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How the city hurts your brain - Boston.com

Citation added: January 5th, 2009, 2:51 pm
One of the main forces at work is a stark lack of nature, which is surprisingly beneficial for the brain. Studies have demonstrated, for instance, that hospital patients recover more quickly when they can see trees from their windows, and that women living in public housing are better able to focus when their apartment overlooks a grassy courtyard. Even these fleeting glimpses of nature improve brain performance, it seems, because they provide a mental break from the urban roil.
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Why We Take Risks — It's the Dopamine - TIME

Citation added: January 2nd, 2009, 3:09 pm
A new study by researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City suggests a biological explanation for why certain people tend to live life on the edge — it involves the neurotransmitter dopamine, the brain's feel-good chemical.
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Human beings are born with numbers on the brain | Easy as 1, 2, 3 | The Economist

Citation added: December 31st, 2008, 4:16 pm
If numbers had been invented by some prehistoric genius, then learning how to use them would be a matter of intelligence and practice. But what comes naturally to most is lacking in a few. Just as some people are born colour-blind, or lose colour vision after a brain injury, others are “number-blind”: unable to comprehend what everyone else sees effortlessly. That deficit may leave other abilities—including other mathematical abilities—unimpaired.
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brain | neuroscience | mathematics

Mind Hacks: Between a rock and a hard bass

Citation added: December 19th, 2008, 4:44 pm
The British Medical Journal has just published one of the greatest and funniest research articles ever to grace the pages of the medical literature with a paper on the potential neurological consequences of headbanging to heavy metal.
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music | neuroscience | brain | humour

Brain-Enhancing Drugs: Legalize 'Em, Scientists Say | Wired Science from Wired.com

Citation added: December 15th, 2008, 3:25 pm
Some people argue that chemical cognition-enhancement is a form of cheating. Others say that it's unnatural. The Nature authors counter these charges: Brain boosters are only cheating, they say, if prohibited by the rules — which need not be the case. As for the drugs being unnatural, the authors argue, they're no more unnatural than medicine, education and housing.
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