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Fix Your Mood with Brain Food

Alison Rose Levy | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Brain Fog, Depression, Brain, Health, Mood Swings, Nutrition, Diet, Brain Fitness, Anxiety, Mood Disorder, Living News

A medical doctor, Hyman practices Functional Medicine, an integrative approach that aims to balance bodily biochemistry through the use of targeted nutrients.

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Eight Things Parents Can Do -- Immediately, Easily!

Robert Rose | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Thought, Emotions, Television, Listening, Art, Education, Brain, Children, Family Values, Singing, Schools, Educational Toys, Music, Love, Parents, Family, Living News

Some intellectuals tend to think they can detach themselves from their emotions and think purely and more clearly. Dangerous.

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Shopping and Overeating

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Shopaholic, Weight Loss, Brain, Overeating, Shopping, Health, Healthy Eating, Holiday Shopping, Too Much Food, Mindfulness, Food, Buying Power, Spending Money, Buying, Living News

If only there were a way to immediately link the immediate pleasure of downing that pint of Cherry Garcia with the distant pain of feeling like a lard ass.

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Harvard Psychologist Dan Gilbert: Exploring the Frontiers of Happiness

TEDTalks | Posted 12.17.2008 | Living

Read More: How to Be Happy, Psychology, Society, Entertainment, Brain, Happiness, Culture, Living News

Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research.

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Brain Differences Between Poor and Rich Kids

Dr. Susan Neuman | Posted 12.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Education, Poverty, Research, Brain, Early Childhood Development, Brain Research, Living News

This study emphasizes the devastating effects of poverty on children's achievement, but we must be wary about its conclusions.

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Study: Some Brains Are Wired for Change

Yahoo! News | Amelia TomasLiveScience StaffLiveScience.Com | Posted 12.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Wiring, Change, Brain, Wired for Change, Personal Health, Health, Transformation, Living News

If you're among those who think it's time for change, your attitude may be strongly influenced by how your brain is wired. People who welcome new exp...

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Obama Infomercial and Your Brain

Stephen H. Baum | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Politics, Neuroscience, Election, Brain, Barack Obama, Obama Infomercial, Psychology, Politics News

One of the roles of leadership is to provide such sense of control to others. And that is why the Obama infomercial is likely to have been very effective.

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McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging

Dr. Robert Epstein | Posted 10.26.2008 | Living

Read More: John McCain, Brain, John Mccain Age, Senior Moment, Elderly, Aging, Growing Old, Living News

72-year-old McCain is the oldest person in U.S. history to run for the presidency. The age issue is one of many that will help decide the upcoming election. What's the truth about it?

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God's Hybrid

Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 10.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Antibiotics, Adverse Drug Reactions, Fatigue, Life Force, Detoxification, Bacteria, Health, God, Nutrition, Darwin, Diet, Brain, Digestive Tract, Natural Resources, McCombs Plan, Arthritis, LifeForce Plan, Candida Albicans, Aging, Hormones, Rockefeller, Skin, Headaches, Evolution, Colon, Probiotics, Inflammation, Candida, Living News

Somewhere along the primordial way, a bunch of micro-organisms became enclosed by, fewer in number, but larger "tissue" cells and the evolutionary rac...

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Quiz: Is It Time To Change Your Brain Filter?

Eli Davidson | Posted 10.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Reptillian Brain, Self Help, Brain, Personal Health, Brain Filter, Living News

1. Look around your room. Spot all the blue objects. Got them all? Great. 2. Now, look around your room. Spot all the red objects. Got them all? Great...

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How Sarah Palin Won The Debate

William Klein | Posted 09.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Political Satire, Joe Biden, Brain, Presidential Debates, Humor, 2008 Presidential Race, Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Debate, Politics News

Gov. Palin's surprising performance began with the first question, "How will Uyghur nationalism affect the future of the East Turkestan Islamic Movement?"

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Kick In The Tush Club: Tip-Toeing Past The Amygdala

Janice Taylor | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Lose Weight, Janice Taylor, Brain, Kick in the Tush Club, Healthy Lifestyle, Well-Being, Health, Weight Loss, Weight Loss Tips, Amygdala, Wellness, Our Lady of Weight Loss, Life, Happiness, Personal Health, Living News

The amygdala, an almond shaped structure located in the mid-section of the brain, is crucial to our survival. It is where the "Fight or Flight" respo...

