Mind Matters: The Neurology of New Year's Resolutions
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Recent studies shed light on why it can be so difficult to stick to our New Year's resolutions.
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By Dr. Jacques Gibble  As I write this, seasonal music is playing on the radio and I am reminded that this is a special time of year. I am going to talk about two gifts worth giving and then offer a New Year's challenge.   The first one is an unselfish gift to others.
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It&#39;s now clear that emotions can affect our physical health, but what about the reverse? Can physical activity affect the health of our minds?
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A study suggests hundreds of unnecessary and risky operations to prevent stroke are being done each year across Canada. A neurologist and dean of medicine at the University of Alberta, is the lead author of the study.
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Probing the depths of spending psychology.
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Tycho:  He came into work yesterday with a prescription for something that will alter his brain chemistry, which I thought was a big step for the man who refuses to take aspirin.  We've long canonized our respective lunacies, believing it is like some artistic sacrament that makes our bizarre endeavor possible.  We have relied upon them.  Or, at any rate, we did.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.
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Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year's resolutions rather than write one. And don't utter, "It is what it is" when you fail to meet your first goal.
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(New York-WABC, December 28, 2004) - With New Year&#39;s resolutions about to kick in, a new study finds many of the nation&#39;s most popular diet plans may be over-hyping their success.
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If New Year&#39;s resolutions list items were ranked like best sellers, &quot;Get More Exercise&quot; would be a perennial entry in the top 10.
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By Parris, Thomas M  This coming January
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The neuropsychiatrist and author talks about why womenÂs brains are wired for gossip, why men arenÂt as verbal and why, when it comes to intelligence, brain size doesnÂt matter.
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What more is there to say about resolutions? All the how-to you need appears in the January issues of women's magazines. Reward your progress , they simper helpfully, as if self-reward hasn't been the problem all along.
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[Health India]: Washington, Dec 28 : A 10-year study of elderly men published in the latest issue of the journal &#39;Neurology&#39; has revealed that more intense physical activity may help people maintain their cognitive skills as they age.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Removing one or both ovaries before a woman reaches natural menopause increases the risk of both dementia and movement disorders such as Parkinson&#39;s disease.
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I plead guilty to past transgressions. So, call me a hypocrite if you will. I don't care anymore. I refuse to get stuck in the past because the present and the near future is fun. Indulge if you will in recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images experienced as intrusive and distressing. The obsession with Microsoft in Open Software communities is excessive and unreasonable and a product of the mind. My only hope is that such thoughts, impulses, and, or images can be expunged by logic or reasoning, which is contrary to the notions in the psychiatric community.
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may help people maintain their cognitive skills as they age, a 10-year Dutch study found. The study, published in Tuesday&#39;s Neurology, reviewed the data of 295 men, born between 1900 and 1920, from Finland, Italy and Netherlands.