Possible link between depression and Alzheimer

The frequency of use of antidepressants in Alzheimer's patients is higher than other people and this abuse of drugs cannot be explained in terms of medical treatment of psychiatric disorders, at least according to a study carried out in Finland based on over sixty-two thousand people in the country diagnosed with Alzheimer's between 2005 and 2011. Researchers have found that it is more frequently the beginning of antidepressant therapies in people nine years before Alzheimer's disease is diagnosed; in fact in thirteen years that was performed monitoring patients health condition forty-two percent of subjects got sick compared to a twenty-two percent that the severe degenerative disease was not diagnosed. Previous studies had suggested that there might also be a link between depression and Alzheimer's.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 07, 2016              n°:   3088      
Bee memory hampered by a pesticide

A pesticide can spread easily in the environment and to achieve great distances and whose traces remain in the air, water and plants even in areas where it was not used may be responsible for the decline of bees, at least according to a survey conducted by researchers in New Zealand which analysed numerous beehives in Otago finding low levels of a chlorine-based chemical molecule due to the pesticide "chlorpyrifos" which causes a decrease in the ability to learn of bees about smells even then with difficulty to remember them. The amount of pesticide that causes the damage in bees is much less than that considered safe, so was restated in fifty picograms the new threshold, a level in practice a thousand times lower. This study raises questions about the laws governing the use of pesticides.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 05, 2016                         n°:   3087      

Memory loss due to the Ebola virus

Over seventeen thousand individuals have managed to survive after being infected with the Ebola virus in Western Africa, but many patients then have complained of memory loss, headache, fatigue, vision problems, depressive symptoms and even hallucinations. Suffer from neurological and memory issues mean in many cases encounter difficulties in everyday life, in school or at work, then some complain about a really poor quality sleep; then with inevitable repercussions on the labour market. Another problem concerns the possible transmission of the virus through sex in survivors; in fact thirty-eight percent of men tested positive to the virus in the inspections carried out on seed a year after being admitted (in some cases a year and a half). As regards the end of the active phase of the epidemic unfortunately after the aftermath were reported new cases even though the overall situation has improved.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 26, 2016                         n°:   3080      

Gravitational waves late entries

What has been touted as a remarkable discovery in astronomy referring to gravitational waves can be compared as the first observations of celestial bodies; in fact, had already been announced in 2014 analyzing data received from a radio telescope at the South Pole, then there are also those who argue that the discovery dates back to 2010 or earlier. In theory these gravitational waves propagate in the cosmos figuratively in the same way as the characteristic concentric waves that are formed on the water if throw a rock, but at the speed of light and leaving a very weak signal that would be (?) heard a noise coming from the merger of two black holes. Lately the physics is facing many difficulties and can't explain yet many theories, for example as quantum mechanics that is used to describe only extremely small objects and not to the celestial bodies.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 16, 2016                         n°:   3071      

Zika virus in the brain of some infants

For the moment there is still not evidence that the virus Zika cause microcephaly in newborns, but since it was found in Brazil in the brains of some children died due to lack of development of brain function in the placenta and amniotic fluid of mothers you suspect that there is a strong correlation; meanwhile international organizations have compared so figured this virus to Ebola, so a kind of global threat that requires a lot of attention both for the population and for researchers busy trying vaccines and diagnostic tests. In Colombia nearly two thousand pregnant women already have the virus with the risk of giving birth to a baby with small skull and brain with intellectual and learning challenges as it happens in some cases for infections or for substance abuse in pregnancy or genetic abnormalities.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 02, 2016                         n°:   3059      

Alzheimer identified well in advance

A study carried out in Sweden with memory tests and gamma scans on individuals who belong to families where it was known that there was increased frequency of mutations that can be connected to Alzheimer's in the brain inflammation that would have identified diagnose the disease two decades before it occurs. The researchers say most of the previous studies were performed on patients with explicit symptoms with severe memory loss without finding effective treatments, but this time it will be possible to intervene before the disease is diagnosed or modifying treatments already available in its early stages. Typically the tendency taken care would be to keep down the level of inflammation and control the abnormal growth of immune cells in addition to the prevention made for example limiting pollutants and heavy metals.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 29, 2016                         n°:   3056      

Spending time with dementia sufferers

Individuals who suffer from cognitive dementia seem to retain a kind of emotional memory also if fail to recognize the faces of family members, then according to English researchers is appropriate spending time with them and engage in stimulating activities even if they forget to have taken part, since feel happy long after the visit despite not being able to remember these events and the disease seems to be progressing. The tendency is to isolate people who suffer from Alzheimer's or dementia and many of these patients no longer participating in any social activity, but according to the experts is advisable to visit them to stimulate positive feelings, comfort and safety. In the past some research denounced such as Parkinson's patients were discriminated simply for being unable to control the movements or for the not fluid language.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 04, 2016                         n°:   3035      

Living with elephants with some cunning

Elephants sometimes eat the crops in rural areas of Africa reaching even to push over the homes and causing rarely even some victim, then according to researchers in South Africa is possible avoid conflicts by joining some kind of seismic tremor along with a low-frequency signal that animals use to communicate for to send away them and improve the cohabitation with humans. Reproduce after registering only the low frequency (inaudible to humans) that elephants use to give an alarm signal that can reach large distances apparently is not enough to do this, since the intelligent animals realize that is false, possibly because it also lacks the tremor of alarm given with paws on the ground, in respect of a type of communication that is think travel both through the air and through the ground. The experiment is to develop a cheap and portable device that exploits these cheat codes can put fleeing the animals.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 21, 2015                         n°:   3025      

Mild intellectual deficit and feelings of stress

That stress is not good for the reasoning is known, but also feeling simply stressed could cause in elderly individuals mild cognitive deficits with memory loss that often lead to far more serious dementias like Alzheimer's; then according to a study carried out on over five hundred people from American researchers to prevent degenerative disorders at first signs it is appropriate to treat the stress. Not be able to cope with daily stress can lead to chronic perception to be stressed, unhealthy for the mind of the elderly people with consequent cognitive deficits; but apparently this feeling sick can be corrected by teaching facing the various events that happen in life. Already in the past had been highlighted how important it was for the mind controlling the stress for example with relaxation techniques and bodily exercise.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 16, 2015                         n°:   3021      

Blue led light to prevent Alzheimer's

Is possible to prevent the abnormal aggregation of proteins in the brain considered responsible for Alzheimer disease and other dementias using blue LED light and photosensitizers, substances that make the body cells and tissues sensitive to light; at least according to an experimental study carried out by researchers from South Korea that employed a technique already proven with photodynamic therapy type where are injecting to the patient an organic photosensitizer and then the light is pointing on the lesion to be treated. If is able to prevent the formation of beta-amyloid protein in the early stages of neurodegenerative disease can counteract their deposit and in this way try to prevent the progression of Alzheimer's. To note that the blue led light (positive in many respects) is considered to be responsible for unhealthy body activation in the evening hours.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 18, 2015                         n°:   2998      

Alzheimer's different between men and women

Examining over one thousand and one hundred brain scans of individuals participating in a test to identify microbleeding researchers in California would have noticed that in the presence of a common genetic variation associated with increased Alzheimer's risk, as a variant of the apolipoprotein E4, men seem to suffer much higher (about twice) of women of small hemorrhages in the brain tissues that may be responsible for memory loss and then cognitive decline. These very small hemorrhages can occur in the brain during the time with cumulative effect unlike a stroke that have immediate effects due to an important localized bleeding in one side of the brain. In the past other studies had reported to abound with fruits and vegetables in the diet so as not to miss the brain tissues of high doses of antioxidants to prevent bleeding.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 13, 2015                         n°:   2994      

Virtual analysis to detect Alzheimer's

By navigate with a virtual simulator of a labyrinth of young people between eighteen and thirty years of age, is possible find the feature of some brain cells predictive of Alzheimer's disease; at least according to a study by German researchers that used for the diagnosis the spatial orientation skills stressed by this exercise to set together parameters such as genetic risk associated with degenerative diseases. Genetics is an important factor in Alzheimer's disease, but the complex interactions between the genes responsible for impaired brain cells are still unknown and this virtual test give an neurocognitive explanation to the spatial disorientation. Other studies seek to understand what is the role of a so-called "brain cholesterol" that helps to form the membrane proteins in nerve cells.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 26, 2015                         n°:   2978      

Stabilize glucose levels in newborns

A survey conducted on more than four hundred babies at risk of hypoglycemia in New Zealand would have shown the benefits that can be achieved by stabilizing the glucose levels for the prevention of brain damage, whereas thirty percent of newborns are at risk, a fifteen percent were likely to suffer this type of nerve damage that may affect parts of the brain and a ten percent must be admitted to the intensive care unit. The threshold to maintain glucose in newborns would be forty-seven milligrams per deciliter although there are debates about what the correct level to monitor and then not clear days before encountering a brain suffering due to hypoglycemia, but this new study shows the importance of avoiding significant fluctuations and levels too high or too low in the first forty-eight hours of life.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 20, 2015                         n°:   2973      

Special skills of primitive men

While from the observation of foot bones of a new species of primitive men called "naledi" discovery in South Africa suggests that are well adapted to walk easily erected, the bones of the hands are a little bent and then prepared to climb trees to escape probably some predator; but at the same time have modern features comparable to those of Neanderthals (extinct species with whom we share different genes). The type of skeletal developments would allow the typical movements of the human hand with the pads of various fingers that can touch the thumb, whereas the apes in this case have some difficulty and this feature could make the difference in handling. The age of this new hominid species has yet to be dated and then the questions remain on how to assess these skills.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 08, 2015                         n°:   2963      

Monumental symbols of Palmyra destroyed

Those which can be defined as the architectural works that characterize Palmyra symbolically were destroyed or damaged as recently the famous Arc de Triumph (some say only partly damaged other pulverized) who often appears in tourist advertising images, according to experts this is in order to raise the profile of the Islamic military group and attract new activists; moreover the valuable architectural remains are sold on the black market to find funds. It is feared that the mindless extremists work against this treasured heritage site continues with the colonnade and the amphitheatre in the work of destruction of pre-Islamic monuments, since they are considered along with tombs and statues idolatrous. To remember that other religions have looted monuments of antiquity considered no longer responsive to new beliefs that were emerging.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 06, 2015                         n°:   2961      

High levels of pollution and Alzheimer's

The children of twelve-sixteen years of age who have a version called APOEe4 of the apolipoprotein E gene, which had already been associated with increased risk of Alzheimer's, may be more susceptible if there are high levels of pollution to the severe degenerative disease and a decrease in cognitive abilities, at least according to the results of an American study that also highlighted that this gene does not vary depending on the ethnicity of populations; moreover it can be found in one of the parents. Using a magnetic resonance were measured the levels of the three major metabolites in the hippocampus, a brain structure important for higher cognitive functions, noting that the neuronal density and functional integrity in the right side was significantly decreased in children exposed to high levels of pollution in the presence of the particular version of the apolipoprotein E gene identified.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 26, 2015                         n°:   2952      

An algorithm to identify the multiple sclerosis

To facilitate the procedures used to identify in the early stages of a serious chronic disease of the nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, you can use an algorithm, at least according to the statements of Indian students that they would have used a system that exploits the potential of artificial intelligence and neuroscience in the diagnosis and treatment of glioma, a tumor of the nervous system, suitable in the case of multiple sclerosis through automated analysis of MRI scans for images. Be able to participate in the early stages of the disease means determining the best foundation for an effective treatment and then has been used an algorithm to separate images of the tumor or the various lesions from the background, allowing a better view, because while it is easy for a person to recognize a face for the machine the same procedure requires complex calculations.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 07, 2015                         n°:   2935      

A mathematical estimate model for the Xylella

To prevent invasive pathogens that can damage many plants spreading rapidly maybe even globally can be used a mathematical model to help calculate the level of surveillance required for an effective prevention, at least according to a study carried out by British researchers who took as an example of the rapid spread in some areas of Puglia in Italy of a rather virulent bacteria as the Xylella fastidiosa that has plagued many olive trees causing costly damage to oil production. In practice to get the picture just make the comparison with a fire that breaks out in a home that must switch off immediately by means of the first outbreaks, but a widespread network of surveillance to monitor any outbreaks immediately to eradicate is expensive and then must rationalize the interventions to determine some sort of percentage of the epidemic level.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 03, 2015                         n°:   2932      

