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News Briefs /Further Explorations Into the
Mind
by Eldon Taylor
News Briefs
Vague threats stimulate brain
Uncertain or vague threats produce more brain activity as measured by functional magnetic resonance imaging than identified threats according to a new study by Reginald B. Adams Jr. of Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H.
The full report can be read in the June 6th Science. (Bower 2003)
Cancer vaccine tested on patients
A new experimental cancer vaccine has been administered to 58 patients with promising results. According to the reports by John Marshall of Georgetown University, who conducted the tests with colleagues, cancers of the stomach, colon, pancreas, breast and lung shrank for 22 of the patients in the study. The vaccine, called TRICON, was given in six monthly injections to the patients in the experiment. The vaccine uses genetically engineered genes to carry the building blocks for four proteins that stimulate the immune response. (Seppa 2003)
Weak magnetic fields linked to cancer risk
According to a report by James Randerson writing for New Scientist, the risk of cancer due to power lines exists in the fact that weak magnetic fields interfere with the normal check cells make before dividing. Randerson reports on Brian Heaton's work (available in full in "Cancer Cell International's " online edition) and puts it all this way: normally cells stressed with gamma radiation delay division while they repair damage, but cells exposed to a weak magnetic field do not pause. (Randerson 2003)
Stimulate the right angular gyrus for an out of body experience (OBE)
NIt may not be long before some smart marketer offers a simple electronic device that electrically stimulates the right angular gyrus, an area of the brain thought to be responsible for spatial cognition. Why would someone buy such a device? Well, according to the work of Swiss researchers, such stimulation leads to an OBE, so who wouldn't try it? (Herskovits 2003)
Brain wave lullabies
According to Leonid Kayumov, director of the University of Toronto's sleep clinic, as reported in Psychology Today, your brain waves may be your best sleep lullaby. Kayumov had 22 subjects listen to a CD of their own brain "music" and found that they "nodded off in 17 minutes on average, as opposed to 58 minutes for 22 subjects in the control group." Perhaps we should all be employing our computer synthesizers to turn our brain wave patterns into brain music. (Hantman 2003)
Meditation makes a person happy
According to a report in the 24 May issue of New Scientist, neuroscientists using functional MRI and PET scans have demonstrated that meditation not only works as a marvelous antidepressant but also creates a genuine sense of happiness alleviating negative emotions. The article concludes with a powerful and thought provoking statement, "Buddhist meditation and mindfulness, which developed 2500 years before Prozac, can lead to profound happiness, and its practitioners are deeply in touch with their glowing left prefrontal cortex and their becalmed amygdala." (Flanagan 2003)
The worlds first brain prosthesis
Duncan Graham-Rowe, writing for New Scientist, says it all in a sentence I'll put this way, the world's first brain prosthesis, an artificial hippocampus, is about to be tested in California. Now that statement takes take your breath away. The prosthesis, a tiny chip that mimics the hippocampus, will be tested first on the tissue from rat's brains. It may next find its way as a method to help people who have suffered brain damage.
(Graham-Rowe 2003)
Bibliography
Bower, B. (2003). Brain perks up to uncertain threats. Science News. 16:
397. Flanagan, O. (2003). The colour of happiness. New Scientist. 24 May: 44.
Graham-Rowe, D. (2003). The world's first brain prosthesis. New Scientist.
15 March: 4. Hantman, M. F. (2003). The Brain Plays On. Psychology Today. February: 21. Herskovits, Z. (2003). The Seat of Soaring Consciousness. Psychology Today. February: 19. Randerson, J. (2003). Clue to how power lines could increase the risk of cancer. New Scientist. 10 August 2002: 7. Seppa, N. (2003). Cancer vaccine gets first test in patients. Science News. 163: 398.
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