Message-ID: <16213371.1075840549736.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:40:44 -0800 (PST) From: list@list.brain.com To: dgiron@enron.com Subject: Pretty faces get men's brain going Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Brain.Com News" @ENRON X-To: dgiron@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Giron, Darron C.\Deleted Items X-Origin: GIRON-D X-FileName: darron giron 6-26-02.PST Brain.Com BrainStorm Newsletter January 2002
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January 2002 Volume 3 Issue 1
MIT - Brain controls New Year's outcome
2002 Promises broken
Resolution habits
Ecstacy slows learning
Jogging makes you smarter
Pretty faces get men's brains going

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Chairman's Letter

New Year's Resolution? You're not alone if you failed to achieve last year's goals.

Evidence points to a small region of the brain. This region is where habits and behaviors are formed at a very early age.

Known as the basal ganglia, this stubborn little area seems to be all take and no give. Once learned, a habit doesn't seem to want to go into reverse easily. Some basal ganglias are more stubborn than others. This is why it's harder for some of us to break bad habits than others.

Hope around the corner? Research on cocaine addicted mice showed a complete and instant addiction loss after making a small surgical change to the basal ganglia.

But don't wait for this procedure to be available at your neighborhood hospital soon.

For now, continue to work hard to change bad habits and make positive behaviour modifications. Articles in this issue will help you along the way.

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Have a happy new year from all of us at brain.com!

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MIT- New Year's Brain Research As many of us are reminded each New Year's Day, there's nothing quite so relentlessly and painfully recalcitrant as a bad habit. Ann Graybiel, an MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences, wants to find out why we persist in certain behaviors. She hopes her efforts will someday help yield remedies for unwanted habits. More Info
 

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Ecstacy slows learning Illicit pill poppers using the popular party drug Ecstasy experience learning problems linked to known loss of memory caused by temporary brain damage, an Australian study has found. Full story
 
2002 Promises broken In the next week or so, about 100 million Americans will venture down a well-traveled path paved with bold and sometimes hastily conceived New Year's resolutions. Read on
  
Jogging makes you smarter Running may give the brain a workout, too. A new study finds that individuals consistently scored higher on intellectual tests after embarking on a running program. Read on
  
Resolution habits The key to getting yourself to accomplish a goal - like changing an old habit or learning a new one- is to understand that most of the decisions you make are influenced by your internal representation of past events in your life. Full story  

Pretty faces get men's brains going
 A beautiful woman's face is like chocolate, cash or cocaine to a young man's brain, according to Harvard University researchers. Full story

 
Anger and Stroke Risk, By Dr. David Perlmutter, Board Certified Neurologist Clinicians have long suspected that a relationship existed between individuals who expressed anger and stroke risk. Indeed, medical literature has long described the so-called "stroke-prone personality." A mechanism underlying this relationship would certainly not be too difficult to conceive of since the statistical link between anger outbursts and hypertension as well as heart disease have been well described. Click here

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