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Top 25 Brainy Haikus. Yours?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 08.11.2008 | Living

Read More: Mind-Body Connection, Sharpbrains, Mind.Body.Soul, Brain, Haiku, Mindfulness, Health, Brain Teasers, Meditation, Mind Games, Living News

Can you write a haiku describing anything crossing your mind now?

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Head Trip: Who Do You Trust When Your Child's Surgeons Give Conflicting Advice?

Joel Schwartzberg | Posted 07.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Pediatricians, Head, Neuroscience, Neurosurgery, Brain, Surgery, Headaches, Chiari Malformation, Children, Arnold Chiari, Brain Surgery, Childrens Hospital, Children's Health, Surgeon, Columbia-Presbyterian, Living News

Like any father, I wish I could take my son's place in all of life's harrowing rides, but I settle for what I can do: sit close, hold his hand, and tighten his buckle.

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Ready to Measure Your Brain Fitness?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Otraumatic Brain Injury, Cognitive Screening, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Nih, Brain, Military Brain, Cognitive Assessment, Health, Health Insurance, Brain Resource, Brain Fitness, Brain Age, Optumhealth, Living News

Brain scientists don't recognize one overall "brain age" or "intelligence". We can view our brain functions or cognitive abilities as a variety of skills; there's no "brain age" that can be measured.

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The Third Screen: Jonah Lehrer on the Future of Media

Vickie Karp | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Neuroscience, Television, Brain, Lehrer, Jonah Lehrer, Proust Was a Neuroscientist, Science, Entertainment News

Why do people talk to their television sets? Have television and real life become hopelessly intertwined? I spoke with Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was A Neuroscientist, about these and other questions.

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Snacks for the Brain

Donna Fish | Posted 07.02.2008 | Home

Read More: Snacks, Brain, Relaxing, Overeating, Home News

I am sitting today with a patient, and reminded, yet again, of how hard it can be to figure out how to RELAX. Ever notice how when you go on vacation...

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A Multi-Pronged Approach to Brain Health

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Healthy Eating, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Baby Boomers, Cognitive Science, Alzheimers, Mental Health, Brain, Exercise, Nutrition, Ted Kennedy Brain Tumor, Brain Fitness, Living News

I interviewed Dr. Larry McCleary, the former acting Chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Denver Children's Hospital about how to nourish our brains.

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Why Smart Brains Make Stupid Decisions

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Books, Harvard, Irrational, Dark Force, Rational, Brain, Ori Brafman, Decision-Making, Sway, Smart Brain, Stanford, Psychology, Smart Brains, Books, Huffpost Books, Living News

It happens. Often. But why? To answer that, we secured an interview with Ori Brafman, co-author of Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior.

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Gay Brain, My Brain, Your Brain...

Liz Spikol | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Homosexuality, Comic Strips, Queer, Brain, Brain Biology, Biology, Lesbian, Bisexual, Bisexuality, Kinsey Scale, Heterosexuality, Philadelphia, Gay, Gender, Politics News

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says gays and lesbians do, in fact, have biological differences that suggest homo...

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Brain Training: Fact or Fiction?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living

The success of Nintendo Brain Age and the PBS special devoted to brain plasticity are signs of growing interest in Brain Training.

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Left Brain, Right Brain

Peter Clothier | Posted 05.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Neuroscience, Brain, Health, Living News

"Are you right- or left-brained?" is a silly question. Still, it seems clear that one side of the brain may predominate in each of us individually.

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McCain's Brain

Jeff Danziger | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Bush, Brain, Cartoon, Politics News

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Junk Media: ABC News, Top Dogs, and Hard-Wiring

Dan Agin | Posted 04.24.2008 | Media

Read More: Junk Science, Neuroscience, Brain, Behavior, Junk Media, Hard-Wiring, ABC News, Social Hierarchies, Hard-Wired for Heirarchy, Media News

ABC News either thinks people want to hear that human behavior is hard-wired or they themselves believe it and they want to convince the public they should believe it also.

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Top 23 Brainy Books

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 04.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Brain Books, Improve Memory, Cognitive Psychology, Books, Brain Health, Brain and Mind, Neurogenesis, Healthy Aging, Neuroplasticity, Cognitive, Neuroscience, Sharpbrains, Education, Neurons, Brain, Brain Research, Exercise, Brain Training, Living News

A decade after the so-called "Decade of the Brain" of the 90s, brain research has started to provide spectacular and thought-provoking findings.

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