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Controversial Surgery for Addiction Burns Away Brain's Pleasure Center | TIME.com - 0 views

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    How far should doctors go in attempting to cure addiction? In China, some physicians are taking the most extreme measures. By destroying parts of the brain's "pleasure centers" in heroin addicts and alcoholics, these neurosurgeons hope to stop drug cravings. But damaging the brain region involved in addictive desires risks permanently ending the entire spectrum of natural longings and emotions, including the ability to feel joy.
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Brain Scan Study Suggests 'Pothead' Stereotype Might Be Real - WebMD - 0 views

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    Teens who smoked or had smoked in the past had shrunken structures in areas linked to memory
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Hippocampal volume and resilience in posttramatic stress disorder -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

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    The hippocampus, a brain region implicated in memory and interpreting environmental contexts, has been the focus of a controversy in post-traumatic stress disorder. A new study has found that larger hippocampal volume is associated with recovery of PTSD.
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Bilingualism May Keep Older Brains Nimble - 0 views

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    Older adults who have spoken two languages since childhood are quicker at switching between cognitive tasks than single-language adults, a new study finds.
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Our brains, and how they're not as simple as we think | Science | The Observer - 0 views

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    Neuroscience has entered the public consciousness, and changed the way we talk about ourselves. But much of what passes as knowledge is inaccurate
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Why the modern world is bad for your brain - 0 views

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    Multitasking is an essential skill in the era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But, argues neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin, it's actually making us less efficient
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Human behaviour: is it all in the brain - or the mind? - 0 views

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    Neuroimaging is widely regarded as the key to understanding everything we do, but the authors of a controversial new book, Brainwashed, claim this approach is misguided and dangerous
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Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness | Talk Video | TED.com - 0 views

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    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
  • John Crane on 09 Jul 14
     
    oday, thanks to better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first step in this new avenue of research, he says, is a crucial reframing: for us to stop thinking about "mental disorders" and start understanding them as "brain disorders.
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