How Our Brains Recognize Other Individuals

Source: Cornell University News Service
Imagine seeing a former high school classmate you always wanted to know better. Then imagine seeing that kid who used to push you in the hallways. Do you react differently? What happens in your brain during these encounters? more...
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Taking medications to lower blood pressure, particularly those known as diuretics, may be associated with a lower incidence of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study posted online today that will appear in the May 2006 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Click link to read more.
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