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InnerTalk® -InTouchTM Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 12 Sleep On It A pair of new studies suggests that sleep may be critical to the consolidation of so-called procedural skill memory. Any task that must be performed almost automatically, such as those demanded in certain motor skill operations, is thought of as a procedural skill. According to a report in Science News, subjects who "practiced a task requiring quick visual processing performed better on ensuing trials if they were first allowed to get some sleep." In the words of the reporter, "If you snooze, you cruise." (Seppa 2000) Vitamin A May Aid Learning Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California reported the results of their research with mice showing that a lack of vitamin A impairs learning. Sharoni Jacobs and her colleagues report that mice raised on a vitamin A deficient diet showed a weakening in certain connections between brain cells in the hippocampus. A deficiency in vitamin A has long been known to cause blindness and weaken the immune system. (Travis 2000) Science or Religion? Halton Arp of the Max Plank Institute for Astral Physics in Munich, Germany, reported in an essay published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, "that although religion may have borrowed some of the jargon of science, science, more importantly, has adopted the methods of religion. (Arp 2000) Referencing a range of different fields to illustrate his point, Arp concludes that there is an irony in modern science. First it holds to explore and then it portends to hold absolute truths. In his words, "The great irony is that both science and religion started as legitimate inquiries into the nature of existenceaOrganized religion succeeded in killing a great number of people down through the agesaScience has killed and delayed many new ideas and discoveries and has made many mistakes, for perhaps basically the same reason." The author?s final example most of us know to be true from our own life experience: "The public is learning that the most dreaded words one can hear in modern life are ?There is no credible scientific evidence that the substance in question is harmful to human beings.? One just cringes and thinks, ?How long before the data is released and the other shoe drops??" "Laying On of Hands:" Belief is not necessary Researchers using "skeptical" volunteers at Queens College, St. Joseph?s College and Arizona State University claim to have demonstrated a replicable healing effect from the "laying on of hands" healing method. The researchers injected mice with cancer and then treated them one hour a day by laying their hands on the animals and focusing a healing energy through their hands into the mice. The overall cure rate was 87.9% in thirty-three experimental mice. Researchers William F. Bengston of St. Joseph?s College in Patchogue, NY, together with his colleague David Krinsley of Newport, Oregon, stated, "Belief in laying on of hands is not necessary in order to produce the effect; there is a stimulated immune response to treatment, which is reproducible and predictable; and the mice retain an immunity to the same cancer after remission. The tumors in this study were described as developing a "blackened area, then they ulcerated, imploded, and closed." The mice then lived their normal life spans. (Krinsley 2000)
Dogs May Read Our Minds Josep Call of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and colleagues J. Brauer, J. Kaminski and M. Tomasello announced that dogs may "read our minds" by paying attention to our eyes. According to Jennifer Viegas writing for Discovery.com News, "Steven Lindsay, author of the Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training, Volume One: Adaptation and Learning, was not surprised by Call's findings and said, ?Dogs are really high up on the evolutionary tree. It is safe to assume they have the same basic emotions and fundamental awareness that we do." [12/16/2000 http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001215/an_dogs.html]
Arp, H. (2000). "What Has Science Come to?" Journal of Scientific Exploration 14(3): 447-454. Krinsley, W. F. B. a. D. (2000). "The Effect of the "Laying on of Hands" on Transplanted Breast Cancer in Mice." Journal of Scientific Exploration 14(Fall, 2000): 353-364. Seppa, N. (2000). Certain Memories May Rest on Good Sleep. Science News. 158: 358. Travis, J. (2000). Does Vitamin A Aid Learning? Science News. 158: 360.
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