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Daily Mail, 30.12.08 03:31 UTC

£125,000 to test whether pink rooms can calm the thugs

Comments ( 0 ) Add to My Stories Academics have been given more than £125,000 of public funding to see if they can calm violent young criminals - by painting their bedrooms pink. They are also ...
Charles Spence  Hilary Dalke  Arts & Humanities Research Council  Kingston University  Oxford University  GBP  +1 more

Telegraph, 27.12.08 21:35 UTC

Sex offenders volunteer for 'chemical castration' drug treatment

Sex offenders are being given drugs which lower their libido and make it difficult for them to reoffend, in a voluntary scheme introduced by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary.
compulsory chemical castration  Chemical castration  Poland  Don Grubin  David Wilson  Donald Findlater  +5 more

BusinessWeek, 24.12.08 05:01 UTC

A Boom in Memory-Enhancing Drugs?

Some scientists predict boomers and college grads alike will fuel a boom in so-called cognition drugs. But at what risk?
ADHD  Alzheimer's  ADHD  Adderall XR  Adderall  Aricept  +16 more

BBC Sciences, 22.12.08 09:32 UTC

Scientists sniff out prion secret

The brain protein which has a hand, when defective, in the lethal disease CJD may also be involved in aiding our sense of smell.
CJD  prion disease  Nature Neuroscience  buried food  Columbia  Stuart Firestein  +3 more

Telegraph, 22.12.08 08:03 UTC

'Sex chip' being developed by scientists

Scientists are developing an electronic "sex chip" that can be implanted into the brain to stimulate pleasure.
neurosurgery  Parkinson's disease  the Nature Reviews Neuroscience  United States  Tipu Aziz  Oxford University  +3 more

Times Online World News, 20.12.08 22:03 UTC

What a turn-on: science develops bionic sex chip

FORGET Viagra: scientists are working on an electronic “sex chip” that will be able to stimulate pleasure centres in the brain. The prospect of the chip, which could be a decade away, is ...
Oxford  neurosurgery  deep brain stimulation  the Nature Reviews Neuroscience  bionic sex chip  Tipu Aziz  +6 more

Nature, 17.12.08 18:31 UTC

More prizewinners of 2008

Some other recipients of major science prizes this year tell
Stockholm  L'Oreal  Asia-Pacific  Reinhard Genzel  Charles Darwin  Stephen Kuffler  +5 more

Telegraph, 12.12.08 09:34 UTC

Bagpuss and Andy Pandy shunned by children in favour of In The Night Garden

While their parents may prefer old favourites such as Bagpuss and Andy Pandy, infants respond better to more modern, vivid television offerings such as In The Night Garden, a study has found.
Bagpuss Pandy  Andy Pandy  Annette Karmiloff-Smith  University of London  The Night Garden  neuroscience 

CNN Top Stories, 10.12.08 07:32 UTC

Feeling lonely? Genes might be at fault

(CNN) -- For one person, the idea of spending a cold winter's night alone seems great -- a perfect time to catch up on novels, watch cheesy movies, and drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. For another, the prospect is less comforting -- feelings of depression, anger, isolation set in as the hours go by.
Depression  Netherlands Twin Register  CNN  Maryland  United States  Ken Rubin  +10 more

San Francisco Chronicle, 08.12.08 15:31 UTC

Experts urge wider use of brain-boosting drugs

(12-07) 19:25 PST -- Three job candidates sit in a quiet room, straining over a tough exam. But one of them has taken a memory-enhancing drug the other two couldn't afford. Is the test fair? In ...
SAN FRANCISCO  attention deficit disorder  Ritalin  pharmaceutical enhancements  airline  pharmaceutical enhancement  +13 more
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