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		<title>It&#8217;s Neuromagic: How Penn and Teller Are Helping Brain Science (and Vice Versa)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s an illusion that dates back to Roman magicians, but the “cups and balls” trick continues to awe: three overturned cups, three balls and a magician that seems to make the balls move through one cup to another. The trick is an audience favorite, but it may also be a window into some serious neuroscience as well. Brain experts say they can learn a lot about attention, perception and brain cognition from magicians, who have been practicing sleight of hand to distract and deceive audiences’ minds for thousands of years. And now the relationship goes both ways: A new study examining the cups and balls trick shows magicians can improve their craft with the help of science, too. “How is that you can see David Blaine do a trick and you’re still fooled a year later when you see someone else do it?” says Stephen Macknik, the director of the Laboratory of Behavioral Neurophysiology at the Barrow Neurological Institute and a co-author of the study, which appears in the journal PeerJ. “The answer is they have all these techniques to make these illusions more robust than what we do in science. We needed to learn their techniques, poach them, bring them back to the laboratory, and we could increase the rate of discovery in neuroscience.” Macknik and his co-author, Susana Martinez-Conde, have worked closely with Penn &#38; Teller and other top magicians in the world to develop neuromagic, or the study of how magicians’ techniques can help neurologists better understand brain functions. Carrying out the first-ever scientific analysis of the cups and balls trick, however, allowed the two to also give back to the magic community by analyzing which elements in a magic trick are most successful at creating an illusion. (MORE: Can You Hear Me Now? Training the Brain to Hear Better) When Penn &#38; Teller perform the cups and balls trick, they throw an additional variation into the mix: After performing the trick with the traditional cups, they repeat the illusion with transparent cups. The mechanisms of the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80186&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Boy: There&#8217;s a Better Way to Praise Your Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Encouragement and praise can come in many forms, and some ways are better for child development than others. Researchers at the University of Chicago and Stanford University who studied mother-child interactions over the course of several years found that the type of praise children receive affects their attitudes toward challenges later in life. Specifically, praise that came with feedback about their behavior and the choices that toddlers made helped them to cope better with difficult experiences five years later, compared with compliments that focused more on the child himself, like &#8220;You&#8217;re a good boy.&#8221; The study, which appears in the journal Child Development, is the first major study of praise and childhood development done outside of a lab setting. (MORE: Measure of a Mother’s Love: How Early Neglect Derails Child Development) “This is something we suspected would be the case based on a lot of experimental research, and it’s exciting to see it play out in the real world,” says Elizabeth Gunderson, an assistant professor of psychology at Temple University, in Philadelphia, who led the study while at the University of Chicago. “Praising the efforts, actions and work of the kid is going to be more beneficial in their long-term persistence and [desire] to be challenged and work hard in the future.” Such &#8220;process praise&#8221; includes comments such as “You worked really hard” or “You’re doing a great job,” which emphasize the child’s actions. &#8220;Person praise&#8221; includes comments like “You’re so smart” or “You’re so good,” which focus on a child’s inherent qualities. These distinctions aren’t new in the field of psychology, but exactly how they affect children’s development over the years hasn&#8217;t always been clear. (MORE: When Parents Favor One Kid over Another, Is It O.K. to Admit It?) As part of the study, researchers visited the homes of more than 50 toddlers between the ages of 1 and 3 years old, and filmed their daily interactions with their parents during multiple 90-minute sessions. Five years later, the researchers followed up with the families, using questionnaires to measure the children’s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80042&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Migraine Triggers May Not Be So Potent After All</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bright lights and too much exercise are well-known migraine launchers, but the latest study hints that sufferers may not be as sensitive to these triggers as previously thought. Researchers report in the journal Neurology that commonly suspected migraine triggers might not be responsible for a hurting head after all. Unlike previous studies of migraine triggers, in which sufferers were asked about what conditions or situations preceded a headache, the scientists exposed 27 migraine patients in a lab to flashing lights, intense exercise or a combination of both to provoke a migraine with aura, a type of headache accompanied by often debilitating visual disturbances. Only a handful of subjects experienced any sort of migraine, and those who did had exercised, suggesting that bright lights may not be to blame. The participants ran or used an exercise bike at maximum effort for an hour, while researchers used a combination of lamps, flashes and other visual stimuli to mimic light disturbances for up to 40 minutes in order to study the combined effect of light and exercise. After these sessions, only 11% of the participants — three patients — experienced migraines with auras, and an additional 11% experienced migraines without auras. “What have generally been reported as sure triggers for migraines are not so sure when you actually expose people to them” says Dr. Jes Olesen, the study’s corresponding author from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology. (MORE: Can Brain Freeze Solve the Mystery of Migraines?) Dr. Stephen D. Silberstein, a professor of neurology at Thomas Jefferson University and the director of the Jefferson Headache Center who co-wrote an accompanying editorial for the study, suggests that some of what people think are triggers may actually be symptoms of migraines instead. “You eat chocolate and you get a headache. Does that mean chocolate triggers the headache?” Silberstein asks. “What probably happens is the first symptom of your migraine attack is the desire to eat chocolate. Just like when you’re pregnant, you might want pickles or ice cream.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78587&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chimps Can Play Fair, Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nolan Feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chimpanzees and people already share much when it comes to our evolutionary history, and the latest research shows we have a similar appreciation for fairness as well. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the first evidence for the trait, which scientists had previously thought was exclusive to higher-thinking Homo sapiens, in chimps. The common ancestral lineage of humans and chimps also means that the discovery could provide insight into how human behavior evolved. Researchers at Emory University’s Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Georgia State University played “the ultimatum game” with chimpanzees to find out if chimps are sensitive to how rewards are divided up after collaborating to obtain them. Chimpanzees, like people, acted more equitably than selfishly when they had to work together to obtain food rewards. (PHOTOS: Primatologist Jane Goodall) That&#8217;s not a complete surprise, given what is already known about chimpanzee social structures. They are social and cooperative animals that work together to hunt, defend their territory and share food. Some studies suggest chimps even keep track of how frequently other chimpanzees support or help them. But while some past studies have suggested that chimpanzees might split shared bounty equitably, none have demonstrated a clear sense of fairness until now. “We were surprised people hadn&#8217;t been able to show it experimentally before given all that anecdotal information that we have, from wild chimpanzees to chimps in captivity,” says Darby Proctor, the study’s first author. In the study, researchers created a modified version of the ultimatum game, a classic test for studying fairness. When the experiment is performed with people, one participant is usually given money that he or she can divide up in any way with a second anonymous participant in another room. If the second participant accepts the offer, both go home happy, but if he or she rejects the offer, neither participant keeps the cash. It’s in the best interest of the first participant to play fair &#8212; if the participant acts too selfishly, he or she might<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77864&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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