Destroyed a temple of Palmyra

The publication of photos documenting the procedures for destroying a temple built in 17 AD, dedicated to the deity Baalshamin (competitor of Bel for the ancient Palmyrens) and the testimonies of residents leave little doubt about what happened and then as defined by international organizations was a loss not only for Syria but for all humanity. Palmyra before the conflict broke out in March 2011 was visited by over one hundred and fifty thousand tourists each year, then the so called Pearl of the desert has been targeted for war propaganda with destruction of statues and the barbaric killing of a chief archaeologist who was trying to protect priceless artifacts. According to legend, Solomon founded the city of Tadmor in the land of Palm trees which became the important commercial city of Palmyra independent until the first century AD and then conquered by Rome that he also enlarged the now-destroyed temple.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 26, 2015                         n°:   2925      

Omega 3 supplements from young for psychosis

With proper care given to young people for three months of omega three-six supplements can reduce the risk of long-term progression of psychosis such as the schizophrenia, at least according to a study carried out by Australian and Austrian researchers who have selected a group of more than eighty young (from thirteen to twenty-five years of age) identified as at high risk of getting this disease dividing them in half into two groups which one that received a placebo. After seven years of research in the placebo group sixteen young people would be sick unlike four of the group that had been given the classic fat acids polyunsaturated omega three-six although further studies are needed to confirm the result. In 2010 with a similar experiment using always omega three-six had been possible delay of over a year the first psychotic episode.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 14, 2015                         n°:   2915      

New strategies for to treat Alzheimer's

The medicines currently available to treat Alzheimer's somewhat mitigate the symptoms of memory loss, impaired judgment and expression; but do not stop the progression of neurodegenerative disease, so researchers are looking for a way to deal with it in the beginning before the formation of amyloid protein plaques in the brain; in fact it seems that with advancing age in some cases the body loses the ability to clean up those sort of waste and residues that are formed continuously with metabolism. In practice is with the use of antibodies that entered the bloodstream and reaching the brain clearing the amyloid protein plaques, although need to check that everything is proceeding in the best way (in this field knowledges are limited), then must intervene initially at early symptoms; because then it may be too late to benefit from the care.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 28, 2015                         n°:   2899      

Artistic Palmyra artefacts destroyed

International traffic and destruction of artistic artifacts are impoverishing the cultural heritage of the city of Palmyra in Syria considered one of the most important of the ancient world even though it is not clear whether these findings are originals or copies, at least in the case of six statues photographed while are destroyed for a kind of religious punishment of the polytheism. Some argue that archaeological sites are used as weapons depots and transformed into barracks for strategic reasons but making them in this way become sensitive targets. In Palmyra there was a lavish temple dedicated to the deity Bel, who resided in the stones, whose statue was placed in the most sacred place of the religious building, master of fate and heaven which was also associated with the worship of the Sun and moon, but apparently Palmyra’s citizens prefer one God merciful universal who sends the rain from the heavens.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 03, 2015                         n°:   2879      

Kangaroos and other marsupials are left-handed

After a period of observation lasted two years would result that kangaroos and other marsupials (macropodidae family) use preferably the left limb unlike men who generally prefer to use the right, at least according to a study carried out in Tasmania which supports as the laterality is more a characteristic of bipedal animals rather than quadrupeds and any study in this sector could contribute in the mammalian evolution to understanding the reasons why the brain is asymmetrical. Some studies carried out in the past for example had any differences between left-handed individuals behaviors and if there were any advantages in real life since often cite the exploits of some famous men, but it seems that it is above all the training to influence the development of the different areas of the brain that have for the limbs a type "X" laterality for the hemispheres.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 20, 2015                         n°:   2868      

Aluminum maybe responsible of bee decline

Bees may suffer neurological dementia due to aluminum contamination that hampers brain function during orientation in the flight from flower to flower being neurotoxic, at least as emerges from a study by British researchers that found in pupae of bumblebee aluminium levels from thirteen to two hundred parts per million taking into account that for men just three ppm are considered potentially pathological findings for the brain tissue. One-third of crops are pollinated by bees, and then for example the sudden collapse from day to day of entire bee colonies is a substantial loss for the agricultural sector, without considering the non-production of honey. Some had identified parasites who suck the blood of bees and spread disease the cause of their decline, but it seems that a decisive role play mainly the pesticides, above all the neonicotinoids.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 09, 2015                         n°:   2858      

Psychological biases treated during the sleep

By listening positive voice associations to low volume during sleep it is possible to treat psychological biases related for example to racism against people of black color or sexist against women, at least according to a study by American researchers on forty individuals during a "nap" in the afternoon for an hour and a half even though this technique raises ethical questions since it can be used for a variety of situations, then apparently the improvement lasts only for about a week. Sometimes biases are unaware or undergo the influence of negative external pressures, so it might be justified to use psychological methods similar to subliminal messages, but bearing in mind that during sleep a person is vulnerable. Interesting that this technique could be used to correct unhealthy eating habits.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 01, 2015                         n°:   2851      

Request restitution of stolen statues of Nepal

Many statues and other valuable artefacts were stolen in Nepal between 1960 and 1990 after the opening of borders to the tourists in 1951 and sold not only to private collectors but also to museums, then being saved from the devastating earthquake that destroyed many temples depriving the country of its cultural heritage if returned might make a contribution to the reconstruction (whereas the economy of this country is supported by tourism and the population resources are reduced). In some cases the theft of the statues has also weakened the structures of temples, since they constituted the carriers; then according to the country's religious culture the statues cannot be replaced because they are the living embodiment of divinity, each with its ritual function such as protection against the diseases, to promote the fertility or the professional success.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 20, 2015                         n°:   2841      

A targeted medicine for Parkinson's

Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's in general provoke an abnormal growth in the brain of proteins (-synuclein) that impede a smooth operation and can also destroy synapses, but American and Chinese researchers in a joint study would have discovered a medicine, consisting in a new small molecule, for preventing inflammations in immune cell receptors in the brain that normally protect the body from pathogens and as a result of long-term chronic inflammation tend to lose their function and damage the brain. The research is based on microglial cells that constitute the main nervous system immune defense and in practice by identifying that the key to treating degenerative diseases would be to keep under control the inflammation finely adjusting the activity of receptors of the immune cells also with a medicine for the hypertension.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 14, 2015                         n°:   2836      

Nepal's cultural heritage devastated

Two tremors including a fairly strong 4.9 magnitude that has been clearly perceived in the capital Kathmandu with epicenter located in the Nuwakot district rocked the Central Nepal without causing further damage to a country devastated in the important economic sources resulting from tourism zeroed since fourteen important historical buildings were destroyed or severely damaged, and twelve of these were cultural heritage while is over seven thousand two hundred the number of identified victims. Is begin to collect fragments of precious artifacts pending the reconstruction that with few economic resources will be very slow, then need to consider that the earthquake as well as entire villages swept away even the tracks that tourists travel to the mountain climbing in Nepal and many work as guides and porters for trekking.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 04, 2015                         n°:   2827      

Destroyed some bas-reliefs of Nimrud

Could be considered as a damage to the global culture destroying some finely worked plates with bas-reliefs at Nimrud (if are the originals and not copies) since the art, the culture, the pursuit of the Assyro-Babylonians (akkadians) has greatly influenced our and our line of reasoning such as regarding mathematical and time calculations, the religion and superstition, the astronomical observations and the artistic design. The limestone carvings or alabaster depicting in figured manner military deeds, hunting scenes and family of life of the rulers in order to enhance their power, but in the artistic field are known for perfectionism achieved in detail, especially in depictions of animals in hunting scenes are executed with remarkable anatomical realism that gives the viewer the impression of motion and are not rigid and static as it appears from other rituals bas-reliefs.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 13, 2015                         n°:   2808      

Investigations about brain and pollutants exposure

Exposure during pregnancy to pollution due to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons would be responsible for a reduction of the white matter surface in the left hemisphere of children resulting in learning and attention deficits, behavioural problems and hyperactivity disorder symptoms, at least according to a small study carried out by researchers in America that to be confirmed would require broader investigations, then it would seem that most affects the poorest populations which are also much more exposed to pollutants. In practice polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) can cross the placenta and therefore have an effect on the structure of the brain, and white matter in particular, slowing the information processing in the brain. If confirmed this study could be relevant for the general level of health of many individuals exposed to pollution.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 27, 2015                         n°:   2795      

Ultrasound technology for Alzheimer patients

Using ultrasound technology could cure Alzheimer's and also restore memory of the sick patients without use of drugs, at least according to statements from researchers in Australia [country now struggling with a tropical cyclone] that would have detected in the brain plaques similar to those that form on teeth and cause cognitive decline, but the ultrasound waves swinging very quickly work the microglial cells that remove the block consisting of the amyloid plaques that destroy the synapses; moreover is a cure that could open up new avenues for future treatments. Other research still in its early phases suggests a skin test to detect early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, since an abnormal accumulation of proteins in the brain can be detected even in the skin and this would make possible to treat the disease before can cause mental decline.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 13, 2015                         n°:   2782      

One of the first low cost computer

In 1975 he was launched into the kit, also taking advantage of the launch of a specialized magazine, the Altair 8080 (the abbreviation meant the famous microchip) one of the first computer accessible to the general public a lot higher as technology to other proposals and able to compete for computing power with a compact open-architecture processor of ten years earlier, and then giving the opportunity to the cost of an appliance to exploit the potential of the brain and in practice with the same programs. The technological breakthrough was possible thanks to the microprocessor that rode on one small silicon plate thousands of transistors and condensed into a single unit by the low price all the potential of computer computation, then it was possible to develop advanced system programs in high level language similar to current ones and also to program pretty easily.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 05, 2015                         n°:   2775      

Alzheimer treated with nerve growth factor

A small study performed on few patients who require more thorough checks and in the long period of time would have shown positive results in preventing neuronal degradation caused by Alzheimer's disease by administering an implant with nerve growth factor (NGF), at least according to the statements made by researchers in Sweden that have tried to stimulate a particular type of nerve cells in patients; in fact for cause of the Alzheimer's disease there is a selective and premature loss of so-called cholinergic nerve cells due to low levels of nerve growth factor. The facility consists of groups of proteins that stimulate the growth and survival of nerve cells injected directly into specific areas of the brain that provoked the cognitive decline and then the suffering of cholinergic nerve cells in patients whose health conditions were slowly getting worse.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 17, 2015                         n°:   2761      

Studies about the structure of the Earth core

There would be two different structures in the iron core located approximately five thousand kilometers to the center of the Earth with differently oriented crystals, at least according to a joint study by Chinese and American researchers carried out by analysing the echo of earthquakes in the depths of the Earth and analysing the changes while passing through several layers. The hypothesis is that the core of the planet is roughly the size of the moon with two concentric structures whose inner part with crystals oriented in East-West direction (looking downwards on figured manner from the North Pole); instead in the outer the crystals are oriented from North to South. These assumptions about various structures suggest that there may have been some dramatic changes during the formation of our planet in the solidification process that started about one billion years ago.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 11, 2015                         n°:   2756      

Ancient culture of Nineveh to protect

They may have been damaged the walls of Nineveh in a conflict increasingly bleak hued with revenge [..] however unjustifiable. The very ancient city of Nineveh was located between the left bank of the Tigris River and the Kussur River on a hill in front of Mosul and it was a cultural centre (with a famous library from VIII cen. b.C.), but had no books but clay tablets written in cuneiform characters giving the minute signs with a stick that was trimmed at an angle in the clayey mineral that was cooked. Hammurabi King of Babylon had restored the Temple of Ishtar, an East Semitic feminine deity also known as Astarte. Among the stories and legends of Mesopotamia who influenced Western culture to mention the enterprises of Gilgamesh that resemble to those heroic of Hercules, then to cite the calculation tables and the advanced astronomy studies taken up later by the Greeks.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 30, 2015                         n°:   2746      

Creatine to improve reasoning at high altitude

By time athletes known energy characteristics for muscular activity of creatine "supplements" to better exploit the energy stored in the muscles and now a study in New Zealand has shown that this derivative amino acid can also be useful to the brain, improving the reasoning at high altitudes or protecting the brain in environments with low concentration of oxygen and in cases of brain injury or degenerative diseases. The test was carried out by comparing the effects of creatine supplementation (metilguanidinacetic acid) with placebo in healthy adults placed in an oxygen-deficient environment and checking the improvement of the cognitive performance and neural excitability in areas of the brain that control movement. In particular, it would seem that improve the attention and therefore is important to focus the concentration and with protective duties for the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 24, 2015                         n°:   2741      

