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Addiction on the Brain
Addiction predictions, 2007. From the January 2007 issue of Popular Science How to Improve Your Brain
Crossword puzzles and brain-teasers? Forget about it. Hot Flashes? Don’t Suffer
What should you do about menopause symptoms? Is your cellphone killing you?
Nobody knows. From Salon.com Book of Life?
We will now cure diseases, weed out defective genes, and create a new supergeneration. Not. |
ArticlesAddiction on the Brain
What will we learn about addiction in 2007? What about genes and the brain, new treatments, an anti-addiction vaccine? From the Popular Science predictions issue in January 2007. How to Improve Your Brain
There's no evidence that puzzles, brain-teasers, music, or most of the other nostrums hyped today will increase your overall brain fitness. And there's a reason for that. Hot Flashes? Don’t Suffer
Taking hormones was once routine for Women of a Certain Age. Estrogen therapy makes hot flashes go away, and doctors thought it staved off heart disease and other ills too. Recent studies question those benefits, throwing millions of menopausal women into confusion. Can you safely take hormones today? Are there alternatives? Is your cellphone killing you?
It's the largest human experiment the world has ever seen. Billions of people are subjected to radiation that's close-up and personal, some of them for many hours every day. Do cell phones cause brain tumors and other nasty health problems? Some studies suggest there may be problems, others say no. But the plain fact is that we just don't know. Book of Life?
Hosanna! The first draft of the Human Genome Project has been completed. A revisionist account. |
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