My family does not consume high fructose corn syrup, as far as we know, which takes considerable effort. The stuff is literally in everything, including Baby Tylenol. To avoid high fructose corn syrup, we try to make as much food as possible from scratch. Otherwise, we are serious label readers! Read more…
A new article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine points to some correlations between depression in women and high BMI and Internet use in men and the likelihood that they played videogames. I’m fairly certain that the original article is careful about the distinction between correlation and causality, but Read more…
Neuroscientists have known for some time that we do not have a “happy” center or an “anger” center of the brain, but rather these emotional states have unique patterns of activity. Now it appears that researchers can identify a person’s mental state rather accurately by comparing his/her patterns of activity Read more…
Japanese researchers have reported in Nature that they have successfully inserted the gene for green flourescent protein (GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria into primates. Previous teams in the US have been successful in inserting genes into primates, but this is the first report of a genetic change in primates that is Read more…
I am always up for suggestions on how to improve brain function, whether this means Sudoku, videogames, exercise, diet, and so on. So I read with interest that a group of UCLA researchers are reporting correlations between gray matter volume and the practice of meditation [1]. I have never tried Read more…