Day: December 1, 2008
Brain exercises are ‘waste of time’
“Professor says that nobody should be fooled by ‘dangerous’ myths about boosting creativity”
UFO enthusiasts call on Obama to release X-Files
Baptism Of Christ By Aert De Gelder
via Telegraph.UK
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Anatomic Basis for Being Change-Friendly
‘…[P]eople who actively seek lifestyle changes may have a more developed connection between two specific brain areas: the hippocampus, a site for storing and retrieving new and old memories, and the ventral striatum, a reward system which is responsible for those carpe diem moments, said researcher Dr. Bernd Weber of the Life & Brain Center at the University of Bonn in Germany. Turns out, if the hippocampus identifies an experience as new, it then relays signals to the striatum to release neurotransmitters which lead to positive feelings.
"The strength of the connection is positively correlated to novelty seek[ers] …’
via Yahoo! News
150 whales die in stranding off Australian coast
via Yahoo! News