Psychological thresholds and global economies

The news that oil would have dropped below the psychological threshold of fifty dollars for barrel whereas many global economies are based on the exploitation of this non-renewable resource and destined to run out in the coming decades poses questions about these little justifiable price swings since the oil price has halved in six months with consequences on financial negotiations in many countries such as those of the Eurozone struggling with a situation of stagnation, anxiety and lack of investment. Some argue that the collapse in oil prices is due to the reaction of producers to the controversial practice of fracking that besides unleash earthquakes pollutes aquifers, other that is due to lack of demand in the presence of an overproduction, but for example Libya has also halved its exports after the closure of the large oil terminal of Es Sider.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 08, 2015                         n°:   2727      

Aleppo in Syria badly damaged

Would be almost three hundred the places of great cultural interest damaged due to the conflict which over the past three years has upsetting the population of Syria and destroying archaeological sites of international interest that in some cases dates back to more than seven thousand years ago, as the city of Aleppo world cultural heritage located in the North of the country, considered one of the oldest community of individuals where remained works that revealed cultural styles relating to numerous dominations that succeeded in the time (such as the Macedonian Seleucid age walls, the Roman temple, the great mosque, etc.). Other archaeological areas monitored by satellite show a total of twenty-four sites were destroyed and more than one hundred severely damaged, among the most noteworthy to note Damascus, Raqqua and Palmyra, Crac des Chevaliers, without considering the illegal sale of stolen archaeological artifacts.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 24, 2014                         n°:   2716      

Patients with mental disability discriminated in India

After the case of mass sterilizations in India apparently made with medicines containing rat poison and bicycle pumps to inflate the abdomen in order to operate in very short time now shows the lives of fifty-two women with mental disabilities and of this type of patients in general, herded into crumbling structures that provide inadequate care, all kinds of violence, lack of hygiene with few functioning toilets that forcing patients to do their needs outdoors. People with mental disabilities are discriminated by the authorities who do not invest resources and from their own families, often for lack of education and information on these diseases, are locked up and isolated in institutions and mad houses without having the chance to get out, then in particular for women the living conditions are the toughest because of the Indian misogynistic culture.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 09, 2014                         n°:   2703      

A reminder thirty years after Bhopal tragedy

In December 1984 a toxic cloud caused by a chemical plant near Bhopal capital of the Madhya Pradesh reached the inhabitants of this great city located in central India causing more than two thousand victims and serious injury, and is talk of a balance of twenty thousand victims that can be connected to the accident. From the stories of those who have been invested by the toxic cloud and managed to survive is remind the burning sensation as it had been caused by a blaze of fire in the eyes and in the bowels and then the persistent cough; in fact the methyl isocyanate produced by a multinational corporation in Bhopal caused strong irritation to mucous membranes and corroded the internal organs (with effects on long-term health, even very painful). Needless to say how often happen for this kind of accidents that claims were ridiculous and in many cases the citizens have gotten anything by local authorities.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 03, 2014                         n°:   2698      

Discovery of new subatomic particles

Two new subatomic elementary particles never before seen belonging to the family of the Baryons have been discovered using a well-known large particle accelerator in Switzerland which meanwhile was off to make changes that allow them to operate at higher energy intensity by the spring of next year. The Baryons are composed of three quarks subject to strong nuclear interactions at least according to the so-called standard model for that all matter is made up of quarks and leptons interacting each other under the influence of the four fundamental forces such as gravity, electromagnetism, the strong force and weak. For example the strong force binds quarks together in protons and neutrons, the residual force binds protons and neutrons in the nuclei; instead the nuclei and electrons that are part of the family of leptons are joined together in atoms by the electromagnetic force.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 21, 2014                         n°:   2687      

Better recognition of faces for older people

Using computerized representations of the faces of various ages to show two groups of volunteers, one formed by teenagers and other of adults-elderly, researchers have found that while younger individuals tended to a rather selective categorisation in only two categories the other group showed a better recognize ability, at least from what appeared to be from a study in Scotland showing volunteers three faces that were simultaneously made changes with the computer that made more or less well bright parts of face and asking them to make a choice based on age. Older individuals seem to have a more complete mental representation of the processes of aging and thus better understand the nuances that can be connected to social signals; so for once we can speak of a small benefit linked to ageing.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 17, 2014                         n°:   2683      

Selenium levels and poor mood

By completing a questionnaire about their mood for two weeks with a group of almost one thousand of young people aged from seventeen to twenty-five years of age, the researchers examined blood samples taken at the test would have noticed that either too low or too high levels of selenium were linked to poorer mood, at least from what results from a study carried out in New Zealand who also observed that with very low levels of selenium young adults are more depressive symptoms even if is not the case to use supplements. To prevent oxidative damage to the brain and the nervous system is necessary to provide in a natural way to the body an adequate intake of selenium for example not to miss wholefood in diet, keeping in mind that very high levels of selenium can cause diabetes, prostate cancer and generally higher mortality index.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 08, 2014                         n°:   2675      

Behaviors of sharks to the study

The sharks would not only controlled by their killer instincts, according to researchers who are trying to study the characteristics and behaviors that distinguish about been four hundred and sixty species often at risk of survival, and incorrect impressions about these fascinating animals that maintain healthy marine ecosystem by hunting individuals sick or weak contributors to ruin the image while being the first link in the food chain of the seas can also adjust the size of the other species. With regard to the behavior observed by some sharks species seem to have particular personality acting sometimes by gregarious exploiting the group protection sometimes lonely and trying to hide even if there are no suitable places nearby to avoid direct confrontation, but the knowledge regarding these characteristics still remain limited.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 29, 2014                         n°:   2667      

Hypothesis of high mountain ranges in Gondwana

With an analysis of minerals in Togo, Mali and in northeast of Brazil Australian researchers noting the similarity of the samples would have found clear evidence that confirm the hypothesis of the presence of high mountain ranges, such as those of the Himalayas, in the ancient supercontinent Gondwana that included Africa and Brazil, and extended for about fifteen hundred kilometers, and that may have encouraged the explosion of life six hundred million years ago. The mountains eroded intensely because of their size would have provided a large amount of loose sediment into the ocean by changing the chemical bases and then almost a blend of nutrients that have encouraged every form of life. The mountains have disappeared but the analysis of minerals tell us the story of their greatness as they have been pushed up by the action of the great pressures and temperatures of the Earth's mantle that formed the minerals.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 17, 2014                         n°:   2656      

Understanding the mechanism of earthquakes

Monitoring in a long fault line located in the South Island in New Zealand small earthquakes, temperature, pressure and chemical parameters which then generates a strong shock, an international team with an innovative type project would be willing to understand what is the mechanism of earthquakes. The difference between this and other experiments tempted earlier after strong shocks it is that the study will be carried out before the rupture of the fault through a perforation made for one kilometer and three thousand meters in depth; then the samples extracts will be analyzed that can provide useful information about the active fault such as the presence of clay minerals that due to high-pressure water mechanical causes significant movements. It is hypothesized using that temporal statistics that strong earthquakes can occur on average about every three hundred and thirty years.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 07, 2014                         n°:   2647      

Research on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

Is possible seen as Parkinson's disease spreads in the brain using an antibody developed specifically for this purpose, at least according to an Austrian study that was previously only been shown in experimental models that would have highlighted how the disease looks like in a figurative way to a infection, which explains why patients continue to deteriorate while this sort of contagion spreads throughout the brain and appear new symptoms; moreover know this mechanism could be useful for diagnosis and treatment. With regard to the Alzheimer this time a Japanese study carried out using mass spectrometry would have highlighted the early stages of the disease in the synapses. According to some the brain is able to compensate for the damage caused dall'Alzheimer so as to be able to preserve reasoning skills especially if the memory is trained and held in exercise.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 27, 2014                         n°:   2638      

Long use of sleeping or anxiety pills and dementia

Use benzodiazepines to treat problems related to insomnia and anxiety for three months or longer would be linked to an increased risk of dementia and therefore also of Alzheimer's more to fifty-one percent, at least from what appears to a Canadian study that points out how important it is not prolong the treatment as prescribed by the guidelines of this type of medicines that provide a short use or for two months (three months maximum); then individuals that for example resort to sleeping and anti-anxiety pills may already be sick or predisposed to dementia, since symptoms of insomnia and anxiety may be indicators of Alzheimer's disease. Another study carried out this time in America would have shown a higher incidence of problems with memory, reasoning and cognition in people with blood group AB, but research has not specifically related dementias.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 12, 2014                         n°:   2625      

Emotional stress connected to genetic variants

In the brain the hippocampus may be considered as a control unit that controls emotions and in case of prolonged stress its volume is reduced, at least from what appears to an Austrian study that also found that the so-called positives eustress that result from social stimulants situations cause an increase in the volume of the hippocampus; then the condition of individual genetic variants that can be connected to depression determine how will react to a specific stress and its effects on emotions, then this would explain why to identical stressful events some people react managing to handle while others tend to get depressed. For example tragic events, divorce, job loss causes a narrowing of the hippocampus, especially in people who are more emotionally sensitive for genetic reasons and this finding could be useful for understanding the various neurobiological processes.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 20, 2014                         n°:   2605      

In 1564 Vesalius dies and Galilei born

André Vesale (Brussels1514-1564 Zante) was practically the first anatomist to question the Galen observations of the second century BC and those of his time in general, since the doctors based their information on the anatomy of animals and their care, in one of his famous work of 1543 "De humani corporis fabrica libri septem" doing accurate dissections of corpses; but for these precise descriptions was condemned by the Inquisition on charges that also came from living men, then the death penalty was commuted into a pilgrimage to Jerusalem by the powerful royal house of Spain where he was physician of court, however died in Zante during the return trip. Toghether by a brilliant mind with a vision in contrast, in another area of research, with respect to the beliefs of the time and persecution of religious type was Galileo Galilei (Pisa 1564-1642 Florence).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 13, 2014                         n°:   2600      

Dementia and Alzheimer's and low vitamin D levels

That there was a relationship between low levels of vitamin D connected to a higher incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease in the elderly might be expected, but an American study shows that for this unhealthy association involves a number of cases quite high (twice as much as we expected); in fact it was found that a group of almost one thousand and six hundred-sixty healthy individuals that after six years on average showed symptoms of dementia in over one hundred and seventy cases and more than a hundred for Alzheimer's disease, the levels of vitamin D were low. These results were verified also taking into account other risk factors that could affect the validity of the study as education, alcohol and tobacco consumption; then is think a way, for example with greater sun exposure or supplements to prevent deficiencies of vitamin D, taking into account that in general the skin of the elderly tends to convert in smaller quantities.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 08, 2014                         n°:   2595      

Syria's archaeological heritage to be protected

The situation in Syria is still uncertain for the war that is ravaging the country and its remarkable archaeological heritage from cities like Aleppo, Palmyra, Tell Brak and Uruk (cradles of civilization) is likely to be destroyed or stolen and international organizations have entered Syria on the list of cultural sites to be protected, it is sometimes the same people forced from desperation to sell objects of great archaeological value to get something to eat, sometimes it is greed or to buy weapons and munitions. These areas are rich in archaeological finds of great value and in northern Mesopotamia dating back to eight thousand BC without considering that the first human settlements organized in city were built just in the current Syria and many would argue that these people were very skilled in mathematics, applied sciences and the arts in general.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 05, 2014                         n°:   2592      

Smell out of the ordinary for African elephants

The presence of a number of genes that can be connected to the sense of smell allows elephants to get a smell out of the ordinary, at least according to the results of an American study that has compared thirteen placental mammals (men, chimpanzees, dogs, horses, cows, rats, rabbits..) looking olfactory receptors that would be of particular uniqueness and identifying that only three genes have been conserved during evolution and are common to all species examined; but the surprise was to see how African elephants have twice as many olfactory receptors of dogs and five times more than men. Previously were counted about twelve hundred genes in rats that can be connected to the olfactory receptors, and this value was as a record olfactory before finding that African elephants have almost two thousand; probably essential for survival, finding food and avoiding danger, considering the considerable cognitive faculties.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 25, 2014                         n°:   2582      

Alzheimer prevention

Is possible to reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's by changing the lifestyle doing physical exercise and avoiding smoking, moreover according to a British study can prevent one out of three cases by monitoring various risk factors such as diabetes, obesity, hypertension, depression, low levels of education and this can be very useful also to prevent increases progressively in a comprehensive manner in the years the population who suffers from this very debilitating degenerative disease of the brain. Do not yet know well the mechanisms that favor the disease even if the individuals affected are predominantly elderly, however, keep in shape and reduce the risks to health and environment can be a good prevention. Other searches still preliminary report that it is possible to monitor a number of proteins in the blood to predict Alzheimer's disease with considerable accuracy.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 15, 2014                         n°:   2573      

