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In what could be seen as a major breakthrough, rat brain cells are being used to control a robot that could provide great insights into degenerative diseases such as Alzhiemer’s. The robot uses about 300,000 rat neurons form the blob, which is...
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First of all, forget Rusty Limburger. The man is a moron and I will not dignify him by commenting on his asinine proclamations in this blog!
Second, just so we all...
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Severe depression may silently break a seemingly healthy woman’s heart.
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A Depression doesn’t have to be Great _ bread lines, rampant unemployment, a wipeout in the stock market. The economy can sink into a milder depression, the kind...
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India is being attacked from all sides and internally…something very sinister seems to be going on…
It is a fact that right from the birth of our nation, we have...
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If the economy looks like it’s going downhill now, just wait.
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Barack Obama and his congressional allies are gambling that the largest public spending program since World War II and a new round of tax cuts will pry the economy from...
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Franklin Roosevelt swept into Washington in the threadbare depths of the Depression, told the nation it would revive, and got to work.
made popular Jan 16 2009
I feel it is like a dreadful disease “DEPRESSION”, the word means a lot, especially at such times when the world is going through the Global Recession and...
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Older people who are depressed are much more likely to develop a dangerous type of internal body fat _ the kind that can lead to diabetes and heart disease _ than...
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Congress was decidedly unimpressed by the three domestic auto makers’ plea for a bailout last week and responded by asking them to do the impossible: conjure up...
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Depression is a growing silent killer in people around the globe. Humans, owing to the pace and subjectivity toward life, have been drowning deeper into the burrows of...
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Started with a meager print run more than a decade ago, alternative country magazine No Depression helped launch the careers of Ryan Adams and Wilco. As it picked up...
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I hear the cries. I keep running, searching, but I can’t find him. Again, the belt cracks. I run faster, aimlessly, I must find this child. I’m about to...
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The words have been repeated over and over: This is the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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When did we stop being happy? was it when we grew up? was it when we realized that our parents don’t love us for who we are? Or perhaps it was when we grew a...
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The government has approved the first noninvasive brain stimulator to treat depression _ a device that beams magnetic pulses through the skull.
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The global financial meltdown has hit not only pockets. Greater numbers of people are suffering from insomnia, anxiety and depression and psychiatrists say suicide...
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The U.S. plan to ease the credit crisis by investing in banks retraces steps taken during the Depression by an agency that accomplished its mission _ but became a...
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Although Alzheimer’s disease appears in old age but early signs of possibility of development of dementia in the future might appear in the middle age. According to...
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Paedophilia may be a result of faulty brain wiring according to a new research. The study published in the Journal of Psychiatry Research found that convicted...
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While studying brains of rats, researchers of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have discovered the protein associated with learning and...
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The belief that the brain was shut from the actions of the immune system and shielded from the external natural forces has been proved a myth. Thanks to the...
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Neuroscience, from the past many years, had tried to understand the complexities of human brain and its working. They are often entangled in challenges posed by mood...
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Laziness with no depression may cause Parkinson’s disease. Lindsey Kirsch-Darrow of the University of Florida, the author of the study, said that apathy and...
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The combined technology of computer assisted tomography or CAT scans and positron emission tomography or PET scans may detect the cancer and other diseases easily....
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The researchers at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit may have found a link between Migraine and risk of depression. The report is published in the journal Neurology....
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Is your teen son or daughter suffering from epilepsy? Then be aware that they are much more prone to depression and other psychiatric problems! They often face a double...
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The question seems to be a bit confusing and a bit difficult, its hard to find a crystal clear answer to the age-old ‘real versus fake’ Christmas tree...
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Improbable as it may sound, Kevin Warwick’s robot has a real, living, biological brain. The project started when his team noticed that rat neurons spread on...
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