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A stroke of luck: Five ways to beat a stroke
By: William Atkins

A team of Massachusetts researchers found five healthy ways to cut the risk of strokes. Follow all five of these healthy lifestyle factors and you could reduce your chance of a stroke by up to 80%.


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CDC study: 0.84% of U.S. adults have active epilepsy
By: William Atkins

A 2005 survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), released in August 2008, states that 0.84% of the U.S. adult population has active epilepsy—and about 33% of these people are not getting adequate treatment for their condition.


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Obsessive-compulsive disorder now seen with brain scan
By: William Atkins

British researchers at Cambridge University have used brain scans, for the first time, to see differences in the brains of OCD patients when compared to the brains of people without the psychological brain disorder. Such brain scans could one day help to earlier and more accurately diagnosis obsessive-compulsive disorder in humans.


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Be active and sleep well for a better memory
By: William Atkins

Two unique studies, one from Australia and the other from Switzerland, have researched how the brain works while sleeping and awake. The conclusions are: get a good night’s sleep and be mentally active while awake, and you'll reduce the risk of memory diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s.


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Omega-3 doubly good for female brain power, but omega-6 makes girls dimmer
By: William Atkins

Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fish oil, are twice as effective in improving test scores for girls as boys, U.S. researchers have found. While this appears to confirm the theory that fish is brain food, the researchers also found that omega-6, found primarily in rapeseed, sunflower, palm, and soy oils, diminishes the power of the brain.


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Science shows some people can't get over loss of loved ones
By: William Atkins

In what scientists call “complicated grief,” a UCLA study shows through brain scans that some women have an inability to resume a normal life after the death of a loved one.


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Scans show biology may determine gay/straight brain
By: William Atkins

According to a new Swedish study, some physical characteristics within the brains of homosexual people are also found in the brains of heterosexual people of the opposite sex.


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Brains of blind people store visual information
By: William Atkins

According to a California/Washington study, the brains of people, who have regained their vision, are able to regain at least some of their original ability to process visual information, even after years of blindness.

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Brain on overload during multitasking while driving
By: William Atkins

A Carnegie Mellon University study shows that multitasking (especially cell phone use) while driving negatively affects the performing of all the tasks but especially degrades the ability to drive.


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Making mistakes at work? Maybe you have a boring job!
By: William Atkins

An international team of scientists has found, based on brain activity, that people with jobs involving monotonous duties and a lot of repetition have a greater risk of making mistakes. Could that be you?


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Early history of depression linked to Alzheimer’s later in life
By: William Atkins

A study performed in the Netherlands reports that people with a history of depression before the age of sixty years had a four-time increased risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease later in life.


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The portable oxygen generator – not a load of hot air
By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt

A medical gadget called the Inogen ONE is a “breakthrough” portable oxygen generator that concentrates oxygen, doing away with cumbersome liquid oxygen tanks and restoring quality of life to the ultimate form of organic technology: human beings.


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First brain imaging study of emotion is “disgusting”
By: William Atkins

Stanford University researchers have performed the first imaging study of the brain with respect to two coping methods for the regulation of human emotion. They used scenes of “surgical procedures, vomiting and animal slaughter” to induce disgust. And, it worked!         
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Mind readers have competition from California scientists
By: William Atkins

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are using computerized brain scans to “reconstruct a picture of a person’s visual experience”—that is, a rudimentary ability to read minds.           
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