Brain areas and preservation of memories

Depending on how much has developed a specific area of the brain in the hippocampus an individual would be able to preserve good memories without getting confused between them, at least from what appears to be a British study carried out with functional magnetic resonance scan of fifteen subjects who had call to mind similar scenes of common type of daily life, explaining in this way the reason why some remember better than others, and describe the memories distinguishing the various scenes in more detail. It 's like to have a greater storage capacity that results from a greater number of neurons and connections between them that allows the physical separation between different tracks to remember that no overlap, but this can not be related to the size of the brain as dimensions. In the taxi drivers had already been checked, for example, as some areas in the hippocampus were more developed.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 10, 2014                         n°:   2569      

Internet to alleviate elderly loneliness

A report indicates that eight hundred thousand elderly people in England suffer from loneliness and receive one visit per month or less by their families therefore suggests that a simple connection to the Internet could alleviate their sense of isolation even though some point out how to provide a computer or a tablet to surf the web can not be a solution to this problem, then would need to have a user-friendly technology and applications readily available since the elderly have some difficulty to become familiar with these media even if they prove to be amazed by the new type of contact possibilities provided by the Internet. Previous investigations showed how it was useful for seniors learn to use computers to train the brain and prevent degenerative diseases as well as being an interesting moment of leisure for people often lonely.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 04, 2014                         n°:   2564      

A memory of the First World War

To exactly a century after the beginning of World War I because of the attack in Sarajevo (according to some city where the clocks in temples marked four different hours) at the expense of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and wife of the Serb irredentist Gavrilo Prìncip who was as the spark that exploded the conflicts for which were from time stockpiling weapons of weapons of all kinds, to remember the use for the first time on a large scale of chemical agents and toxic gases, despite having been banned already in 1899 in a conference in Hague, and so consequently the appearance of gas masks for defense. These chemical weapons that caused suffocation, convulsions, blisters, and skin necrosis were generically called mustard gas for the characteristic odor of mustard or yperite from Ypres town in Belgium where the Germans used them in a massive way violating every convention.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 28, 2014                         n°:   2559      

Techniques to better identify the vegetative state

Many patients in a vegetative state are subjected to tests that do not allow to detect effectively if it is a persistent or reversible condition, so researchers in Belgium have developed a new method that allows to monitor glucose levels in different areas of the brain through a scanner that detects the radiation of active molecules injected into the blood, so it will be possible to medical personnel and family members of patients in a vegetative state to understand whether it is appropriate to use support vector machines for life. A person in a coma might unconsciously perceive some information of the external environment and the levels of glucose in specific areas of the brain show whether it is possible to practice some form of rehabilitation in small steps to avoid those cases where it is decided, with great sadness for family and friends, to disconnect the life equipment.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 18, 2014                         n°:   2550      

A drone to save those who are drowning

Equipping a drone with buoy, night vision camera and to detect heat, gyroscope and GPS, an Iranian inventor would have developed an effective prototype to help save people who are drowning such as happens every year in the Caspian Sea (according to official figures would be eleven hundred the victims drowned in four years); therefore, an instrument remotely operated to bring relief to people in need instead of one of destruction as the record more often describes with gruesome details. This drone has been shown to have high visibility and maneuverability and the designer is already working on improved versions with lifebuoy which inflate automatically, solar batteries and instrumentation for scanning wide-ranging the coast even if it is required in the final phase of rescue the human intervention to carry out a successful operation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 12, 2014                         n°:   2545      

Activate or erase the memory in the brain

A study still in the experimental stage would have shown that in theory could be possible in the future to manipulate memory and some emotions by using pulses of light, directing them to specific areas of the brain and then erase the memories or activate them in order to strengthen or weaken the connections of the synapses (at least in questionable experiments on guinea pigs); moreover this technique could be useful for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases or problems of the memory in the brain. The analysis would have shown chemical changes in areas under stimulation pulses of light optics thereby demonstrating the reinforcement of synapses and it is also possible to erase the memory with a series of pulses at low frequency and then turn it back on with a series of high-frequency This would mean for example, open a new avenue for the treatment of trauma to the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 06, 2014                         n°:   2540      

Children typically inattentive to the calls

Often we see that children are typically inattentive to the calls of parents and educators like do not just hear them even if they try to raise their voice, almost did not exist, and this attitude according to a study by British researchers could derive from a kind of blindness of the attention that comes from the fact that they are very focused on other activities. In children the primary visual cortex has yet to develop and this could explain that feature sassy inattention (in part similar as attitude in the case of kids), which also has implications in terms of security, since for example if a child is raising the zipper of his coat while crossing the street might not notice the arrival of a car as opposed to an adult who manage to perform quite easily the two tasks.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 26, 2014                         n°:   2530      

Layered structure for the Ganymede satellite

According to the observations of astronomers Ganymede is one of the five satellites in the solar system that could have oceans hidden beneath the icy surface and it is assumed that there might be a kind of layered structure due to the significant effect of salinity over the oceans, and then to a first frozen layer on the surface follows a water layer, then a second layer followed again by iced water, a third layer frozen and finally a layer of water above a deeper rocky seafloor. It is estimated that Ganymede which orbits the large gaseous Jupiter planet can have twenty times the volume of Earth's oceans with a depth of eight hundred kilometers and since it is thought that the first forms of life on Earth were formed by thermal bubbles escaping from the bottom of the oceans by the interaction of water and rock, by analogy Ganymede might have the same favorable conditions.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 08, 2014                         n°:   2514      

Memories of the past and recent shipwrecks

Usually we think the historical image of the captain of a sinking ship for some misadventure that remains at the helm and bravely tries to save as many passengers as possible, but lately it seems that this figure is almost novelistic changed with recent cases of commanders of ferry and cruise ship fleeing ordering to the passengers sinking remain in place or who do not care much about the fate of the crew after reckless maneuvers. The story such as the ferry sank in South Korea has forced the authorities to severely judge the actions of the commander which delayed the evacuation order or at least to wear life jackets that would allow to save many lives; meanwhile are more than one hundred and fifty the bodies recovered from the hull with no clear figures about the number of passengers and different versions on the dynamics of the accident.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 25, 2014                         n°:   2504      

Differences in the brains of artists

By comparing the brain scans of some art students with those of non artists, researchers have found an increase of neurons in areas used for motor movements and the spatial visualization, and then the artistic talent and creativity could be innate, even if the exercise remains a fundamental key component to improve the artistic skills. In the artists the regions of the brain that control motor performance with precision of the so-called procedural memory in the parietal lobe seem more developed allowing considerable flexibility; moreover the common notion that artists use in a greater extent the lobes of the right side of the brain do not appear to be true, since in both structures left and right was noted an increase in the gray matter rich in neurons and of the white used for the links.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 18, 2014                         n°:   2499      

Facial expressions and emotions

The classic facial expressions from time identified as happiness, sadness, surprise, anger, disgust and fear would be just some of the twenty-one emotions that arise in the brain, at least from what appears to be an American survey carried out by photographing the faces of two hundred and thirty volunteers comparing face shapes and reactions, such as a happy surprise, after warnings that they were going to have some unexpected news or to the opposite of disgust in reaction to a bad smell, then is proceeded to analyze the individual facial expressions to identify the muscles activated in detail. There would be various combinations of muscles which identify the emotions found watching for example the corners of the mouth and the upper edges of the eyes, moreover these small variations could be useful for diagnosing psychopathology in which the facial expressions no longer meet the criteria of uniformity in the subjects.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 04, 2014                         n°:   2487      

Locate gravitational waves

As happens to waves that propagate into the water at a specific point in space of weak gravitational waves, ripples primordial, propagate at the speed of light in the universe and astronomers with a radio telescope at the South Pole have identified these waves crossing the space and help to give an explanation to the theory of expansion of the Universe and also to that of Einstein's theory of general relativity, published in 1915. In the first moments of the universe would have caused a massive explosion known as cosmic inflation (like a balloon that is inflated) so fast with gravitational waves that remain as evidence of a kind of primitive tremor. Other theories that have not yet been proven as one of the "superstrings", but that by now seem more plausible, pose questions about the Cosmo model based on the Big Bang.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 18, 2014                         n°:   2472      

Elephants are able to compare the human voices

By recording the voice of men, women and children Masai researchers were able to see how elephants are able to recognize the different voices and usually show frightened when they hear the Masai man, then even if try to change this voice acting on the speed of the recording so that it looks like that of a woman elephants continue to recognize it as that of a man showing to have a special ability and different from the common to identify the male from the female gender. Previously it had been verified that the elephants could distinguish the roar of a lioness from the lion which represents a greater danger to them and now it has been verified that this happens even if the recorded voice of a man is that of a Kamba or of a Masai, showing sensitive (for example changing direction) even to their smell and the red color of their clothes.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 15, 2014                         n°:   2470      

Events that recall the Sevastopol stories of Tolstoy

Declarations of threat typical of belligerent nations for control of the Crimea recall the memory the "Tales of Sevastopol" a well-known autobiographical book by Lev Tolstoy (1828-1910) wrote in 1854-1855 while serving as a young officer in Sevastopol and describing for the first time with the rawness events related to the war, and in a figurative way of all the wars, without hiding the sense of death and devastation, but at the same time drawing almost heroic figures in misfortune. This book is characterized by the typical Tolstoyan realism, can also be considered as a historical document with precise description of the events and the state of mind of the various participants, and then contributed to the subsequent maturation of some concepts of the great writer as the contradiction seen in individuals of the same religion who kill without mercy, causing suffering also in the families.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 03, 2014                         n°:   2459      

An ancient zircon to the study

It is estimated that the Earth was formed about four and a half billion years ago and the discovery of an ancient zircon in Australia dating with the technique of radiocarbon probably one hundred and sixty million years later suggests that life on the planet could be started earlier than expected since the earth's crust would have cooled quickly in this way allowing to support the oceans and then perhaps life forms at the microbial level. This zircon is not a gemstone or attractive and measures just two hundred to four hundred microns (twice the cross section of a human hair, visible on the palm of the hand without magnifying glass), but it has a value for geologists for the study that have also used a particular tomography able to identify individual lead atoms in the crystalline structure so as to determine the mass, and then proceed to estimate the approximate age.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 26, 2014                         n°:   2455      

The stressed elephants console each other

That elephants are intelligent and sensitive animals is well known and now a study of twenty-six Asian elephants kept in captivity in Thailand and lasted for almost a year would have shown that if are stressed these pachyderms seek physical contact as to console with "typically human" gestures, since it was noted in one of cases as they work alongside an elephant's and rested the trunk on his head and near the mouth of fellow sufferer even uttering verses to sound calm and give signal for help. This attitude may stem from the fact that elephants have a strong social organization and tend to maintain the cohesion with attitudes that promote collaboration among the animals of the group, and this had already been clearly shown in the case of mothers that lost the baby or unable to protect it from predators.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 19, 2014                         n°:   2449      

Women more penalized than men after a stroke

The hopes of survival after a stroke are improved compared to a decade ago, and a greater number of individuals who may benefit from appropriate targeted prevention and care is able to recover a good quality of life, but women appear to be more penalized than the men and suffer in greater proportion for pain, depression, anxiety, and difficulty in mobility, perhaps because they are affected by stroke in older age and therefore have less chance of spontaneous recovery. In particular, women lose more muscle mass than men after a stroke and this causes a deterioration in the quality of life, as well as discomfort and low mood, whereas often they are people who live alone and then the researchers argue that support post-stroke in these cases should be more accurate using tools and treatments that allow a good recovery.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 10, 2014                         n°:   2441      

DDT perhaps among the cause of Alzheimer's

In the human organism the DDT molecule degrades to DDE and comparing blood samples of patients suffering from Alzheimer's with that of healthy individuals researchers have found levels of DDE almost four times higher, but at the same time has been verified as some healthy person have high levels of DDE and some with Alzheimer low and therefore it is not clear what the mechanism of action even if think that the pesticide chemical components are responsible for the formation of plaques of amyloid protein in the brain and resulting in the death of brain cells. Despite the use of DDT is banned for decades is still widely used, especially in developing countries to combat malaria, but these chemical compounds persist in the environment whereas there are several alternatives such as pyrethrum extract over a healthy preventive reclaim of lands.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 30, 2014                         n°:   2431      

