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• Luck counts for little in a game of chess | Letters

  26-09-2016 20:23
  
  Prof Peter Ayton (Letters, 23 September) rightly points out that chess can be affected by chance factors, which is why I was careful to say that chess involves virtually no luck. However, the degree of luck involved, compared with that inherent in backgammon (which is also subject to the same variables he mentions), is likely to be modest. Indeed, if an intermediate player were to play a chess grandmaster, it would surely be a vanishingly small factor, very unlikely to affect the inevitable outc
  
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• The language of senses

  26-09-2016 17:51
  Sight, touch and hearing are our windows to the world: these sensory channels send a constant flow of information to the brain, which acts to sort out and integrate these signals, allowing us to perceive the world and interact with our environment. But how do these sensory pathways emerge during development?
  
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• Scientists track down possible new treatment for epilepsy

  26-09-2016 17:51
  Increasing the concentration of specific fats in the brain could suppress epileptic seizures, ground-breaking new research shows. On the basis of this discovery, scientists were able to completely suppress epileptic seizures in fruit flies.
  
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• Enzyme hyaluronidase shows promise as treatment for muscle stiffness caused by brain injury

  26-09-2016 16:57
  A naturally occurring enzyme called hyaluronidase may be an effective alternative treatment for spasticity, or muscle stiffness, a disabling condition in people who have had a stroke or other brain injury, researchers report.
  
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• Having a happy spouse could be good for your health

  26-09-2016 16:35
  New research finds that having a happy spouse may be related to better health, at least among middle-aged and older adults.
  
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• Stereotactic radiosurgery decreases rate of post-operative local recurrence for brain metastases

  26-09-2016 16:06
  Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for cancer patients who receive the treatment for brain metastases decreases the likelihood of local recurrence but shows no positive difference in terms of overall survival (OS) or distant brain metastases (DBMs) rates, when compared to observation alone following surgical resection of brain metastases, according to research.
  
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• What happens when the brain is artificially stimulated?

  26-09-2016 16:04
  Stimulating the brain via electricity or other means may help ease symptoms of various neurological and psychiatric disorders, with the method already used to treat conditions from epilepsy to depression. But what really happens when doctors zap the brain?
  
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• Learning Failures and Arrested Character Development

  26-09-2016 12:54 via counsellingresource.com
  
  When people hurt others, it may be tempting to chalk the behavior up to the scars of some past traumatic events in their own lives. But this is far from always the case. Tags: book, character disturbance, in practice, relationships, responsibility
  
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• With robots, is a life without work one we'd want to live?

  26-09-2016 09:21
  
  Being gainfully employed is about more than money. We need to consider what will give our lives purpose and connection in the age of automation
  Tell us how Australia can prepare for the fourth industrial revolution – open threadWhen Aristotle described “the complete happiness of man”, he thought it would include, among other things, “self-sufficiency, leisureliness and unweariedness”. Unfortunately the philosopher concluded that “such a life would be too high
  
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• Some insurers thwart efforts to use medication treatment for addiction

  26-09-2016 03:29 via usatoday.com
  
  Addiction doctors say insurance barriers to medication that can save lives are instead putting them at risk for death.
  
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