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Nov. 11 2009 - 7:00 am | 2 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment

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* Short meditation training can help manage pain — a single hour of training spread out over a three day period — general lowering of pain sensitivity in the subjects

* Early scents etched in brain — “the first pairing or association between an object and a smell had a distinct signature in the brain” — set of pleasant and unpleasant odors and sounds while their brains were imaged

* Gene therapy halts fatal brain disease — scientists have used gene therapy to halt the progression of adrenoleukodystrophy, a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by a single defective gene — in two seven-year-old boys

* 49% of Americans consider homosexuality immoral — even though more than half favor civil unions — about the same number as think abortion is immoral

* Could a bracelet trading alarm avoid investing catastrophe? — monitor your emotions — shut you down if you’re too excited

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