New hypotheses on the construction of the pyramids

The pyramids are among the monuments of antiquity which have attracted the attention of researchers since they are still largely unknown the construction techniques used over four thousand six hundred years ago for these architectures of exceptional size and now a new hypothesis in contrast was proposal, in fact, are thought to have been built from the inside to outside with small ramps growing inside by placing smaller stones resulting from the processing of large blocks of seats outside with a coating of limestone in defense of the strong thermal oscillation typical of the desert. With regard to the labor used the researchers from long time realized that it was specialized teams and not of slaves, in addition, workers who had an accident at work were treated with the best medical therapies known that in some cases are of unexpected modernity.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 17, 2014                         n°:   2420      

The first programming languages

A computer without software is virtually unusable and in order to realize the applications that the computer can process must provide the microprocessor a long list of information in a series of binary digits (1 switched on and 0 switched off, for example 01001010 or 01010001), called machine language almost impossible to be normally used for this in 1954 the programmers have thought of putting in place a quite understandable language called Fortran or Formula translator the first high-level language and then of the same type of symbolic languages still used. The ability to easily write programs to solve by the computer has allowed a remarkable development of the information technology and applications of every type, but also caused the proliferation of a babel of languages generally designed for specific areas each with its own dedicated compiler for translated into binary.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 11, 2014                         n°:   2415      

Vitamin E against the progression of Alzheimer's

Administering two thousand international units and then two grams per day of vitamin E (alpha tocopherol, fat-soluble, thermostable and antioxidant) to elderly individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease researchers have detected a slowing in the progression of a nineteen percent each year in comparison to placebo in patients who had mild or moderate degenerative disease while also reducing the workload for those who must assist people who are often poorly managed and in need of continuing support. There wouldn’t be an increase in mortality for the treatment with vitamin E and the annual mortality rate is slightly higher with placebo, at least from the results of this study, which argues that it is also cheap and easy to put into practice. Previous research had shown that vitamin supplements could be harmful, and it was preferable to abound with fruit and vegetables.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 02, 2014                         n°:   2407      

Arguments against the evidence

Many individuals around the globe apparently still show skepticism about climate change taking place on the planet and for example in relation to rising sea level does not think it is appropriate to design coastal protection works, or that the streets and the houses on the coastline will have to be built higher up also saw the higher costs, obviously not calculating the cost of maintenance of works more exposed to degrading of the sea and storms become more frequent. As for the lack of evidence on the rise of the sea level have to remember that can already find about thirty centimeters more than in 1900 even without taking into account the forward-looking statements, in addition, show a clear erosion famous beaches or in some cases would almost completely disappeared if he had not proceeded to bring the sand with often impressive dredging.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 17, 2013                         n°:   2395      

Investigation of connections in the brain for dyslexia

Using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to highlight the nerve connections in the brains of dyslexic individuals by comparing the results with normal people researchers have found that the phonetic representation was perfectly intact, at least as the result of a study carried out in Belgium that has identified the connections in the brain the possible cause of the disorder that affects ten percent of the world's population and causes reading difficulties, problems in the ability of language and to learning. Dyslexia is attributable to dysfunction in areas of the connections between the frontal and temporal language that prevent efficient access to phonetic representations that would apparently normal (although on this point other studies find a lower fidelity), and then as the worst connections are the less skills such as reading and language.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 10, 2013                         n°:   2389      

Observation of celestial bodies in the sky

The news that a comet observed for the event billed as spectacular even for the ordinary observer to the naked eye has instead dissolved in its close passage near the Sun is reminiscent of other events of the past that have inspired important writings, for example in 1604 between 9 and October 10 eyes of astronomers trying to see the celestial conjunction of Jupiter, Saturn and Mars and so their approach, but at some point appear watched with amazement a celestial body that became quite bright and then disappear. Following this discovery, Galileo decided to write an ironic dialogue using a pseudonym for precaution when already questioned some astronomical positions of the time that dominated the conception of the "fixed stars, perfect and of eternal motion", because obviously not to be so fixed if they could appear and disappear suddenly.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 30, 2013                         n°:   2381      

Investigations on Alzheimer's disease

Degenerative diseases are among the most debilitating including especially the Alzheimer's disease that affects more and more frequently a large number of individuals around the globe and continue the investigation to identify what are the causes, first of all at genetic level with the discovery of eleven new genes by comparing the data of a large number of elderly volunteers with those of healthy people, in addition, researchers have identified also in the loss of neurons in the cells of the retina a sign in the diagnosis of disease progression. The retina being a direct extension of the brain may in some cases indicate what his state of health, so in theory even for degenerative diseases one need only of a simple visual examination of the retina with a scan through tomography that reveals for example the thickness, but these studies (carried out on mice) have yet to be confirmed.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 15, 2013                         n°:   2368      

Laser treatment for Alzheimer's

The traditional treatments for Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson sometimes using medicines with chemical bases that may be harmful to the patient, but with a technique that uses a laser to multi-photons according to the researchers should be possible to identify the aggregates of amyloid protein that in case of Alzheimer's are usually designated as responsible for a degenerative process that slowly erases all memories of life in addition to preventing a normal relation life. Using light laser for this photoacoustic therapy should also be possible to avoid damage to the delicate deep structures of the brain and selectively act on only those who actually need care even in cases of Parkinson's and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (that for the abnormal effects in cows some call "little respectfully mad cow disease").

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 04, 2013                         n°:   2358      

Best women than men to do many tasks

That women are very adept at handling various tasks with ease is fairly well known, and actually comparing one hundred and twenty women and many men in the computer tests would have been highlight these differences, at least from the results of a British study that has also tried to verify the ability organizational pressure on women in the common search tasks, for example on a map and then work related phone calls compared to men, a bit as "common knowledge" were embarrassed and confused. These differences may be important in the work carried out in the office where require to do several actions at the same time without making mistakes, but previous studies observed that in general it is better to concentrate and focus all attention on a single action to improve the performance and then move in quickly with commitment on another without making too distracted brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 28, 2013                         n°:   2353      

Elephants would be able to understand gestures

Using domesticated elephants in Zimbabwe but not trained to recognize human gestures, apart from some voice commands, researchers have tested the ability of understanding between two equal buckets one in which a reward was hidden by the indication given by the man with one hand as if they were able to interpret the language of the human body naturally and this feature was previously not been found in chimpanzees that are primates even close to man on the evolutionary plan. Previous studies have shown that African elephants were trying to protect their young from predators in the pack with specific strategies and in the case of a mother lost the young the whole group seemed to take part in the unpleasant event showing feelings such as compassion, then occurred that the mother not want to leave the young lost and remained for a long time to watch over.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 12, 2013                         n°:   2339      

Dolphins perhaps less intelligent than expected

For a custom not justified we tend to describe dolphins such as very intelligent animals, swimming elegant and able to quickly learn from an instructor, but in reality from new studies do not seem to be smarter than other animals who may be deemed to be a bit stupid like chickens that instead demonstrate a complex life in large groups and their heart rate increases when they feel that a family member is suffering as well as having imagination of future events and warn the group of potential hazards or if they find food resources. It is probably also exaggerated the communicative capacity of dolphin that was found to slow down the recording of series of pops and whistles emitted from the cute mammals, also apparently the structure of their brain is quite simple, however they have good ability to relate to other animals.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 01, 2013                         n°:   2329      

Batteries powered by microbes eat rubbish

There are in the nature of microbes called "eat rubbish" able to degrade the waste in landfills and turn them into organic material, then it seems there are microbes bio-generators capable of converting energy into the remains of plants and animals digesting so that the Researchers have been able to develop a battery by plugging in a bottle to the pole conductive negative (cathode) of carbon colonies of microbes digesting the waste have begun to flow up the electrons to the positive pole (anode) of silver oxide that becomes silver producing electricity. For the moment, given the high cost of silver the use of these biological batteries on a large scale is still not convenient but are looking for cheaper materials that can replace it and put on the market devices with energy efficiency of about a thirty percent and then comparable to the energy produced from the best photovoltaic panels.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 18, 2013                         n°:   2318      

Sleep helps the brain to repair itself

During sleep and in particular in the phase called REM in which the eyes move rapidly increases the production of myelin in the brain that functions as an insulator to enable the transmission of nerve messages, at least as shown by studies carried out on mice in which it was found that lack of sleep in addition to causing stress increases the activity of genes responsible for the cellular decay which for example may cause multiple sclerosis and degenerative diseases. In studies conducted in the past had already been found that REM would allow a greater recovery of the mental faculties during sleep, in fact, we usually say that is not so much the duration of sleep that allows a good recovery but the refreshing intensity, then we must consider that being organic functions and metabolism slowed down slightly modified the nervous system can repair itself more easily.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 05, 2013                         n°:   2307      

Poverty does not take correct decisions

To see how the state of poverty would affect the reasoning up to the individual condition and let him take correct decisions not connected to the lower brain performance a team of international researchers have examined the cycle of agricultural production of sugarcane in India, because farmers go through three different periods one considered quite poor at the beginning of the harvest, one of extreme poverty when the harvest was carried out without yet having received its gain and one of relative wealth at the end of the cycle in which the cognitive tests carried out on farmers would show better results. Should be taken into account by performing cognitive tests of other factors related to stress, nutrition, then the family context, but in general it has been noted by comparing two groups of people that the poor had difficulty making correct decisions to solve their financial situation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 31, 2013                         n°:   2303      

Explanations of near-death hallucinations

Many people who have experienced the so-called near-death experiences tell of seeing bright pictures and detailed, with real feelings that really seemed on the point of clinical death, and a study conducted with (questionable) electroencephalograms in guinea pigs have found that this phenomenon could be caused by an increase in high-frequency range of the waves in the brain caused by myocardial infarction, also connectable to subsequent connections in different brain areas and marked excitation of neurons. In the past already it had been assumed that the phenomena of near-death experiences were caused by changes in neuronal and hyperexcitement in areas of the brain that caused hallucinations, but this does not explain some testimonials from patients in clinical death which apparently seems to have been able to describe the events in different local to those in which they were hospitalized.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 14, 2013                         n°:   2289      

Imitate the cactus to separate water from oil

The cacti have the characteristic of being able to do condense the humidity of the surrounding ambience often of desert type on their thorns in order to get the water drop by drop essential for the survival and researchers, imitating this natural method, would seek to develop structures with conical tips as thorns but which in this case should serve to separate water from oil capturing minute droplets of hydrocarbons. The need for environmental protection agencies to find ways to purify water from oil could stimulate the construction of these structures, in the space of about a year, to work alongside with traditional technologies (which often use chemical solvents harmful to health). Previously a machine to separate the olive oil from the water and adapted to purify the dirty water of oil had been considered ill-suited for large hydrocarbon stains.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 09, 2013                         n°:   2285      

Resuscitation less damaging to the brain

When the brain receives more oxygen the brain cells immediately enter into suffering, but in less time than thought in the past and then with modern resuscitation techniques it is possible to revive a patient even after some time without neurological damage with correct treatments and protecting the brain when blood flow resumes and the same oxygen can become toxic to brain cells weakened also by the lack of nutrients. In recent years there have been many advances in resuscitation techniques such as with proper refrigeration and drugs that slow down cell degeneration and it is expected that in the near future it will be possible to revive a patient even though it's been a day of death. Previous studies advancing some doubt on new advanced machines for resuscitation even if the knowledge in this field continue to improve.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 31, 2013                         n°:   2277      

Delay retirement in order to preserve the mind

Comparing the data on the age of retirement of nearly four hundred and thirty thousand French workers and those of the degree of risk for any mental decline researchers have noted a decrease greater than three percent of dementias, and thus to preserve the faculties of the mind would be better to try to exploit as much as possible for not to run the risk of losing them, whereas in the globe thirty-five million people suffer from dementia, including Alzheimer's widespread. Staying active in old age is one of the most important factors to prevent mental decline and work can provide those stimuli useful to "train the brain" and also to improve the life expectancy with regard to the health of the organism, for example a person who delays the retirement of five years (the age of sixty-five instead of sixty) would have a fifteen percent less risk of suffering from dementia.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 16, 2013                         n°:   2264      

In vitro fertilization and mental disabilities

The majority of studies on in vitro fertilization, which made it possible to give birth to about five million children between 1978 and 2012, did not reveal any particular problems at the expense of health, but a search on the anonymous Swedish national register data has allowed to verify a small increase in the percentage of mentally disabled when using the traditional technique of fertilization and if is used the new procedures, this always small percentage increases significantly. In the traditional standard technique of fertilization takes place on a dish, whereas the techniques developed by now more than twenty years ago, especially for the cases of male infertility the fertilization is favored by a direct injection into the egg female. Would be required however further studies and data to verify if actually occurring mental disabilities in these children.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 05, 2013                         n°:   2254      

