Tag: brain
group name: health
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June 10, 2008 11:12 AM EDT --
Something came up on one of the morning shows yesterday that intrigued me. I'd like to grow older like my Mom and several octogenarians here at Gather - . . .
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June 26, 2007 01:28 PM EDT --
Please come back, Wednesday, June 27th at 1pm ET for a Live Chat with Katrina Firlik, Author of "Another Day in the Frontal Lobe"!
If you can’t make the live event, . . .
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June 01, 2009 12:10 AM EDT --
Right now, there is a new book called A Younger Thinner You . The book claims that we can change our bodies metabolism, weight, depression, anxiety and even diseases by altering . . .
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November 03, 2008 09:32 AM EST --
For the past two decades, I've been developing advanced technologies to help us understand how the brain functions and changes over time. My group at UCLA invented a brain scanning technique that . . .
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October 05, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
I am writing this for my mom Phyllis P., as I can type much faster than her... My mom joined here because she needs friends, people to talk to and something to do. Let me tell you about her. . . .
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November 10, 2008 01:46 PM EST --
Laptops, PDAs, iPods, smart phones and other technological gadgets seem to be taking over our purses and pockets with no end in sight. But could they be altering our families and affecting the way we . . .
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July 16, 2007 10:51 AM EDT --
Psychotherapists know that psychiatric disorders always involve activity in the brain. In this era of psychopharmacology, brain imaging, and therapeutic electrical and magnetic stimulation of the brain, . . .
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October 20, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
Will be undergong brain surgery this Tuesday. He has a growth on his brain stem. Pray for him, please.
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October 20, 2006 06:21 AM EDT --
I've written before here on the skull fracture I had in 1993, an injury that took 10 years to resolve. Thankfully, it did heal and I am back to health, but those 10 years seemed . . .
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April 21, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
You've probably heard the term "internal clock" and know it has something to do with how you feel at different times of the day. But do you know what brain areas control your internal clock? . . .
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July 10, 2009 11:31 AM EDT --
Alzheimer's disease is a troubling disorder which causes the brain and neurons to degenerate over time. It's unfortunate as the disorder, also known as "dementia", becomes progressively worse, . . .
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February 10, 2007 07:47 PM EST --
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
Since Mencken's time medical science . . .
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March 08, 2008 09:51 AM EST --
It is known that sleep is very important for health and essential for surviving. Sleep deprivation leads to death within three weeks. However the purpose of sleep still is not clearly understood. Two . . .
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March 08, 2008 09:57 AM EST --
Introduction
A human body energy balance depends on the amount of consumed food and energy expenditure. Amount of food we consume depends on one's appetite and activity of the rewarding system. . . .
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November 17, 2008 05:34 PM EST --
In the past, when we thought of addiction, we usually associated it with alcoholism or drug abuse. But anyone who has teenagers or even a Blackberry PDA, knows that the access, anonymity, and constant . . .
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February 18, 2007 05:51 PM EST --
A group of Canadian researchers have discovered a part of the brain which, when stimulated by the neurotransmitter dopamine, triggers a rise in calcium in the brain. Neurotransmitters, which include . . .
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December 01, 2008 10:30 AM EST --
Imagine being in the midst of responding to an email while talking on the phone and faxing your client, when momentarily you forget who you’re writing, talking and faxing to? The rapid pace of information . . .
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July 17, 2008 10:02 AM EDT --
Introduction
Many medical conditions can mimic schizophrenia including amphetamine psychosis, methamphetamine intoxication, mescaline intoxication, hypoglycemia, acute intermittent porphyria, . . .
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February 17, 2007 01:37 AM EST --
If anxiety freezes me over, till I hunker down and try to keep warm, depression is more like a wall. I smack into it and it stops me, bouncing me back in whatever direction I was going.
Smacking . . .
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March 01, 2007 12:44 PM EST --
Follow these tips to help keep your brain-and your body-vibrant and healthy throughout your life...
Do:
Exercise your body regularly and get involved in physically active leisure pursuits
Keep your . . .
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