Click here to read “Do Animals Get Depressed?” by Sasha Ingber from The National Geographic News on October 4, 2012.
Learning more about depression in animals could one day benefit humans, say scientists who believe that mammals share the same basic wiring in their brain for emotions as humans do. (Although not every scientist agrees with that premise.)
Click here to read “Xanax and Valium Boost Dementia Risk by 50 Percent Read more: Xanax and Valium Boost Dementia Risk by 50 Percent Important: At Risk For A Heart Attack? Find Out Now” by Sylvia Booth Hubbard from NewsMaxHealth on September 27, 2012.
Benzodiazepines, the generic name for a family of prescription drugs that include Xanax and Valium used to treat anxiety and insomnia, raise the risk of developing dementia within 15 years by 50 percent. An alarming study found that the drugs, which are used to treat anxiety and insomnia, increased risk in people over the age of 65 who had used benzodiazepines.
Click here to read “Breaking the Bias Against Women in Science” by Shea Roggio from The New York Times on September 30, 2012.
A new Yale study has revealed that there is a pervasive and unconscious bias on university campuses that favors male science students over their female counterparts. The result is fewer women in scientific professions.
Click here to read “What to Watch for in the Presidential Debates” by By George Lakoff from Reader Supported News on October 2, 2012.
I’ve been applying cognitive linguistics and neuroscience to politics in six books over the past two decades. The ideas in those books were on display in many of the speeches at the Democratic National Convention. Look for them in the debates.
Click here to read the Kansas State University press release, “Researchers develop blood test that accurately detects early stages of lung, breast cancer in humans” via EurekAlert! on September 26, 2012.
Researchers at Kansas State University have developed a simple blood test that can accurately detect the beginning stages of cancer.
Click here to read “A Call for Caution on Antipsychotic Drugs” by Richard A. Friedman, M.D. from The New York Times on September 24, 2012.
You will never guess what the fifth and sixth best-selling prescription drugs are in the United States, so I’ll just tell you: Abilify and Seroquel, two powerful antipsychotics. In 2011 alone, they and other antipsychotic drugs were prescribed to 3.1 million Americans at a cost of $18.2 billion, a 13 percent increase over the previous year, according to the market research firm IMS Health.
Click here to read “Language use simpler than thought” from ANI on September 26, 2012.
Language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts which in turn are made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls. But a new Cornell University study has suggested language use is simpler than they had thought.
