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Study: Your Brain Thinks Money Is A Drug

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 08/06/2009 - 10:00pm

Handling money can make painful things feel less painful, a groundbreaking experiment shows. Researchers say it appears that the human brain sees cold, hard cash as a reasonable substitute for another pain buffer — love.

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Brain's center for seeing 3-D is identified

UT - Office of Public Affairs  Tue, 07/21/2009 - 7:55am

Ducking a punch or a thrown spear calls for the power of the human brain to process 3-D motion, and to perceive an object (whether it's offensive or not) moving in three dimensions is critical to survival.

It also leads to a lot of fun at 3-D movies. Neuroscientists have now pinpointed where and how the [...]