The plants also take advantage of quantum physics

To improve the efficiency of photosynthesis the plants would exploit quantum physics also reaping the "bright packages of photons" and channeling it into the cells for energy conversion, at least given the evidence from a study by Spanish researchers and other contributions in a fascinating and complex sector as that of quantum mechanics which presents aspects by logic not exactly intuitive, such as the superposition for which a particle can simultaneously occupy multiple positions and physical states. Directing a laser beam on a single molecule, it was possible to observe the reaction of coherence (in quantum physics) with which plants convert light energy into chemical energy with an efficiency of ninety percent. Some of quantum effects since now they were only observed at very low temperatures and other special conditions, but for the plants seems not would be necessary.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 24, 2013                         n°:   2244      

Ball hit with the head in the soccer unhealthy

In the soccer game the ball can reach high speeds of over eighty kilometers per hour and players can hit the ball with the head from six to twelve times in the course of a match and this can lead to damage to the brain, tear nerve degeneration and finally of brain function for repetitive trauma, at least from what appears to be an American study conducted using a type of technique with diffusion of images of a group of young people who had played soccer for an average of twenty-two years. Researchers have found microscopic changes in the connections between axons in the white matter of the brain measured by detecting the movement of water molecules in the axons. Further studies would be needed to verify, but it is clear that players should try to limit with head the ball these micro brain damage to the white matter localized in the temporal and occipital area of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 17, 2013                         n°:   2238      

Possible link between Parkinson's and iron levels

For Parkinson's disease are not yet effective treatments available and is possible only search to control the symptoms caused by the degeneration of neurons resulting in tremors in the limbs, and now Australian researchers have found a link between high levels of iron in the plasma and Parkinson's and in particular the accumulation of iron in some areas of the brain with the difficulty then of flow in the blood may be the cause of the disease. Take supplements based on iron would not be a solution (apart eat vegetable) for prevention from Parkinson although it seems from the first studies that a higher level of iron in the blood may have a protective function against the disease; in fact individuals with a gene that raises slightly the levels of serum iron were overall to lower-risk, then genetic abnormalities in the regulation of iron could cause the accumulation in specific areas of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 06, 2013                         n°:   2229      

Habits are stronger of the stress

Usually think that stress favors little health habits like eating more in a disorderly manner and unnecessary purchases, but a study conducted in California would have shown that people under psychological pressure also retain good habits to keep fit and those with gymnastics that those eating in a healthy way and not just those "bad". Apparently it would seem that the habits of an individual play a crucial role in the behavioral choices even if do not have the energy and motivation to carry out their actions in the best way due to stress, and could be more important if not have a lot of willpower to form good habits by repeating always the same routine every day, so consolidating habits will also be easier to adopt a healthy rhythm though stressed and under pressure.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 30, 2013                         n°:   2223      

Hypotheses on the formation of the Moon

Among the most reliable hypotheses on the origins of the Moon there would be that big of a celestial body that hit the Earth four and a half billion years ago, causing a disk of debris that later are thickened to form our satellite and the heat that is developed by the impact would evaporate hydrogen and other volatile elements giving the moon the appearance dry we see from the beginning. New analysis from both space missions that of lunar samples taken by the Apollo missions would have shown that traces of water remain on the surface and below that has as a particular fingerprint, which can be identified by the amount of hydrogen and deuterium (an isotope of the hydrogen, which has an extra neutron), and according to researchers the water could have come from a comet with high relative percentage of deuterium-hydrogen are and is thought for a high presence of carbonaceous chondrites.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 11, 2013                         n°:   2207      

Clenching the right fist to improve the memory

By conducting a test on fifty students with various tests of memory Americans researchers found that would clenching his fist of his right hand for ninety seconds improves the memory of words on a list, while tighten the left fist instead improve to remember what has been stored, but it is still in the early stages a study that would require functional magnetic resonance imaging to test the effects on the brain blood flow. Clenching the right fist activates the left hemisphere of the brain and should help to encode memories, and (in some kind of X connection) with the left fist to activate the right hemisphere used for the recall of memories, then, with the same mechanism is think that other abilities of the brain can be stimulated in this way, such as verbal skills, spatial abilities or memoy of images and places.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 26, 2013                         n°:   2195      

Parkinson's patients sometimes discriminated

Individuals Parkinson's patients often fail to well control the facial expressions and fluidity of language giving the impression of being drunk and for this risk to be unfairly discriminated, then with the worsening of the neurological condition all bodily movements are being undermined, with various tremors and rigidity that make any action difficult and painful at times so as to be isolated at work, ill-treated and even offended because not well understood in their discomfort. A survey indicated that could get some benefit from the symptoms of degenerative Parkinson's disease taking vitamin D supplements (which often has been verified a deficiency, however, without understand whether it is a consequence of the disease), verifying their effectiveness by comparison with a placebo, but only for individuals with a specific version of a vitamin D receptor gene.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 16, 2013                         n°:   2186      

Identified a genetic marker of Alzheimer's

In a study of more than twelve hundred persons American researchers were able to identify a genetic marker that increases a little in some individuals the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and a greater percentage for the possible risk of cognitive decline, it would be a mutation that modifies the proper growth of specific proteins called tau in the brain. The plaques formed by the phosphorylated tau would be the marker of the disease and the discovery of these new genes connected with Alzheimer's may allow the formulation of specific medicines and how to use them in a targeted way, considering that other genes potentially responsible for generative diseases were already under study. According to the researchers do not forget that lifestyle plays a vital role in preventing dementia, then should make also frequent tests to verify a good state of health.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 06, 2013                         n°:   2178      

Data of the Voyager-1 probe to the study

Analyzing the data concerning the distance of the Voyager-1 probe some researchers argue that it may be now, with its eighteen billion kilometers away from Earth, beyond the influence of the Sun even if not everyone agrees on this hypothesis and argue that it is still in the Solar System, in any case it is remarkable longevity of this human instrument of observation launched in 1977, but has a little ecological plutonium power source of energy that will run out in about a decade by turning off the board instrumentation. The spacecraft travels in a vacuum at a distance of over one hundred and twenty times that between the Earth and the Sun transmits signals employing sixteen hours to reach Earth, and the data concerning cosmic rays and power down of energetic particles at high intensity suggest it could be the edge (heliopause) of the Solar System.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 22, 2013                         n°:   2165      

Coming two comets visible to the naked eye

Every year we can see with telescopes several comets and from Thursday [07/03] we can see with the naked eye a comet that is approaching to the Sun, and in November another comet could put on a show with his long tail lit by sunlight; in fact comet comes from the Greek kometes which means star (head), with long hair and the hair should be a kind of "dirty snowball" that would be a core of ice formed by frozen water, methane, ammonia and cyanogen gas mixed with mineral matter that sublimate when the celestial body is closer to the Sun and the gas in this way also drag of the dust particles that reflect the sunlight. Is thought that the comets can be captured by the planet Jupiter and the motion becomes from parabolic to elliptical, the tail is form from ionized material of the crown pushed away from the electromagnetic and corpuscular radiation of the Sun.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 05, 2013                         n°:   2150      

A small asteroid passes close to the Earth

According to astronomers' calculations a small asteroid called 2012 DA14 (acronym derived from the date of discovery) of about forty-five meters should pass in the evening close to the Earth at a distance less than that of normal communication satellites, but there would be no danger of impact and even the possibility to see with the naked eye both because of its small size and the high speed type projectile - [apparently no relation to the meteor shower in the Urals which wounded about one thousand people]. It is thought that the origin of the asteroids comes from small rocky bodies that have not been aggregated to form a planet between Mars and Jupiter. To observe this object with powerful telescopes will give astronomers important information about these heavenly bodies that can in theory also hit the Earth, as has happened in Siberia in 1908 near the Tunguska River where the forest was destroyed perhaps by a meteorite or a comet causing a particular phenomenon never fully understood.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 15, 2013                         n°:   2135      

Shocking electroshock therapy

The news that in Italy the electroshock is often the first treatment adopted for psychiatric patients instead of being the last after psychotherapy and appropriate medication poses a question on the knowledge of the most advanced technologies available, since the passage of alternating current in the brain that causes spasms of epileptic type does not appear to be a health treatment. The electroshock invented by psychiatrists Bini and Cerletti has been widely used after the World War II until about 1960, but after the discovery of neurotransmitters have been developed medicines that combined with behavioral therapies have enabled to avoid the use of electric shocks and now there are methods of treatment based on groups of listening and socialization that help to minimize the use of medications that almost always have serious side effects that sometimes occur only after many years.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 08, 2013                         n°:   2129      

The first computers with liquid crystal display

In 1983 it was possible to place on the market a truly portable computer through the use of a small liquid crystal display which allowed to reduce the space occupied by the cathode ray tube and then with the advance of technology over the years to improve the vision of the data processed by graphics cards with considerable computing power so can also play movies. An LCD screen is made up of several polarized layers within the liquid crystals arranged in grooves that if paths by an electric field block the passage of light forming a sort of grid allowing to display the pixels, then to change the color using one or more transistors, and this type of technology to be developed has prompted the study of many researchers (starting from Arago, Biot, Fresnel, Brewster..) including the botanical Reinitzer that in 1888 identified the characteristics of Cholesteril-benzoate, that O. Lehman called "living crystal".

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 30, 2013                         n°:   2121      

Neanderthals probably more intelligent than sapiens

Among the reasons cited for trying to resurrect a Neanderthal with the "unethical" artificial insemination [24/01 - is speak only to theoretical level] there would be a greater intelligence arising from a hypothetical skull larger than Homo sapiens and the opportunity to study variants resistant to virus and other potential threats to life, but for some time the science has shown that some parts of our genome are already the result of hybridization with Neanderthals and Denisova. Now rebuilding and uniting intact fragments of DNA derived from bone remains up to about a million years ago, we can get the entire genetic heritage as for example of a human ancestor and then using techniques widely tested (some call questionable, unsafe and among the other banned in many countries) will be able to bring it back to life by cloning and then examine the characteristics and any further resistance to epidemics.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 22, 2013                         n°:   2114      

Pressure controlled to prevent dementia

In a study conducted in Hawaii only on Japanese-American ethnic men would have been assuming that the common medications to lower blood pressure such as beta blockers can reduce the risk of dementia, but since still need for research on a large scale is not appropriate to make this type of treatment even if the first results would seem attractive. For cause of the high blood pressure that can damage the small blood vessels supplying of the brain and the resulting lack of oxygen and nutrients causes suffering in the cells, and then hold pressure under control can help prevent degenerative diseases such as dementia and partly the Alzheimer's and it seems at first glance results the beta blockers (also considering factors among other minor abnormalities in the brain) can have a better effect than other medicine treatments of equivalent type.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 09, 2013                         n°:   2103      

The first electric motors

In a time when it is increasingly common use of electric motors for automotive vehicles, especially for non-polluting public initiatives should be remembered that the first experiments with DC motors were made by Antonio Pacinotti (Pisa 1841 - 1912 there) physical and astronomer, inventor of the famous "little machine" preserved in Pisa in the pacinottiano museum. The armature or rotor that serves as both of dynamo as of electric motor is called precisely Pacinotti ring, is made of soft iron to toroidal form with spiral windings with rotates around a central axis and has been developed in 1859, then the invention was also communicated to the Nuovo Cimento in 1865. During a stay in Paris Pacinotti illustrated the invention that uses a ring as a current generator to Z. Gramme that appropriated the patent for industrial purposes and were useless attempts to claim the discovery by the Italian physicist.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 27, 2012                         n°:   2092      

Asperger's can not be connected to violent behavior

According to experts, after examining a recent case of a massacre of children in a school made by a guy who maybe had a complex psychological picture there would be no clear link between violent forms of behavior and Asperger syndrome, which is defined as a species of disorder belonging to the sphere of autism, a developmental disorder of the mind which has varying degrees of severity from mild to severe, including Asperger's syndrome can be a rather mild and does not affect the language skills and reasoning. May have occurred in this case (at Newtown in America) other types of mental disorders and other types of constraints are not well identified, since in other cases have been noted different psychological profiles and personality types while individuals who suffer from Asperger syndrome are generally quite calm and respectful of the rules.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 19, 2012                         n°:   2086      

