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1. Great expectations -- Study looks at why placebo effect varies from person to person
   07-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Why do some people experience a "placebo effect" from a sham treatment they believe to be real -- while other people don't respond at all" A new study may help explain why. Using two different types of brain scans, researchers have found that the extent to which a person responds to a placebo is closely linked to how active a certain area of their brain becomes when they're anticipating something beneficial.
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2. Why losing money may be more painful than you think
   05-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Losing money may be intrinsically linked with fear and pain in the brain, scientists have discovered. In a Wellcome Trust study published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers have shown that during a gambling task, losing money activated an area of the brain involved in responding to fear and pain.
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3. Feeling Right from Wrong: Brain's social emotions steer moral judgments
   03-24-2007 · Science News Online
   A new study of people who suffered damage to a brain area involved in social sentiments supports the notion that emotional, intuitive reactions typically guide decisions about moral dilemmas.
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4. Hallucinations in schizophrenia linked to brain area that processes voices
   07-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
   According to a study published in the August issue of Radiology, for the first time researchers using magnetic resonance imaging, have found both structural and functional abnormalities in specific brain regions of schizophrenic patients, who experience chronic auditory hallucinations.
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5. Researchers use novel three-dimensional imaging technique
   10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Using an innovative three-dimensional imaging technique, a team of UCLA researchers have tracked how Alzheimer's disease spreads through the hippocampus -- the area of the brain linked with memory -- in a pattern consistent with the known trajectory of neurofibrilliary tangle dissemination, an accumulation of diseased proteins in the brain cells. They found that three areas within the hippocampus of Alzheimer's patients show more atrophy compared with those in patients having amnestic mild cognitive impairment.
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6. Carnegie Mellon study reveals that odor discrimination is linked to the timing at which neurons fire
   11-07-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Timing is everything. For a mouse trying to discriminate between the scent of a tasty treat and the scent of the neighborhood cat, timing could mean life or death. In a striking discovery, Carnegie Mellon University scientists have linked the timing of inhibitory neuron activity to the generation of odor-specific patterns in the brain's olfactory bulb, the area of the brain responsible for distinguishing odors.
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7. Alcoholics with cirrhosis of the liver have more brain damage than noncirrhotic alcoholics
   08-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Cirrhosis of the liver is one of the most common and serious medical complications linked to alcoholism.Heavy alcohol use can also cause brain damage.Cirrhotic alcoholics appear to have even more impaired brain function than noncirrhotic alcoholics.
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8. Ability to handle stress, depression linked to variations in brain structure and function
   10-18-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in mice that the ability or inability to cope with stress is linked to specific differences in the way brain cells communicate with each other.
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9. Shape encoding may start in the retina
   09-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
   New evidence from the University of Southern California suggests that there may be dedicated cells in the retina that help compile small bits of information in order to recognize objects. The research was conducted by Ernest Greene, professor of psychology in the area of brain and cognitive sciences at USC. The study is published in the Public Library of Science journal, PLoS ONE.
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10. Hormone linked to brain's cravings for food and other energy sources
    11-10-2006 · EurekAlert!
    Ghrelin, a hormone produced in the stomach, induces food intake and operates through a brain region that controls cravings for food and other energy sources, researchers at Yale School of Medicine report in the October 19 online issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
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