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• Why is scratching an itch so rewarding?

  15-06-2015 19:28
  Researchers may be closer to understanding why scratching evokes a rewarding and pleasurable sensation in patients with chronic itch. Using advanced fMRI, they looked at brain activity while chronic itch patients and healthy subjects scratched. They found areas of the brain involved in motor control and reward processing were more activated in chronic itch patients while they scratched. This may help explain the addictive scratching experienced by these patients.
  
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• Scientists grow multiple brain structures and make connections between them

  15-06-2015 18:52
  Human stem cells can be differentiated to produce other cell types, such as organ cells, skin cells, or brain cells. While organ cells, for example, can function in isolation, brain cells require synapses, or connectors, between cells and between regions of the brain. Researchers now report successfully growing multiple brain structures and forming connections between them in vitro, in a single culture vessel, for the first time.
  
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• Shed a tear, Tim Hunt: crying at work is a good idea | Hannah Ewens

  15-06-2015 16:15
  
  The persisting prejudice against crying on the job doesn’t fit in today’s office environmentI will never forget the first time I needed to cry at work. But crying is looked down upon in the workplace as oversensitive, immature and unprofessional – the most recent example of male disdain came this week, when Nobel laureate Tim Hunt suggested that female scientists can’t take criticism without crying. So I held in my distress, and it built until, unable to conceal it anymore, I ran to the
  
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• Self-awareness not unique to mankind

  15-06-2015 16:00
  Humans are unlikely to be the only animal capable of self-awareness, a new study has shown.
  
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• Unraveling the link between brain, lymphatic system

  15-06-2015 15:42
  A surprising finding that challenges current anatomy and histology textbook knowledge has been released by researchers: Lymphatic vessels are found in the central nervous system where they were not known to exist. Researchers discovered the meningeal linings of brain have a lymphatic vessel network that has direct connections to the systemic lymphatic network elsewhere in the body.
  
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• Are You Doing Too Much?

  15-06-2015 12:36 via counsellingresource.com
  
  It's possible to do too much in a relationship, to carry too much of the burden of responsibility and conscientiousness -- and thereby "enable" your partner's dysfunction.Tags: character disturbance, in practice, relationships
  
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• Fact-based thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment unshackles trailer

  15-06-2015 10:15
  
  The controversial psychological study from the 70s gets the big screen treatment as volunteer prisoners and guards go to battleIt was one of the most controversial psychological studies ever recorded and has already led to two feature films and a BBC reality series. Related: Sundance 2015 review – The Stanford Prison Experiment: notorious behaviour test becomes masterful filmContinue reading...
  
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• International Alzheimer's prevention study expands

  15-06-2015 06:15
  
  Study tests a drug that is used to control diabetes to see if it could prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• Minimize summer vacation stress

  15-06-2015 06:14
  
  A balance of structured and less structured time is important for kids to have during the summer.
  
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