Birds that use cigarette butts in interlacing the nests

Studying the nests of sparrows and finches in Mexico City researchers have found an average of about ten cigarette butts found in interlacing branches of the nests, perhaps because the birds use them as natural pesticides against pests or simply to ensure the nest better isolation and further studies are needed to confirm analyzing the differences such for example as offering to the birds of cigarette butts from cigarettes intact is already smoked. Nicotine is a chemical compound used by plants of tobacco (and to imitation by man for agricultural purposes) to defend against insects that eat their leaves and the birds probably feeling the smell that emanates from cigarette butts sense that can be a good repellent against parasites, and in fact the researchers found that the nests built with more cigarette butts also had the feature to repel more insects.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 07, 2012                         n°:   2075      

Origins of the zero number

Following the decision in a big city to allow refueling only number plate to a shortage of supply of fuel was the announcement that could circulate in the odd days of only the last digit plates with an odd number and vice versa, even or with zero number, as if to make a difference between even numbers and zero, while for mathematicians generally argue that it is an even number, but the common perception seems not so obvious. The discovery of the zero mark should of the Indians (about 500 AD) then after a few centuries was also adopted by the Arabs (the term "sifr" from which "cifra-figure") who spread use in Europe in 1202 through the dissemination of the "Liber abbaci" by Leonardo Fibonacci. Zero is a symbol without clear meaning and the mathematician G. Peano places him among the primitive concepts: "is a number", but there are many different interpretations of the question.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 03, 2012                         n°:   2071      

Smoking during pregnancy affect reading of children

Analyzing the reading skills of over five thousand children born from women who smoked more than a pack a day during pregnancy in a joint study by U.S. and Canadian researchers have found that the speed of reading, letter recognition, accuracy and understanding of words and phrases was twenty-one percent lower than the children of non-smoking mothers. In tests carried out in two phases on children of seven years and then nine placed in a class of thirty-one children to identify the qualities of reading accuracy and comprehension skills in the children of smokers were a level seven times less than an average rating (in a critical period for cognitive and mental development of children). Other studies have shown that is not recommended to pregnant women taking alcohol even in small quantities as not to prejudice the mental faculties of children.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 21, 2012                         n°:   2061      

Communicate from a vegetative state

Following a car crash twelve years ago a Canadian patient remained in a vegetative state and after recovering from a coma he awoke, he opened his eyes without apparently to have the perception of himself and of the surrounding world, but at a long distance of time was able to communicate to the doctors who did not feel any pain using the fMRI brain scan with it was possible to check the areas of the brain that were actually activated. It would be the first time that a patient in a vegetative state with a serious cognitive impairment has been shown to provide clinically relevant answers, so it can rewrite the medical literature in this sector (although there are negative opinions on the fact that it is a true state vegetative). The relatives of the patient stated that he could communicate by moving a little the thumb and the eyes, without considered valid by doctors regarded these types of messages.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 14, 2012                         n°:   2055      

An enzyme responsible of Alzheimer's disease

To reduce the accumulation and the production of beta amyloid plaque regarded as a pathological marker of Alzheimer's disease is possible to proceed to inactivation of the enzyme Monoacylglycerol lipase, at least from what results from a study carried out by American researchers; furthermore, inhibition of this enzyme attenuates inflammation of nerve cells and improving the plasticity of the consequences memory skills and learning preventing neurodegeneration. A research carried out previously shown that elderly patients had to make a slight exercise several times a week (as a simple walk), could be useful by providing oxygen to the bloodstream from training favored limiting the levels of aging can also cause nervous a slight shrinkage of the brain or damage some areas.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 05, 2012                         n°:   2047      

Remains of Petra studied by archaeologists

The city of Petra is one of the wonders of the antiquity with its famous ruins that date back to a period after the end of the Nabataean kingdom (around 105 AD), and now a team of archaeologists is setting up a show with studies on construction techniques of the temples , irrigation systems in the desert, the heating in the houses also recalling the discovery of the site in 1812, made by the Swiss explorer J.L. Burckhardt. The city was supposed to be a kind of oasis irrigated form gardens, streets adorned with temples and houses with luxurious marble from Turkey, while for the nutrition were found amphorae of wine of the island of Rhodes and the remains of the fish of the Red Sea. The city's wealth was derived from the location into which flowed the caravan routes of spices testified by the beautiful temples carved into the rock with a distinctive style made with an overlapping of orders that "anticipate" Baroque type solutions.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 22, 2012                         n°:   2035      

Prevent mental decline with acetylsalicylic acid

A study monitoring for five years the mental abilities of about five hundred women between the ages of seventy and ninety-two years at high risk of cardiovascular disease have found that those who took a daily dose of acetylsalicylic acid showed less mental decline of women that not taking; but were not noticed variations in the percentage of diseases related to dementia. In Sweden it seems it is not usual to give medicines containing acetylsalicylic acid (which may have significant contraindications) in women at high risk of heart disease and therefore the researchers were able to take advantage of a control group for the various mental tests of orientation and spatial that are used to verify mental abilities, and so it was possible to control how important cardiovascular health for cognitive skills and prevent mental decline.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 08, 2012                         n°:   2022      

Skin cells that become immature brain cells

The direct conversion of epithelial cells to neural precursors would be carried out in New Zealand without having to go through the conversion phase in embryonic stem cells, and indeed the new technique can significantly speed up the time to get these immature brain cells useful for potential treatment of neurodegenerative diseases. In theory is possible take skin cells from suffering patient of neurological diseases connected to genetics and turn them into brain cells to use for replacements or new types of care; in addition, will be easier to understand in more detail what are the steps that lead to diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and Huntingtons. For to reprogram skin cells have been used only two genes and the direct conversion in immature brain cells also allowed to avoid the formation of any tumors, and other risks associated with these techniques.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 29, 2012                         n°:   2015      

Headache annoying for abuse of painkillers

Suffer from frequent headaches, it could lead the patient to abuse of painkillers with the effect of causing a kind of vicious circle in which the headache becomes increasingly loud and annoying, almost incurable also administering large doses of medication, and the cause of this unhealthy effect of the various analgesic molecules used is not very clear, but it is evident that it is useless to insist with medication in these cases and it is preferable to suffer also for one month in order to verify if the headache decreases. Some people are genetically predisposed to suffer from headaches or that kind of cyclical mechanism that leads to the abuse of pain medication and should also take into account other types of treatment, then estimating the patient's family history can schedule preventive methods or relaxation techniques to avoid the various problems occur.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 22, 2012                         n°:   2009      

Identified early indicators of Parkinson's

Using advanced neurological imaging to control the first cognitive symptoms that cause small changes in the brains of New Zealand researchers would be able to identify in the thalamus of the differences in architectures that may be responsible for Parkinson's disease and thus make it easier procedures because the symptoms are identified clinically in patients. To verify this type of cellular degeneration before of this new technique was necessary to proceed with the autopsy, but now with the patient in life is possible to study the structures at the center of the brain that are similar to the other, and then were used mathematical algorithms for segmented into smaller pieces to be analyzed further. It is necessary to intervene in the early stages of the disease in order to provide treatments that improve the quality of life of patients for a disease for now not yet curable.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 10, 2012                         n°:   1997      

Bans on incandescent bulbs

Incandescent bulbs waste about ninety-five percent of the energy used and therefore now entered into force from a couple of days the ban on the sale to the public for all formats including those from 25 to 40 watts, thus decreeing the end of time linked to one of the most beautiful inventions of humanity, but with little ecological implications. The bulb has been developed since 1845 by Joseph Wilson Swan (Sunderland 1828 - 1914 Surrey) first without vacuum in the bulb, then in 1878 (a year before Edison with whom he later became associated) with a strip of cardboard charred improved its duration, in 1888 invented the bayonet plug, and then in a different sector in 1862 also the carbon paper. Thomas Alva Edison perfected the pump to create the vacuum in the bulb and the filament of platinum already developed by W. De la Rue in 1820 with improvements made on the Davy arc lamps.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 03, 2012                         n°:   1991      

Migraine in women is not linked to dementia

In a study carried out by dividing data on the health condition of many women into four groups, which respectively had or no had headaches, and then the frequent cases of headache with or without aura, the researchers checked with the cognitive tests within two years the collection of information that there would be dementia or cognitive decline in women suffering from intense pain and headaches. It seems that women are more likely (about three times) than men to have debilitating headaches and past studies were not large enough to demonstrate a possible link with cognitive decline or dementia, but now the conclusion of the various tests do not highlight unhealthy relationships in these cases with painful headaches, however, raises the possibility of a genetic cause due to a variants of specific genes, including one already associated with an increased risk of epilepsy.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 14, 2012                         n°:   1975      

Caffeine to help movement in cases of Parkinson's

Comparing two groups of individuals, one of which consists of patients suffering from Parkinson's disease which has been administered a dose of caffeine equivalent to two to four coffees per day for six weeks and another control group in which the dose was a simple placebo was noticed an improvement in motor function in people who were given the supplement of caffeine. The study would need to be performed on a large scale to be validated, but the earliest evidence found there would be an improvement in speed of movement and a reduction in the kind of typical stiffness characteristic of Parkinson's patients. Coffee drinking was linked with a lower risk of developing the disease and now it was also seen immediately, but we must consider that the caffeine present in different drinks can have serious side effects in some individuals.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 06, 2012                         n°:   1967      

Males more impulsive than females in mathematics

While the girls may have an advantage in primary schools by a slower and accurate approach to the proposed mathematical problems, the males would look better in the middle school and also beyond due to a more impulsive and fast approach which leads necessarily to commit more errors that with the time tends to decrease a little. The researchers say the girls provide an answer to the math questions quietly doing calculations mentally while boys respond more quickly to questions by invoking the corresponding answer calculation from memory, however, reveals not always exact, but the margin of error would decrease with advancing in studies. This type of differences between males and females in the ability to mathematical calculus may result from cultural attitude, social status and the from the way in which teachers adjust their teaching for the youths.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 30, 2012                         n°:   1961      

The sand grains of Archimedes

It might seem at first sight that the grains of sand are not countable, but Archimedes died ~ twenty-two hundred years ago in Syracuse in 212 BC did not give up to the evidence and in his work Sandstone resorting to measures of size available in his time he was able to calculate how many myriads of myriads of grains of sand would fill the sphere of the known world and the cosmos (in this case using the calculations of Aristarchus with heliocentric hypothesis). What then will be called the infinitesimal calculus was for the acute mind of the greek mathematical was a normal method of research relevant to his demonstration on measurements of the circle, the sphere, the cylinder.. and killed roughly and robbed by Romans seems that his tomb was recognizable because of the trace of a cylinder and a sphere to remember her studies. Times are always hard today and now the "rhetoricians" were also seized of the Socratic maieutic.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 20, 2012                         n°:   1953      

Pick up signals from brain of paralyzed individuals

Improving a technique used to capture with the functional magnetic resonance imaging the blood flow in the brain according for example a person paralyzed in the language think to respond affirmatively or negatively, the researchers have extended the capabilities of the scanner so that it can identify all the letters of the alphabet as in a keyboard including the space bar. In the case of patients in a vegetative state using this noninvasive technique is possible communicate only with a little effort also giving diagnostic possibilities and to establish a dialogue to understand what is state of health of the patient with neurological disorders. The new technology improves the quality of life of patients in persistent vegetative state and their family members; moreover will also be possible to improve future capabilities of the scanner of easily capture the various letters.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 07, 2012                         n°:   1941      

The animals do not only think but also make projects

The mental abilities of animals could be higher than estimated so far especially the primates, who share with the man most of the genes, and researchers have mapped the DNA of bonobos have verified that differs only by the 1.3 percent from that of humans (as already found in chimpanzees); moreover the monkeys might be able to think what other think and make long-term projects in preparation for next steps to prosecute. For example, in a test of orangutans and bonobos providing objects for which useful to take some food and then moving the animals in other areas also letting them sleep by passing a lot of time was tested for its ability to use exactly the objects to help get the food as if they had planned in advance to perform the mental operations to execute successively.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 27, 2012                         n°:   1932      

Protect individuals with mental disabilities

The living conditions of many individuals with mental health problems are getting worse gradually, according to international organizations that denounce the violation of human rights, poor quality of care and hygienic conditions in nursing homes often crowded and with decrepit buildings, where people are sometimes detained against their will, detained or placed in isolation for years without counting the cases of violence, abuse, risky and negligent treatment. Improving the standard of care for individuals with mental disabilities is essential to prevent the violation of human rights daily and optimize the type of treatment applied in the cases considered difficult. To signal note also that autistic children seem to have less access to specialized care than other children (such as with diabetes or asthma); moreover, care would be more expensive because they add a number of other disorders to treat.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 19, 2012                         n°:   1925      

