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Smart Enough To Make Ourselves Sick
Why do humans and their primate cousins get more stress-related diseases than any other member of the animal kingdom? The answer, says Stanford University neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, is that people, apes and monkeys are highly intelligent, social creatures with far too much spare time on their hands."Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out," he said. [click link for full article] (Read More)

For Young Athletes Having Fun, Mastering Skills Outscore 'Winning At All Costs'
Boys and girls who played basketball for coaches trained to emphasize personal improvement, giving maximum effort, having fun and supporting their teammates reported lower levels of sport anxiety compared with athletes playing for untrained coaches. (Read More)

Doctors' Own Fear Of Death Linked To Hastening Death Of Very Sick Newborns
Doctors who fear their own death say they are more prepared than other doctors to hasten death in sick newborns for whom further medical treatment is considered futile, reveals research published ahead of print in the Fetal & Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. (Read More)

What Memories Are Made Of: Researcher Studies Plasticity Of Recall
Unraveling the differences between various kinds of memories depends on understanding changes that happen in the brain at the molecular level, says a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. To probe the exact role that genes and proteins play in the brain in response to experience, Fred Helmstetter compares fMRI in humans with gene expression in rats. (Read More)

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