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• Why doctors may keep a patient awake for brain surgery

  03-02-2017 20:00
  An article gives a rare look at brain surgery with the patient alert and awake. It's not routine to keep patients awake, but in this case, a small section of the tumor was in the area of the brain for speech function.
  
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• Jekyll and Hyde cells: Their role in brain injury and disease revealed

  03-02-2017 19:55
  New research has shown how normally helpful brain cells can turn rogue and kill off other brain cells following injury or disease.
  
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• Brain Plasticity: How Adult-Born Neurons Get Wired-in

  03-02-2017 16:34
  Does the brain create additional synapses from the cortical neurons to the new granule cells, or do some cortical neurons transfer connections from mature granule cells to the new granule cells? Researchers have found that the connections are transferred, without adding to the number of synapses.
  
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• Empathetic people experience dogs' expressions more strongly

  03-02-2017 16:15
  A study explored how empathy and other psychological factors affect people's assessments of the facial images of dogs and humans.
  
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• Emoticons help gauge school happiness level in young children

  03-02-2017 16:15
  The How I Feel About My School questionnaire is available to download for free. It uses emoticon-style faces with options of happy, ok or sad. It asks children to rate how they feel in seven situations including on the way to school, in the classroom and in the playground. It is designed to help teachers and others to communicate with very young children on complex emotions.
  
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• 'Extinction therapy' could help smokers kick habit, study suggests

  03-02-2017 16:11
  
  Technique aims to help smokers ‘unlearn’ associations that drive addiction by exposing them to triggers, such as footage of people smokingIt sounds like torment for the smoker attempting to quit: handling packets of cigarettes and watching footage of people smoking, without being allowed to light up.However, scientists believe that lengthy exposure to environmental triggers for cravings could be precisely what smokers need to help them quit. The technique, known as extinction therapy
  
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• Wired for sound: Enraging noises caused by brain connection overdrive

  03-02-2017 14:51
  While many of us may find the sounds of chewing or breathing off-putting, for some they're unbearable -- and new research has shown their brains are going into overdrive.
  
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• 'Mirror game' test could secure early detection of schizophrenia, study shows

  03-02-2017 09:00
  
  Virtual reality could hold the key to unlocking an affordable, reliable and effective device to provide early diagnosis and management of schizophrenia.
  
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• Food insecurity: A pervasive and persistent threat to the developmental and psychosocial health of children

  03-02-2017 09:00
  
  Household food insecurity (FI) (without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food, even for a temporary period), is associated with children's behavioral, academic and...
  
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• Dopamine dressing – can you dress yourself happy?

  03-02-2017 07:01
  
  The fashion world has bought into the idea that wearing La La Land yellow and head-to-toe colour will act as an antidote to these dark days. Now here comes the science part …So-called dopamine dressing is everywhere this season. Based on the idea that wearing overtly fun clothes can help lift your mood in depressing times, it begs the question: can wearing “happy clothes” really make us more happy?The fashion industry is certainly trying to convince us that it can be done. The
  
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• The challenges of autism in small-town America

  03-02-2017 03:49 via theatlantic.com
  
  Lacking easy access to specialized care, some families are turning to video-conferencing for treatment.
  
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