Honey, did you hear me? Why men don’t listen

“Why doesn’t he listen to me?’ “Why can’t he remember what I tell him?”“What is it with him and that remote control?” Sound familiar? Yep, I thought so. It’s not uncommon for women to feel that their partner is not listening to them. This is not to say that all men refuse to listen, but it’s a common enough trend among them to at least raise this issue.

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Nap without guilt: It boosts sophisticated memory

Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory that helps us see the big picture and get creative.

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Study: Older brains don't benefit from painkillers

Results from a large government experiment are dimming hopes that two common painkillers can prevent Alzheimer's disease or slow mental decline in older people.

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Nuns Leave Their Brains to Science

When Sister Kathleen Treanor's soul ascends to heaven, her brain will go to a less ethereal realm: a medical lab in Kentucky. Two decades ago, Sister Treanor and 677 other members of the School Sisters of Notre Dame granted a young researcher's request to test them each year in order to track the progression of Alzheimer's disease and other age-related brain disorders.

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Doctors Discuss Theories on Aging Brains

When aging hampers memory, some people's brains compensate to stay sharp. Now scientists want to know how those brains make do — in hopes of developing treatments to help everyone else keep up.

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Ultrasound Can Affect Brain Development

Exposure to ultrasound can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. But researchers say the findings, in mice, should not discourage pregnant women from having ultrasound scans for medical reasons.

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Study: Lesbians' Brains React Differently

Lesbians' brains react differently to sex hormones than those of heterosexual women, new research indicates. That's in line with an earlier study that had indicated gay men's brain responses were different from straight men — though the difference for men was more pronounced than has now been found in women.

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Russian Students Win Programming Contest

A team of three students from Russia proved their brainy prowess Wednesday, winning an academic competition in which they had just five hours to solve perplexing computing puzzles such as how to connect gears of a clock when given a specific shaft speed.

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Rows upon rows of pink musical instruments, dressing-up outfits, and pretend kitchens are encouraging an "obsession with body image, which starts younger and younger" and makes girls think "beauty is valued over brains".

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Cats may retain an aura of mystery about their smug selves, but that could change with scientists using a supercomputer to simulate the the feline brain. That translates into 144 terabytes of working memory for the digital kitty mind.

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a must this video is in english with french subtitles Doctor Jill Bolte TAYLOR is truly AMAZING she talks about her deep knowledge of the left and right brains

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Ravens center Matt Birk, Seattle linebacker Lofa Tatupu, and Cardinals wideout Sean Morey have pledged to donate their brains (post-mortem, we assume) to the Boston University School of Medicine.

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A team of Canadian mathematicians have been picking their large, delectable brains over whether humankind could survive a zombie apocalypse. Their conclusion?

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THURSDAY, June 25 (HealthDay News) -- A 54-million-year-old skull has yielded the first detailed images of a primitive primate brain.

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Interesting analysis by the WSJ reveals:

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How Do We Form Stereotypes?


Throughout our lives, we constantly accept, decide and integrate thought processes of what we will believe and what we will reject. These preferences create the filters which block our awareness of what we do not wish to know.

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Older adults may have difficulty understanding speech because of age-related changes in brain tissue, according to new research in the May 13 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience.

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A study of more than 2,000 female twins showed that those with greater emotional intelligence had larger numbers of orgasms. Emotional intelligence (EI) is the ability to monitor and manage feelings and emotions in oneself and others.

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It's clear to everyone that Treasury Secretary Geithner is in over his head and has no idea what he is doing. He should be fired. Instead the administration wants to give him help.

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Greenfield warns social networking sites are changing children's brains, resulting in selfish and attention deficient young people

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Thrill-Seekers' Brains May Be Wired Differently Region that affects addictive behavior is linked to risk-taking, too, study finds -- Robert Preidt

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In a bid to stem the harmful effects of fear triggered by haunting memories, psychologists have come up with a concoction that prevents the brain from reliving the bad experiences.

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Looking For the Real Game

A computer poem- Stalking real ghosts beyond the crisp monitor, the ones that hang about in your personal dimension: like impulse and instinct, intuition or character.

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The slow fluctuation pattern can be compared to a computer screensaver, say the researchers at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. ...

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Religion is part of human nature and our brains are hard wired to believe in God, scientists believe. The evidence includes studies of babies and children which have shown the brain is programmed to think of the mind as being separate from the body.

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The Dalai Lama is teaming up with Stanford University and a multi-millionaire professor to launch a new research centre dedicated to compassion and altruism.

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You're in a room with 10 other people who seem to agree on something, but you hold the opposite view. Do you say something? Or do you just go along with the others? Imaging techniques help scientists look at the basis for principles of social psychology in the brain.

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I picked up a book titled A Better Brain at Any Age (Conari Press, 2009) to try to find out more about my personal command central, and it has the clearest explanation of brain function I've ever stumbled across. I remember learning from geeky Ms.

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More people need to donate their brains to medical research if cures for diseases like dementia are to be found, UK scientists say.

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Dec. 29, 2008 -- Visiting or viewing photos of family members prompts instant brain activity that affects how you feel about them, your friends and even yourself, a new study suggests.

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It would seem that way. Organizations across the US are hosting retreats and gatherings focusing not just on the "Big Mind," but on the brain. After the jump, a rundown of the ones we know about so far.

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