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Category: The Human Body
Nicholas Carr set out to explore how the ubiquity of text on the Internet is affecting our brains, after realizing that his increased Internet use may be affecting his ability to concentrate on reading long, detailed texts. His essay is...
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Category: For Fun
This fun article by Christina Laun at BootStrapper explains 100 weird, wacky, and interesting facts about the human body. Here are a few of my favorites: 1. The largest cell in the human body is the female egg and...
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Category: The Human Body
Andrea Gawrylewski from "The Scientist" has written a nice blog post describing new research that addresses whether adult brains learn by neurogenesis (the birth of new neurons). In the blog she writes: While researchers agree that the birth of...
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Category: The Human Body
New research from the University of Bristol shows that by suppressing one of the genes that normally switches on in wound cells, wounds can heal faster and reduce scarring. This has major implications not just for wound victims but...
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Category: The Human Body
Sexuality in old age Human beings are living longer, women more so than men. Among people 85 years of age and older, there are 4 men for every 10 women. What happens to sexuality in older age? Read more...
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Is depression overdiagnosed in today's society? Yes, says Professor Gordon Parker in the August 18 2007 issue of the British Medical Journal. Rates of diagnosis of depression have risen steeply in recent years. Parker, a scientia professor from the...
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Category: Health
The first report that gene therapy could enhance muscle in a mouse model was published in 2004. Since then, it has become of increasing concern that some unscrupulous athletes may consider gene therapy as a viable alternative to steroid injection...
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Category: The Human Body
A 25-year-old woman with no clinically significant medical history went bungee jumping. Immediately afterward, she noticed a substantial decrease in vision in her left eye. The patient had a form of Valsalva retinopathy due to increased venous pressure in the upper body, brought about by sudden deceleration in the head-down position (such as occurs during bungee jumping).
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Category: The Human Body
Researchers from Harvard University and McGill University are conducting research on a drug that appears to be able to "dampen" the psychological and physiological stress associated with remembering traumatic events. The drug is called propranolol. It has been around...
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Category: The Human Body
Autism is a complex and mysterious condition. It is a brain disorder that can affect a person's communication or social development skills but can also be related to extraordinary mental abilities such as those found in autistic savants. With the...
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