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• Safer stem cell-derived therapy for brain radiation recovery

  07-04-2016 21:06
  While stem cells have shown promise for treating brain regions damaged by cancer radiation treatments, researchers have found that microscopic vesicles isolated from these cells provide similar benefits without some of the risks associated with stem cells.
  
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• Predicting a person's distinct brain connectivity

  07-04-2016 21:03
  Based on functional magnetic resonance imaging of a person's brain when that individual is resting, a new model reported in this study is able to predict how that individual's brain will look during a range of active tasks.
  
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• Gray matter abnormality predicts neurodevelopmental problems in smaller premature babies

  07-04-2016 17:59
  A new study has explored a more objective system for scoring MRIs -- and in the process found that an often unreported abnormality of the brain's gray matter can indicate future impairment.
  
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• Key advance: Neuroscientists get a new look into how we read

  07-04-2016 17:18
  Neuroscientists have come up with a way to observe brain activity during natural reading. It's the first time researchers have been able to study the brain while reading actual texts, instead of individual words, and it's already helping settle some ideas about just how we read.
  
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• Hydromorphone vs. diacetylmorphine for long-term opioid addiction

  07-04-2016 17:00
  
  In most analyses, injectable hydromorphone hydrochloride was not worse than diacetylmorphine hydrochloride (pharmaceutical heroin) to treat long-term severe opioid dependence and that could provide...
  
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• Can you trust an app with your mental health? | Jean Hannah Edelstein

  07-04-2016 16:30
  
  We’re used to technology offering us fixes for life’s problems. But the growth in apps to ward off mental illness hides a gaping hole in access to treatmentI’m writing this piece as I sit on a sofa that I purchased through an app, having come home late from work via a car that I summoned with a single tap. After eating soup that I ordered from Seamless, I took my rescue dog, who I adopted via Petfinder, for a walk. While we paced the streets, I listened on my phone to a podcast
  
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• The inequality of happiness

  07-04-2016 15:43 via theatlantic.com
  
  The well-being gap is widening in most countries—but what does that mean?
  
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• Walk, jog or dance: It’s all good for the aging brain

  07-04-2016 15:42 via well.blogs.nytimes.com
  New evidence that physical activity can forestall the mental decline in aging brains.
  
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• The surprisingly easy way to reduce your anxiety

  07-04-2016 15:40 via washingtonpost.com
  
  Acts of kindness, already shown by researchers to increase a person's happiness, might also help alleviate social anxiety.
  
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• Brain Over Brawn: A Key Factor in Attractiveness

  07-04-2016 10:06 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: MSNBC - Health NewsWe're attracted to people whose emotions we can easily understand—and that may be due in part to matching neural circuitry, according to a new study.
  
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• Scientists Seek Crowdfunding to Test "Chemical Castration" of Pedophiles

  07-04-2016 10:03 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  Source: Yahoo News - ScienceResearchers from Sweden are seeking crowdfunding to test a type of "chemical castration" in men who report having paedophilic thoughts and fantasies. The team from Sweden's Karolinska Institute want to see whether a drug called degarelix - a hormone therapy that blocks brain signals which stimulate the testicles to produce testosterone - reduces the men's sexual urges. While not all people with paedophilia molest children, child sexual abuse is...
  
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• Afghanistan's Test of Manhood: Polo with a Carcass

  07-04-2016 10:01 via feeds.socialpsychology.org
  
  Source: Yahoo News - Top HeadlinesWith their whips cracking neighing horses, an unruly scrum of riders battled in a muddy field for the headless carcass of a calf -- this is the Afghan sport of buzkashi. Passion, raw aggression, horsemanship and a fierce competitive instinct were on display in country's biggest annual tournament held in northern Mazar-i-Sharif city, set against a backdrop of the snow-peaked Hindu Kush mountains to celebrate the Persian New Year.
  
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• What's the world's loneliest city?

  07-04-2016 09:00
  
  In Tokyo, you can rent a cuddle. Loneliness is a health issue in Manchester. And perhaps nobody is as isolated as a migrant worker in Shenzhen. But can we really know what makes a city lonely?“New York has a trip-hammer vitality which drives you insane with restlessness, if you have no inner stabiliser,” wrote Henry Miller after moving back to the city following almost a decade in Paris. It could be expected that the Brooklyn-born novelist would have been happy to return, yet somethi
  
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• Risk allele for side effects induced by Clozapine identified

  07-04-2016 09:00
  
  Clozapine (CLZ) is a "gold standard" drug for managing treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS), who do not respond adequately to first-line antipsychotics.
  
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• Scientists seek crowdfunding for paedophilia drug trial

  07-04-2016 01:00
  
  Swedish researchers are using a British funding platform to finance trials of a controversial drug therapy, which they hope will reduce child sexual abuseSwedish scientists want research funds to test what they see as preventive treatment for potential paedophiles. They plan to use a British crowdfunding website to finance full-scale scientific trials of a drug treatment that could, they hope, reduce the likelihood of child sexual abuse.The volunteers in the trial would be 60 Swedish men who hav
  
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