Teens fixated on their smartphones experience changes to their brain chemistry that mirror those prompted by addiction, a new study suggests. Kids who compulsively used the internet or fiddled with their phones tended to have increased neurotransmitter activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region tied to the brain's systems of behavior reward, control of inhibition and mood regulation, a team of South Korean researchers found. " This particular region is well-known to be involved in addiction based upon the …
Pump up your workouts, pump up your memory, new research suggests. The study of 95 healthy young adults showed that six weeks of 20-minute bouts of interval training led to significant improvements in what's called high-interference memory. An example of this type of memory is distinguishing your car from another of the same make and model. The Canadian scientists also found these workouts led to increases in a protein involved in the growth, function and survival of brain cells. The results were pub…
MISTERY WITHOUT ANSWERS Why does not anyone move to help him? Who gave to him the poison? Bosnian Croat war criminal Slobodan Praljak on Wednesday became the third defendant at the UN war crimes court for the former Yugoslavia to take his own life. Other suspects, notably former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic, died of natural causes while in detention at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). These are the men who took their own lives rather than face justice. …
A man in Las Vegas was arrested for fatally shooting his estranged wife while having sex. The man accidentally fired his gun because he thought his wife was going to shoot him. John Fitzgerald Gonzalez, 53, had called the police to report that his wife - who filed for divorce a month ago - was shot in the stomach. He told police that he and his wife, Nicole Nguyen, had a rocky relationship and he had moved out in September. However, his wife invited him to her house one day. Gonzalez told the police that while in…
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