratain, MD, and Ezra Cohen, MD, call attention to the flip side of recent studies showing how certain foods can alter absorption or delay breakdown of precisely targeted anti-cancer drugs. Instead of seeing such studies as highlighting a dosing problem, Ratain and Cohen argue that results like...

Solving Puzzles Could Boost Brain Power

...oural and imaging data support our hypothesis that attention training can reduce multi-sensory integration. "This suggests that attention training is a potential way to improve sensory processing by reducing older adults' susceptibility t...

Hot Tips for Keeping Your PC Cool in Summer

...p your PC cool enough in the summertime. By paying attention to how much heat-stress your PC may be under, you'...rsonal computers before them. But by paying proper attention to cooling, you can help to ensure years of trouble-free service from your PC....

Diabetic Womens Death Rate Shows No Decline

.... "Clearly, women with diabetes deserve much more attention than they receive," endocrinologist Ronald Goldberg of the Diabetes Research Institute in Miami says. "To some degree, this is an obstacle to aggressive therapy, because physicians have traditionally thought of pre-menopausal women as at lower risk" ...

Abbot Sues French AIDS Group

...plans to use media coverage of the lawsuit to draw attention to Abbott's actions in Thailand. "We're going to use the forum [Abbott is] offering us to talk about Thailand again and the horrible consequences their decision has had there." According to Act up-Paris spokes person. If the court rules against Act-...

Breathalyzer Tests for Cops Involved in Shootings

...en holding weekly rallies and other events to draw attention to the Bell shooting case. In March, Isnora and another detective, Michael Oliver, were indicted on manslaughter charges. A third, Marc Cooper, was charged with a misdemeanor for a bullet that struck an elevated train station across the street from...

Huge Rise in AIDS Cases Among Nepal Housewives

...du, June 20 (IANS) While the Nepalese government's attention is focused on preventing the spread of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) among migrant labourers, intravenous drug users and sex workers, housewives have become one of the most vulnerable groups in the country with the rate of infection ris...

Kashmir University Stops Construction to Save Chinar Trees

...had launched an aggressive campaign to draw public attention to the possibility of chinar trees being felled to make way for the construction. "I have passed orders so that no law is violated in this regard," Qureshi told IANS. The lofty chinar tree, which is an icon of the rich Kashmiri heritage, is prote...

Smoking Hampers Healing of the Ligament

...njury, so in this study the researchers paid close attention to cell density, biomechanical function and gene expression during the first week after MCL repair. In mice exposed to cigarette smoke, cell density was lower and type I collagen gene expression was reduced. "Our studies also have shown a decreased...

Researchers Have Found the Role of Protein in Accelerating Breast Cancer Progression

... molecular pathogenesis of breast cancer and focus attention on PTN and its signalling pathway as possible targets for new cancer therapies. The study also found that the expression of pleiotrophin activated surrounding cells to remodel the tumour microenvironment, induced tumour angiogenesis, and increased t...

Cigarette Smoking Delays Ligament Healing

...njury, so in this study the researchers paid close attention to cell density, biomechanical function and gene expression during the first week after MCL repair. In mice exposed to cigarette smoke, cell density was lower and type I collagen gene expression was reduced. "Our studies also have shown a decreased...

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...y, agreed. He praised the AMA council for bringing attention to the problem, but said excessive video-game playing could be a symptom for other things, such as depression or social anxieties that already have their own diagnoses. For 160 years, the AMA has made recommendations on the nation's health that are ...

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(Date:12/3/2009)Our ability to learn new information and adapt to changes in our daily environment, as well as to retain lifelong memories, appears to lie in the minute junctions where nerve cells communicate, accord
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