"Scientists have detected glimmers of awareness in some vegetative brain-injury patients and have even communicated with one of them – findings that push the boundaries of how to assess and care for such people."
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"Researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that when people were asked to engage in a bit of mental time travel, and to recall past events or imagine future ones, participants’ bodies subliminally acted out the metaphors embedded in how we commonly conceptualized the flow of time."
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"Studies suggest that the popular drugs are no more effective than a placebo. In fact, they may be worse."
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"A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era."
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"Happiness coaching is seeping into the workplace. A growing number of employers, including UBS, American Express, KPMG and the law firm Goodwin Procter, have hired trainers who draw on psychological research, ancient religious traditions or both to inspire workers to take a more positive attitude—or at least a neutral one. Happiness-at-work coaching is the theme of a crop of new business books and a growing number of MBA-school courses."
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"There are numerous psychological subfields that, to one degree or another, look at the interplay between human beings and their natural environment. But ecopsychology embraces a more revolutionary paradigm: just as Freud believed that neuroses were the consequences of dismissing our deep-rooted sexual and aggressive instincts, ecopsychologists believe that grief, despair and anxiety are the consequences of dismissing equally deep-rooted ecological instincts."
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"Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved cognitive function a year later, scoring higher on tests of the brain processes responsible for planning and executing tasks, a new study has found."
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"Museum director Gary Vikan says that a gallery is the perfect setting for 'Beauty and the Brain,' which opened this weekend and which is equal parts art exhibit and science experiment. The pioneering collaboration between the Walters and the Johns Hopkins University aims to find out whether humans are hard-wired to find some shapes and forms inherently more pleasing than others."
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"A new study from Australia suggests that couch potatoes live shorter lives."
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"We tend to think of hypochondria as a kind of selfishness. The hypochondriac remains a disreputable figure, solipsistic and even immune to the real suffering of others. But psychologists tell us that hypochondria is often also part of a group or family dynamic; the patient acts out the expectations of others who somehow need him or her to be sick."
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"When you refrain from scarfing down unhealthy foods or hold back on that extra drink, others may deserve some of the credit. Self-control is contagious, a new study suggests."
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"Doctors have long hoped to discover a 'morning-after pill' to blunt the often disabling emotional fallout from traumatic experiences. Now it appears that they have had one on hand all along: morphine."
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"We know exercise has a positive effect on the body, but more and more evidence shows that regular exercise may be good for the mind too."
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"Not surprisingly, thinking about a single noun like 'truck' or 'butterfly' sparked activity in many different places in the brain. That's just more evidence that the brain is a far-flung network of regions and specialized cells that exchange information and coordinate efforts in even the simplest task."
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"In fact, scientists are not sure how the brain tracks time. One theory holds that it has a cluster of cells specialized to count off intervals of time; another that a wide array of neural processes act as an internal clock."
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