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Home Remedies for Stress – Tips for Combating Stress

meetjack — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

Now-a-days many people suffer from excessive stress due to hectic and modern lifestyle. In excessive stress, the body tends to break down or feeling drowsy and tired.

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Ashwagandha to Reduce Stress and Enhance Immunity

meetjack — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

Ashwagandha is a prestigious herb and is extensively used all over the world. As the name suggest ashwagandha means smell of a horse

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» 11 Neuroscientists Debunk a Common Myth about Brain Training « Brain Fitness Revolution at Sh

murali — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

Last Monday, NPR (very good US-based radio station) had a program on "do brain training programs work?" that reflected very old-fashioned thinking. In short, the guest speakers talked and talked about the importance of nutrition and physical exercise (both very important, as we have covered in this blog multiple times), and expressed skepticism about the concept of exercising our brains to improve attention, memory and other skills...I guess it takes a while to change old mental paradigms (And yes, some programs work better than others). Neuroscientists have finally debunked that old thinking that our brains decline inexorably after a certain age and that there is little each of us can do to "exercise" and "train our brains". But don't trust me. During the last year I have had the fortune to interview 11 cutting-edge neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists on their research and thoughts. Here are some of my favorite quotes (you can read the full interview notes by clicking the links):

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'Holy grail' drug reverses devastating symptoms of Alzheimer's | the Daily Mail

krishna — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

A revolutionary drug that reverses the devastating symptoms of Alzheimer's disease is being developed by British scientists. Described as the "holy grail" of Alzheimer's research, the drug can improve memory in brains ravaged by the condition that affects millions around the world, including 500,000 Britons. Although existing pills can delay the progress of symptoms including memory loss, none is capable of repairing the damage to the brain. With 500 new cases of the disease diagnosed every d

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15 good practices for getting a good nights sleep - Just Keep The Change

preity — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

Many people, all over the world, have trouble falling asleep; they have problems with waking up in the middle of the night, they wake up to early, they don’t feel well-rested when they wake up in the morning, and the list goes on. You don’t want to be one of those people, do you? Here’s a list of 15 things you can do, to improve the quality of your well earned sleep.

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Dymaxion Sleep - TIME

krishna — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

Sleep is just a bad habit. So said Socrates and Samuel Johnson, and so for years has thought grey-haired Richard Buckminster Fuller, futurific inventor of the Dymaxion* house (TIME, Aug. 22, 1932), the Dymaxion car and the Dymaxion globe. Fuller made a deliberate attempt to break the sleep habit, with excellent results. Last week he announced his Dymaxion system of sleeping. Two hours of sleep a day, he said firmly, is plenty.

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9 exercises to prevent insomnia - or sleepless nights : Flex RIA

maverick99 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

So you want to say no to insomnia. Then let’s do some exercises:

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Chronic Sleep Loss Affects The Body Differently To Acute Sleep Loss, Researchers Show

maverick99 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

We've all experienced that occasional all-too-short night of sleep -- staying out too late at a party on a weeknight, studying into the wee hours for a morning exam or being kept up during the night with a sick child. Our bodies try to catch up by making us sleep more and/or more deeply the following night. It is well established that following an acute period of sleep loss, the body responds this way in order to maintain a homeostatic balance between sleep and wakefulness. Very little is known

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Antihistamine Shows Promise in Treating Alzheimer’s - New York Times

murali — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

A drug long used as an antihistamine in Russia is showing what some scientists characterize as surprisingly strong results in treating Alzheimer’s disease. Results of a midstage clinical trial are expected to be presented this week that will show that patients treated with the drug, Dimebon, did better than those receiving a placebo on all five measures of cognition and behavior. “These are the best data that a Phase 2 Alzheimer’s study has ever shown,” Dr. Rachelle S. Doody of Baylor C

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Stanford scientists closer to understanding cause of MS

murali — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:18:55 GMT

tanford researchers reported new findings today that they say brings them closer to understanding what causes multiple sclerosis. In the report published in the online version of the journal Nature, the researchers implicated a protein that normally regulates the human immune system, but doesn't in people with the mysterious disease that afflicts close to 400,000 people in the United States. Symptoms include fatigue, numbness, weakness and sometimes blindness as the immune system attacks cells

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