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Posts Tagged ‘brain

Wound body clock keeps brain bright

Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008

Messing with your body clock may have bad effects on learning and retention. (I’m looking at you, Gella and Mikko.)

clipped from www.sciencedaily.com

The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more

hamsters whose circadian system was disabled by a [...]

Why We Can’t Imagine Death

Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 6 October 2008

It seems that belief in some kind of afterlife isn’t learned.
This is a great article, with plenty of scientific and philosophical food for thought. I just clipped two quotes that struck me, plus something about the Baby Mouse study; I highly recommend you check out the whole article at the source.

clipped from www.sciam.com

Consider the rather [...]