Month: July 2018

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Beta-blocker pharmaceuticals found to be totally useless for heart attack patients… but they are routinely prescribed by doctors anyway

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by: Earl Garcia (Natural News) A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology revealed that beta-blockers, a type of drug typically prescribed for heart attack, may not be as helpful in preventing the disease as previously believed. To carry out the study, a team of researchers from the University of Leeds in the U.K. pooled data from the country’s national heart attack register and identified nearly 180,000 patients who suffered a heart attack, 95 percent of whom were given beta-blockers. The study revealed that death rates between beta-blocker users and the non-using controls did not differ within a year following a heart attack incident. … Continue reading Beta-blocker pharmaceuticals found to be totally useless for heart attack patients… but they are routinely prescribed by doctors anyway

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How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind

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YVES HERMAN / REUTERS In the race for intelligence, one key evolutionary moment may have separated primates from other mammals. by DOUGLAS FOXSAPIENS Suzana Herculano-Houzel spent most of 2003 perfecting a macabre recipe—a formula for brain soup. Sometimes she froze the jiggly tissue in liquid nitrogen, and then she liquefied it in a blender. Other times she soaked it in formaldehyde and then mashed it in detergent, yielding a smooth, pink slurry. Herculano-Houzel had completed her Ph.D. in neuroscience several years earlier, and in 2002, she had begun working as an assistant professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro … Continue reading How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind

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Tennessee Williams on Love and How the Very Thing Worth Saving Is the Thing That Will Save Us

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Tennessee Williams (Photograph: John Springer) “We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.” BY MARIA POPOVA “Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills,”Tolstoy wrote at the end of his life in his forgotten correspondence with Gandhi about human nature and why we hurt each other, as the global tensions that would soon erupt into World War I were building. How love can save us and what exactly it saves us from — each other, ourselves, the maelstrom of our intersubjective suffering — are questions each person … Continue reading Tennessee Williams on Love and How the Very Thing Worth Saving Is the Thing That Will Save Us

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Study Examines Microdosing Psychedelics To Enhance Focus and Ease Anxiety

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image edited by Fernando Kaskais Study Examines Microdosing Psychedelics To Enhance Focus and Ease Anxiety by JOE BATTAGLIA Microdosing is the act of consuming sub-perceptual amounts of psychedelics, like LSD or Psilocybin Mushrooms. A new study from the University of Toronto reveals fascinating insights into how and why people use small doses of psychedelics for therapeutic effects. “”Psychedelics” are substances with the ability to expand human awareness beyond our normal modes of perception. Some may be the most amazing substances known to humanity, so potent that just 1/10,000th of a gram can send one on a journey beyond time and … Continue reading Study Examines Microdosing Psychedelics To Enhance Focus and Ease Anxiety

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Study: Rising Temperatures in U.S. and Mexico Will Lead to More Suicides

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DAVID MCNEW/GETTY Scientists found that there’s a definite correlation between warmer temperatures and suicide risk—at least in the United States and Mexico. by TANYA BASU A study published this week in Nature Climate Change suggests that climate change’s hotter temperatures might have an unintended, unforeseen effect: a veritable spike in suicide rates. That might seem surprising, given the popular conception that winter’s dreary, perpetually gray, freezing weather is often associated with increases in depression and therefore suicide. But data indicates that notion is far from the truth. “Even back to the 1800s, suicide rates were higher in late spring and early summer,” Marshall Burke, an … Continue reading Study: Rising Temperatures in U.S. and Mexico Will Lead to More Suicides

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How getting married changes your personality

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Credit: Pixabay  by PAUL RATNER Marriage can be a wonderful life-long partnership between two people that often results in raising children, shared experiences, better health, and, ultimately, happiness. It can also fall apart, leading to divorce, lifelong trauma for you and the kids, as well as loneliness, which has all the hallmarks of a nationwide epidemic. 47% of Americans do not have meaningful interactions with friends or family on a daily basis, says a 2018 survey by the nationwide insurer Cigna. Making marriage last requires both work and an understanding of the ebbs and flows that are a part of any relationship. According to a recent … Continue reading How getting married changes your personality

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STUDY FINDS CLEAR LINK BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEPRESSION

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by Phillip Schneider, Contributor Waking Times In a world filled to the brim with likes, posts, and status updates, where the average teenage youth spends a whopping 9 hours a day with some form of media, it almost seems as though Facebook and Twitter are becoming a sub-reality of their own. Plug in and tune out could be the mantra of our coming generation, but is that a good thing? New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine reveals a link between social media and depression among young adults. The study began in 2014, when Dr. Brian Primack and his colleagues used questionnaires to sample 1,787 … Continue reading STUDY FINDS CLEAR LINK BETWEEN SOCIAL MEDIA AND DEPRESSION

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The theory of mind myth

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image edited by Fernando Kaskais Photo by Kieran Dodds/Panos Even experts can’t predict violence or suicide. Surely we’re kidding ourselves that we can see inside the minds of others by Robert Burton is a neurologist, author and the former associate director of the department of neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center at Mount Zion. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and Nautilus, among others. His latest book is A Skeptic’s Guide to the Mind: What Neuroscience Can and Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves (2013). Edited by Pam Weintraub Following a mass shooting, the gunman’s next-door neighbours are stunned, and … Continue reading The theory of mind myth

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43% of heterosexual men have a hard time identifying a female orgasm

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Shutterstock  by NED DYMOKE Orgasms! Enjoyed alone or with a friend, everybody loves them, and have done for centuries. What’s more, orgasms are whole-brain events with verifiable healing qualities. But according to a recent study, 43% of heterosexual men don’t know one when they see it.  Amongst the findings in a wide-ranging study (available here) by Brigham Young University, 43% of husbands in a 1,683-person study group of heterosexual newlywed couples misperceived whether their wife had an orgasm. In simpler terms, that means that close to half of the men in the study overestimated how often their partners experience an orgasm. Of the women surveyed, 49% said … Continue reading 43% of heterosexual men have a hard time identifying a female orgasm

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This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths

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SURFACE THOUGHTS: Freud’s iceberg/mind analogy couldn’t be more misleading, Chater writes: “There are no conscious thoughts and unconscious thoughts … There is just one type of thought, and each such thought has two aspects: a conscious read-out, and unconscious processes generating the read-out.”T and Z / Shutterstock Nick Chater argues our brain is a storyteller, not a reporter from an inner world. BY KEVIN BERGER Awhole lot of books on the brain are published these days and you can read yourself into a coma trying to make sense of their various messages. So it was with my usual low-burn curiosity that … Continue reading This Man Says the Mind Has No Depths