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• Role of spleen in prolonged anxiety after stress

  13-11-2016 21:47
  Scientists are uncovering clues to what might be unfolding in the relationship between the brain and immune system in those who suffer from long-term repercussions of stress. New research details those connections, specifically that an abundance of white blood cells in the spleen could be sending messages to the brain that result in behavioral changes long after mice experience repeated stress.
  
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• A Day in the Life of the Brain review – rethink required

  13-11-2016 13:00
  
  Susan Greenfield’s attempt to explain the latest research into consciousness has an interesting framing device, but that’s where the clarity endsYou are a male office worker. Your day begins with the buzz of the alarm, and ends uneventfully back in bed. During the day, you interact with characters in your life, including your son Jack, and Bobo the border collie, who is so insistent on a walk first thing in the morning, that – heaven forfend – you skip coffee. The day pro
  
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• What your choice of art says about your personality – Quiz

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  Do you prefer abstract or figurative paintings? The answer is likely to correlate with other preferences in your lifeWhat do your preferences in art tell us about your personality? To find out, simply choose which of these two pictures you prefer… Continue reading...
  
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• The rainbow of religious belief: extremist thinking doesn’t work

  13-11-2016 07:00
  
  There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality
  ‘SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.’ That slogan was posted on London buses in 2012. It was aimed at some Christian groups who understood human sexuality not as a spectrum of many shades but as a stark choice between right and wrong, the permitted and the forbidden.Many of us are prone to this kind of binary reductionism, but it is amplified and exaggerated by religion, because its favourite discours
  
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