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Your Brain is Beautiful (And Your Neurons Are Particularly Attractive)
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May07

Your Brain is Beauti...

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Posted By Barry Ritholtz In Science,Weekend | From the NYT, these electron microscopy photos are strangely beautiful: The last few decades have produced an explosion of new techniques for probing the blobby, unprepossessing brain in search of the thinking, feeling, suffering, scheming...

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‘Everyone’s not doing it’ message offers new hope for preventive education
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Jan18

‘Everyone’s not doing it’ messag...

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Science is littered with shining new discoveries which became somewhat tarnished as accumulating data forced a reappraisal. In substance misuse, ‘normative education’ retains some of its shine, but what seemed the great hope for school- and college-based prevention now seems a tactic of limited application and with inconsistent impacts. The approach relies on the common overestimation by pupils and students of how many of their peers use substances and how much they use and/or (less commonly) overestimation of the acceptability of substance use among their peers. Corrective survey data is expected to reduce substance use because...

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Straight Up: How to Try Mindfulness Meditation
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  • Meditation
Jan03

Straight Up: How to Try Mindfulness Meditation

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Mindfulness Meditation What is Mindfulness Meditation? Mindfulness is a type of meditation that essentially involves focusing on your mind on the present. To be mindful is to be aware of your thoughts and actions in the present, without judging yourself. Research suggests that mindfulness meditation may improve mood, decrease stress, and boost immune function.   1. Find a quiet and comfortable place. Sit in a chair or on the floor with your head, neck and back straight but not stiff. 2. Try to put aside all thoughts of the past and the future and stay in the present. 3. Become aware of your breathing, focusing on the sensation...

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Antioxidant May Prevent Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease
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May04

Antioxidant May Prev...

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An antioxidant may prevent damage to the liver caused by excessive alcohol, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. The findings, published online April 21, 2011, in the journal Hepatology, may point the way to treatments to reverse steatosis, or fatty deposits...

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methamphetamine exposure
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  • Amphetamine
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  • Meth
  • The Brain And Addiction
Apr21

methamphetamine expo...

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A new study in fruit flies offers a broad view of the potent and sometimes devastating molecular events that occur throughout the body as a result of methamphetamine exposure

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