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		<title>Real human interaction important for the brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the working hours get longer and as communication scientific knowledge improves, folks are socially communicating less. We are just awfully busy to make new friends let alone construct authentically meaningful bond. At the end of the day, who needs face to face communication when you could do it in Twitter, Facebook and the numerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New source for neurons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON &#8211; Scientists have discovered a new source for the generation of nerve cells in the brain.
Professor Magdalena Gotz of Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat (LMU) Munich and colleagues have discovered progenitor cells, which can form new glutamatergic neurons following injury to the cerebral cortex.
Particularly in Alzheimer’s disease, nerve cell degeneration plays a crucial role. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comfort foods really do reduce stress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian scientists have confirmed what many chocoholics already know, that &#8220;comfort food&#8221; can reduce stress.
Eating foods rich in fat and sugar can alter the chemical composition of the brain and reduce anxiety, says Professor of Pharmacology Margaret Morris.
Prof Morris, from the University of NSW&#8217;s School of Medical Sciences, conducted a study of rats which showed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Brain in Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through the brain-imaging work at the Amen Clinics during the past 20 years with tens of thousands of people from 75 different countries, we have come to see that when your brain works right, you tend to be more thoughtful, playful, romantic, intimate, committed, and loving with your partner — all necessary things for great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reduce anxiety by playing brain games</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mindless distractions might not reduce anxiety as effectively as a brain teaser.
A brain-imaging study published last year by Nature Neuroscience suggests such brain-sharpening activities as crossword puzzles reduce anxiety by activating a region of the brain devoted to logic and concentration &#8212; the prefrontal cortex.
&#8220;This is being supported by burgeoning neuropsychologic data,&#8221; said Dr. Carl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to increase your brain&#8217;s mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our brains are continually in the process of growing, shrinking, and killing neurons. By the way, that three-pound mass of tissue and fluid in our skulls consists of some 100 billion of them. And they’re party to an estimated 40 quadrillion, that’s 15 zeros, potential synaptic connections. Wow!
The activity of the brain is a miraculous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty and Stress Cause the Brain to Shrink</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hanekamp</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Human Brain Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marmoset]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Stress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neurogenesis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stress Effects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Elizabeth Gould has a picture of a marmoset on her computer screen. Marmosets are a new world monkey, and Gould has a large colony living just down the hall. Although her primate population is barely three years old, Gould is clearly smitten, showing off these photographs like a proud parent. Marmosets are the ideal [...]]]></description>
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