Stress Is Very Bad For Your Health- Whether You’re a Human or a Baboon

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This weekend, I read a fascinating article in Wired magazine about stress and your health. (The article isn’t online yet, but the author of the article, Jonah Lehrer, has pieces of the article on his blog.) {UPDATE: the article is posted on the Wired website now.} Lehrer talked to primatologist Robert Sapolsky about stress in [...]

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Posted July 26, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Learning, Thinking, Feeling: People vs. Animals

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Ask a group of people what the difference between animals and humans are, and they will probably come up with as many answers as there are individuals in the group. But my guess is that many of them will come up with some variation of this: that it’s our amazing brains–our ability to learn, to [...]

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Posted March 23, 2010 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Odds and Ends, Research studies