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Herbert and her team concluded: "'Interoceptive awareness' as assessed by heartbeat perception seems to represent a better ability to focus, to perceive and to process internal bodily information across visceral modalities, such as gastric signals, with cardiac and gastric signals both representing bodily cues that show perceivable activity changes during situations of everyday life." 
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The ability to decode the brain's electrical signals into mathematical patterns promises to allow humans to control a variety of machines simply by thinking about them. Articles about ALGORITHM: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=algorithm
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The discovery of a major gear in the biological clock that tells the body when to sleep and metabolize food may lead to new drugs to treat sleep problems and metabolic disorders, including diabetes.
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Scientists who study the human hand have determined that the appearance of digital independence is deeply deceptive.
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What empathy allows us to do is viscerally imagine the current physical state of the other, and, as an extension, their future actions. We do this by conjuring up and synthesizing our own embodied knowledge through a heightened awareness of the signals perceived from the other. Via Edwin Rutsch
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You may have noticed that when you think positively, you tend to feel more relaxed and energetic. When you are upset, you are more likely to feel tired and lazy. These sensations are not coincidental. The way we think—our attitudes and outlook on life—strongly affects our physical state.
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The results of a groundbreaking surgery, involving a woman who received a prosthetic jaw created by a 3D printer, have just been published. Dutch surgeons who performed the operation say it is a one-of-a-kind procedure. Before the surgery, the jaw was designed specifically to fit the woman's face. Then it was sent to the printer, where titanium powder was fused with a laser layer by layer to create a complex implant involving articulated joints, cavities to promote muscle attachment and grooves to direct the regrowth of nerves.
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In our last post we posed a primate puzzler. How did the chimpanzee in Wolfgang Köhler’s experiment reach the banana hung from a hook in the ceiling? Solving this primate puzzler involves thinking with body feelings.
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See how a lifetime of poor health habits can destroy your cardiovascular system.
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Neuroscientists have discovered how the sense of touch is wired in the skin and nervous system. The new findings open new doors for understanding how the brain collects and processes information from hairy skin.
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How dogs in a new study responded to a woman’s greeting depended on whether she looked at them.
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Release Tension in the Mind Through the Body (There is an excellent technique that is used in meditation that can be adapted to use throughout the day http://t.co/EtC53Cce...)... Via Lesley Rodgers
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Ericsson aims to turn our anatomy into a USB key -- a bridge between gadgets with its 'Connected Me' technology. Via brianlmerritt
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XVIVO partnered with a major international telecommunications provider to create an animation that is both informative and compelling. Enjoy!
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http://www.ted.com TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunnin... Articles about TECHNOLOGY http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=technology
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The body specificity hypothesis (Casasanto, 2009) posits that the way in which people interact with the world affects their mental representation of information. For instance, right- versus left-handedness affects the mental representation of affective valence, with right-handers categorically associating good with rightward areas and bad with leftward areas, and left-handers doing the opposite.
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Washington, Feb 15 (IANS) We are actually kidding ourselves when we take pride in our rational thinking - who knows when it may be hijacked by quirks.
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Cognitive scientist Daniel Casasanto, of The New School for Social Research, has shown that quirks of our bodies affect our thinking in predictable ways, across many different areas of life, from language to mental imagery to emotion.
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Evidence from all over the world suggests that men strongly prefer women who have a lot of body fat (roughly 30 percent of their body weight) and whose body fat is distributed in a particular way, with very little in the waist but much more in the hips, buttocks and thighs, producing a small waist-hip ratio. Why have men evolved to prefer such high levels of fat--more than bears settling down to hibernate or whales swimming in frigid waters? And even if it could be explained how more fat makes a better mom, why would it matter where she stored it; what is the message contained in a low waist-hip ratio? So this male preference actually consists of two nested psychological puzzles.
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This 3D medical animation describes PCOS, polycystic ovary (ovarian) syndrome. The animation begins with the normal anatomy and physiology of the ovaries, including the effects of certain hormones on the ovaries during the menstrual cycle. Then, what is known about the pathophysiology of PCOS is shown, including abnormal amounts of specific hormones and how they cause certain symptoms, such as infertility, acne, and abnormal hair growth. Treatments for PCOS are described, including hormonal birth control, anti-androgens, diabetes and fertility medications, and laparoscopic ovarian drilling.
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Science is beginning to show that meditation can have a major impact on the way our brain and bodies function, write Jonathan Krygier and Andrew Kemp.
Tyler's curator insight,
January 10, 2013 11:04 AM
Meditation has always been an intriguing form of stress relief to me. Of the many different techniques, this one seems to be the most difficult for people to do. To be able to seperate our mind from the world around us is a daunting task, which is why I am glad that I found this article. This helped tremendously with my education on the subject, and I walked away far more intrigued than I was beforehand. Although I will probably stick to easier ways of reducing stress, I am glad that I at least was able to learn a bit more about meditation and the benefits that it brings. 
Brady Wyman's curator insight,
March 25, 2013 12:03 PM
Shows benefits of meditation on mental health.
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(Medical Xpress) -- You – or more accurately, your brain – has control over how allergic your skin is, suggests new research.
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There is one important lesson, however, to be learned from Benjamin Gompertz’s mysterious observation. By looking at theories of human mortality that are clearly wrong, we can deduce that our fast-rising mortality is not the result of a dangerous environment, but of a body that has a built-in expiration date.
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