Archive for March, 2009

Language of music really is universal, study finds

Monday, March 23rd, 2009

Native African people who have never even listened to the radio before can nonetheless pick up on happy, sad, and fearful emotions in Western music, according to a new report published online on March 19 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication. The result shows that the expression of those three basic emotions in music can be universally recognized, the researchers said.

‘You’ve Got a Friend’

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
BRIt's a wonderful feeling when you know 'you've got a friend'.nbsp; It's also wonderful each time you realize you have a new friend.nbsp; I don't have a lot of friends even though I know a lot of people.nbsp; I have come to realize that I have a dear friend who lives right down the street and it feels good. BRBRI met my friend and neighbor a couple of years ago when I started selling Avon products.nbsp; She became one of my loyal customers but more importantly she became my friend.nbsp; She is a really sweet lady who is so intelligent.....not only through formal education but also from many life experiences.nbsp; Like me, she is a senior citizen but one with many interests and hobbies.nbsp; We both enjoy gardening and I'm always amazed at her ability to work in her garden.nbsp; We also both enjoy family pictures and working on our computers.nbsp; We email each other almost daily. BRBRMy friend has a lot of responsibility in taking care of her home and her husband.nbsp; Even though she sometimes suffers from depression, stress, or anxiety, she manages to run all of the household errands and prepare meals as well as do her housework.nbsp; I know from my own experience that these things are difficult when we aren't always feeling up to par....whether it be from mental stress or physical discomfort. BRBRWhat I love most about my friend is her ability to see the good in everything.nbsp; She makes me want to do better at whatever I am undertaking.nbsp; She shows me the bright side of things when I'm not seeing them.nbsp; She cares deeply for her loved ones and doesn't allow petty problems to interfere with her relationships......something I've often been guilty of.nbsp; I always look forward to my visits because I always learn something new just from my observation of her life. BRBRI came across an old video on youtube of James Taylor in 1971 performing his hit song, A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vY1peG8gHQ""You've Got a Friend". /Anbsp;nbsp; It has a few blips in it, but I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it.nbsp; I hope you will too.nbsp; This song written by Carole King was a huge hit and there's no doubt it has been a classic.nbsp; True friendship is a wonderful feeling!nbsp; Thank you, Peggy.nbsp;

The brain ‘joins the dots’ when drawing a cartoon face from memory

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

In a study by Miall, Gowen and Tchalenko published by Elsevier, in the March issue of Cortex, a brain scanner was used to record the brain's activity in each stage of the process of drawing faces.

Study finds how brain remembers single events

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Brief experiences activate neurons, genes as effectively as repetitive activities

Study gives more proof that intelligence is largely inherited

Friday, March 20th, 2009

UCLA researchers find that genes determine brain's processing speed

Guitarists’ brains swing together

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

When musicians play along together it isn't just their instruments that are in time -- their brain waves are too. Research published in the online open access journal BMC Neuroscience shows how EEG readouts from pairs of guitarists become more synchronized, a finding with wider potential implications for how our brains interact when we do.

Stress may cause the brain to become disconnected

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Does stress damage the brain? In the March 1 issue of Biological Psychiatry, published by Elsevier, a paper by Tibor Hajszan and colleagues provides an important new chapter to this question.

Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of Pennsylvania.

Stress May Cause The Brain To Become Disconnected

Monday, March 16th, 2009
Does stress damage the brain?  In the March 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry a paper by Tibor Hajszan and colleagues provides an important new chapter to this question. This issue emerged in the 1990’s as an important clinical question with the observation by J. Douglas Bremner and colleagues, then at the VA National Center for Posttraumatic [...]

Medical-marijuana hearing gets delayed as pot-fueled opposition grows

Monday, March 16th, 2009
By Joel Warner in Follow That Story Michael Lee, owner of the Colorado Springs marijuana dispensary Cannabis Therapeutics In the game of bureaucratic chicken between state officials and medical marijuana advocates, chalk one up for the stoners. In response to a growing Colorado medical marijuana community, and reports of abuses in the unregulated industry, state health officials proposed [...]