Protect Your Health

Posted on Saturday, 16th July 2011 by Jake Clutterbuck

Your brain works hard to help understand your fellow person no matter how different they may be.

According to a new study from USC, even failing to possess a full complement of limbs will not stop your brain from understanding what it is like for someone else to experience pain in one of them. It may, however, change the way your brain does so.

In a paper published online by Cerebral Cortex, USC researcher Lisa Aziz-Zadeh furthered her ongoing work in mapping out the way the brain generates empathy, even for those who differ physically from themselves.

According to Aziz-Zadeh’s findings, empathy for someone to whom you can directly relate or example, because they are experiencing pain in a limb that you possess is mostly generated by the intuitive, sensory-motor parts of the brain.

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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Jake Clutterbuck

For any species hoping to survive in the wild, the lifetime to-do list is agreeably brief: eat, mate, defend your turf and, above all, protect your young. It’s that last one that seems the most primally encoded, and for good reason: it’s hardly possible to pass on your genes if your babies die before they’re old enough to have offspring of their own. And yet not only do animals sometimes fail to protect the young of their species they often kill them themselves.

Infanticide is disturbingly common in nature. It’s typically committed by males that take over a pride or pack and kill whatever babies are present to make room for the ones they plan to father.

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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Marcus Gollan

Your brain works hard to help understand your fellow person – no matter how different they may be. According to a new study from USC, even failing to possess a full complement of limbs will not stop your brain from understanding what it is like for someone else to experience pain in one of them. It may, however, change the way your brain does so.

In a paper published online by Cerebral Cortex, USC researcher Lisa Aziz-Zadeh furthered her ongoing work in mapping out the way the brain generates empathy, even for those who differ physically from themselves.

According to Aziz-Zadeh’s findings, empathy for someone to whom you can directly relate — or example, because they are experiencing pain in a limb that you possess — is mostly generated by the intuitive, sensory-motor parts of the brain. Howev

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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Brooke Richmond

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Posted on Friday, 15th July 2011 by Brooke Richmond

If bad driving is a disease, some people should be locked up in deep quarantine. Turn signal phobia, red light blindness, tailgate-itis, cellphone dementia — today’s roads are a hot zone of pathology. So here’s to Dr. Jin Huiqing, a physician in China who feels that bad driving should be treated like an illness–something that can be predicted, diagnosed and treated. It’s no surprise that a Chinese doctor would be concerned about driving. I’ve been in Beijing traffic–imagine a bad jam in L.A., but with less regard for human life. And more bicycles. If someone discovers a drug that improves driving, it should go straight into the city’s water supply. I think Jin is on the right track. Read full article…

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