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  • Step it Up

    A pedometer study shows Americans take fewer steps than people in other countries.  One tidbit: Being single was associated with taking more steps. Single people averaged 6,076 daily steps, compared to 4,793 steps for married people. Widowed participates moved the least, averaging 3,394 daily steps.

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  • Might Be the Dopamine

    A study finds a possible explanation why men are twice as likely as women to become alcoholics. Dopamine has multiple functions in the brain, but is important in this context because of its pleasurable effects when it is released by rewarding experiences, such as sex or drugs…Despite similar consumptions of alcohol, the men had greater…

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  • Left Brain/Right Brain

    A client’s recommendation:  Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Tower TEDs about her stroke.

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  • Love v. Pain

    Study:  Love decreases pain.  Commenters: Unimpressed. Researchers from Stanford University studied the link between love and pain by scanning the brains of 15 college students who all professed to being deeply in love. The eight women and seven men were placed in brain scanners that tracked their body’s response to pain — in this case…

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  • Your Doctored Autobiography

    From Why All Indiscretions Appear Youthful (NYT): In recent years psychologists have exposed the many ways that people subconsciously maintain and massage their moral self-image. They rate themselves as morally superior to the next person; overestimate the likelihood that they will act virtuously in the future; see their own good intentions as praiseworthy while dismissing others’ as…

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