Estimates of probable earthquakes in Italy

The fact that have broken two of the three faults included in the area affected by earthquakes in the Emilia-Romagna has led the researches to assume that the fault remained whole is destined to break with the risk that it can generate earthquakes of intensity equal to those previously recorded, but this consideration has a certain widespread panic among the authorities and the people living in the area that could be affected by a hypothetical earthquake (since many structures were built not according to seismic criteria). The faults that would have slotted slide down causing a lifting of the soil of more than ten centimeters and rise to the surface sand mixed with hot water and loose material, which cause phenomena of liquefaction of the soil, while in the meantime other small shocks were recorded and tremble even the Venetian pre-Alps.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 09, 2012                         n°:   1917      

Calculations of collisions between galaxies

From observations with the Hubble Space Telescope showed that the Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the speed of four hundred miles per hour to the Milky Way which is two and a half million light years of distance and is undoubtedly destined to collide first in four billion years and then to merge with our galaxy in six, but this does not necessarily mean that there will be some collision between the starrs of the two galaxies that should occupy different orbits turning around a new galactic center. In theory calculations simulated the solar system will be in danger of being destroyed and will simply another part of the galaxy in this very distant future in which the nebula of Andromeda considered sister of our will merge because of the action of the dark matter that seems to cause both the accelerating expansion of the universe is the approach of the two galaxies.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 02, 2012                         n°:   1911      

A memory for Falcone and Borsellino

It's been exactly twenty years since the damage at Capaci in Sicily to Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and escorts blown over by strong explosion triggered by a remote control that has devastated a section of motorway on which ran their cars, then a few months later Paolo Borsellino was killed in a bombing of mafia type in Palermo to which the magistrate would not miss (indeed it seems that have sacrificed himself to protect family members). Recently the attack, framed as terrorism, to the school "Morvillo Falcone" even if have not yet identified the perpetrators and not known targets of criminals has rekindled the memory of the danger of organizations that have shown unexpected connections with the State and its institutions, which for the rest had already been identified from the pool and emerged in a mafia maxi-legal action and subsequent surveys on this field. - [A man responsible of the attack have confessed.. still inquires].

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 23, 2012                         n°:   1902      

Transistors and microprocessors revolution

That sort of "revolution" in information technology has been achieved through the use of microprocessors containing thousands of transistors whose design is attributed to the Luxembourg engineer and writer Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) that besides the principle of radar operation described, in various scientific publications in America, the triode crystal in 1942 five years before its discovery (attributed to J. Bardeen, W.B. Shockley, and W.H. Brattain awarded with Nobel in 1956). Compared to vacuum tubes the transistors allow low spaces and consumption, moreover had a very long time in duration with really low productive cost and the microchips developed about forty years ago (for the PC) by a group of engineers working in various fields of design began to draw some kind of microscopic towns on silicon basis on which semiconductors were virtually printed with photo impression mechanisms.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 07, 2012                         n°:   1887      

Alcohol and effect on cortical centers

Many think that the intake of alcohol can have stimulant-like effects, favoring the expansiveness and vitality, but really we have a depression of cortical centers that high control memory, concentration and self-criticism than to intoxicate the body, which is why there are specialist therapies that aim to gradually decrease the amount of alcohol that the person ingests sometimes using medication support, and according to a French study it seems that even a painkiller for muscle may be useful in these cases. In small doses, alcohol is not harmful, the important thing is to drink less (preferably red wine rich in antioxidants) during meals thereby slowing down the absorption by the gastric mucosa and then perform physical activity that can utilize the energy caloric availability for the muscles also to avoid obesity and other health problems.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 23, 2012                         n°:   1877      

The baboons recognize the letters on a screen

After a training period, the baboons would be able to recognize words on a computer screen made up of four letters from the same groups made no sense, at least according to the results of a French study has also prepared with intense training a monkey to recognize more than three hundred words correctly demonstrating cognitive skills above the normal (with the typical differences observed between human intellectual performance). The recognition tests were performed by stimulating the desire of baboons to participate in the exercise thus increasing their level of attention, but more than language skills seems that the monkeys use the object recognition a bit as happen in natural environment to recognize objects. Baboons are social primates and of good nature of the Papio genus particularly common in Africa and then in Ethiopia up to part of Arabia.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 14, 2012                         n°:   1870      

Discussions on the treatment of autistic children

Following the presentation of reports on methods of care in the world for autistic children have emerged of the difficulties for families to find therapists or teachers able to cope with the problems that a type of still little known disease places in education, with countries like France who have not taken the behavioral therapy and continues to regard psychosis these disorders and in other countries also lack any organizational support that can provide some help to parents of children who should be followed carefully. An important component of the re-education path would seem to be a good "dose" of sympathy for the families who are often discriminated and break up, while it has been shown that in many cases if the disease in children with autism if is diagnosed in its early stages is possible to acquire large percentage of language skills and in communication.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 03, 2012                         n°:   1861      

Living alone and antidepressants

According to a Finnish study the people who live alone take many more antidepressants than those living in families, especially in cases of low quality of life, and the number of individuals alone appears to have doubled in many countries over the last three decades with peaks reaching levels of one person every three in country as England and United States that live (in a uncomfortable condition) this solitude. Previous studies have shown that live alone without bodily stimuli, intellectual or religious, which could compensate the lack of affection could provoke a number of disorders can be mild such as high blood pressure, insomnia, mild cognitive impairment up to typical reach those levels of depression that force to take unhealthy medication, but just generally exercise the imagination with a new fond activity to find some relief.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 24, 2012                         n°:   1853      

The first satellites for global communications

The signals a time traveled overseas only through of marine cables and in 1962 was possible through an active satellite (project "Telstar") equipped with suitable receiving equipment, amplifiers and transmitters allow telecommunications to large distances in the world even if it was feasible to reflect the signal in a passive way on satellites, but with consequent weak reception on the ground. A satellite is moving around a celestial body at a constant speed and height according to the laws of attraction for which two bodies attract each other with a force proportional to the product of their mass and inversely to the square of the distance; however, sometimes fall to the ground if the calculations are not performed properly, for example in January 1978, a satellite powered by a radioisotope reactor of the "Cosmos" series (the first was launched the 16 March 1962) fell on Canada spreading radioactive particles on the ground in the Manitoba area.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 16, 2012                         n°:   1846      

An instructive lesson from the Fukushima disaster

The number of mistakes made in the emergency management after the tsunami that swept away nearly an year ago the Japan and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant could provide according to the researchers an instructive lesson to improve the safety of other nuclear plants, especially in coastal areas that could suffer the same kind of damages in case of earthquakes and tsunamis, so for example being able to quickly restore the electricity, or even find fuel for transportation is very difficult without planning ahead. The supply of electricity and fuel assumes an accident that they are sheltered a whole series of structures (electricity pylons, bridges, roads..), then requires an organization able to perform the repairs; but in the case of Fukushima the structure was built almost at sea level, the emergency generators were not raised and the "plans" was careful to save money.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 09, 2012                         n°:   1839      

A specific work for children with Asperger syndrome

Individuals who have relationship problems for cause of Asperger's syndrome, which causes changes in some areas of the brain resulting in difficulty in interpreting the gestures, facial expressions and emotional states of the interlocutors may be employed in specially refined based on their characteristics for the moment for a Danish association often demonstrate since children above average skills in many fields, or special activities. The causes of the Asperger syndrome are not known, but it is assumed that may arise from a mixture of brain damage with biochemical changes and genetic factors that cause sometimes "bizarre" behaviors lacking the ability to recognize the jokes or the marked exaggerations, showing to the contrary perfectionist attitude and strong sense of criticism against incorrect attitudes that could cause misunderstanding in public.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 25, 2012                         n°:   1828      

Controlled mental decline

The differences between moderate symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment would have been filled because this last disorder would not be part of normal aging brain and in addition to reasoning and attention deficits cause lower levels of skills in spatial orientation and thus have problems to properly carry out daily activities. Not is said that a moderate cognitive impairment result in Alzheimer's disease and is possible run tests with neuroimaging as well as some samples to detect biomarkers in spinal fluid to be able to distinguish whether they are the first signs of degeneration of the brain with the formation of amyloid protein (even if in many cases the brain retains a good level of reasoning). Identify early in the disease may be important to begin making the cognitive rehabilitation treatments and to limit any troubles.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 08, 2012                         n°:   1813      

Words picked up by brain waves and reconstructed

Picking up electrical signals from the brain of patients who were thinking of the words the researchers were able to reconstruct the sounds of these words based on brain waves, and appropriately developed this technique could be useful to communicate with comatose patients or unable to well converse and to improve levels of communication and the lives of individuals with a wide range of deficits in this field. Several attempts and experiments were performed in the past to produce implants that allow to translate thought with sensors on the head with good results even if still needed further study and experimentation before being able to develop truly functional devices. One of the analyzed areas of the brain is the superior temporal gyrus through functional magnetic resonance imaging and then reconstructing these signals to the computer.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 02, 2012                         n°:   1807      

Do not forget the genocides and massacres

Studies in the past sought the causes for which were repeated in the history of massacres and unspeakable genocides that people seem not remember the agony that these events caused in the consciences of all (or the most sensitive), and investigators blamed this phenomenon to the natural mechanism that the brain tends to forget many of the memories stored and then despite individuals know what are the consequences of bloody wars cyclically repeating the same brutal violence. Make a list of murders, massacres and human cruelty is difficult without considering that the populations were massacred not only for reasons of power and exploitation of natural and human resources but also because of writings called "inspired", and then actually pass over silence many violence that have exceeded in atrocities the previous limits and in the future can not even remember them.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 27, 2012                         n°:   1802      

Young children imitate the facial movements

Depending on the age of the children to learn a language would look more the mouth that the eyes of the parents and according to American researchers after six months of age begin a sort of study of the movements of the mouth and tongue so can pronounce the syllables understandable after having first exercised by those with no meaning, but at one year of age look back to the eyes and focusing mainly on the mouth only in case of unknown or foreign words. Knowing the dynamics of this mechanism could be useful for understanding how the brain of young children to develop, whereas just a few distinguishing vowel sounds seem to improve the levels of learning and would also explain the ability to become bilingual for a greater "plasticity" of the brain that would tend to decrease gradually with the development.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 18, 2012                         n°:   1794      

Nicotine patches may help against dementia

The results of a small study for a period of six months of sixty-seven individuals with cognitive problems would be found that more than forty percent improved intellectual performance by applying patch that delivers nicotine, while the control group who were given a placebo got worse of over twenty percent; however, researchers still do not know whether the positive effects remain over long periods of time or if is a temporary improvement, and further studies are needed for confirmation. In the brain there would be receptors sensitive to nicotine and in patients suffering from memory problems and confusion due to Alzheimer's disease there may be a loss of these receptors and thus the researchers speculate that it may be useful to apply the patches of nicotine as prevention (but remembering how nicotine inhaled with cigarettes is harmful to the health and the brain).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 11, 2012                         n°:   1787      

Investments in research and innovation

The scientific research in some countries appears to be low compared to the demands of continuous technological innovation of products, for example in India famous for its computers programs products only a very small percentage of investment is designed to increase the skill of the "brains" who will study new solutions for more and more globalized productions. From a scientific conference held in the Indian state of Orissa authorities also want to double investment in innovation not to be outdated, considering the loss of competitiveness in spite of a complex system that allowed people to work in a continuous loop with other countries due to the large time difference time and the technology of the computer network. It should be noted that Italy was once a cutting-edge science is in the computers is in programs, at least before it was defined almost a street with no future.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 05, 2012                         n°:   1782      

Genocide of the Armenians to remember

A French resolution will punish those who refuse to recognize the historical reality of the genocide of Armenians took place between 1915 and 1917 by the Turkish government (which now claims to resort to measures of retaliation against this measure that hide other types of intent), with mass deportations that caused the diaspora of the Armenian people forced to flee in many countries from Egypt to Syria, from Georgia to America. Armenia is a plateau between the Aegean and Central Asia, where Greek settlers founded in 758 BC Sinope and Trebizond then first, after various dominations that have occurred over time of Persians, Romans, Arabs.. who could not make disappear the culture that has a strong ethnic identity, language and literature from 1909 onwards there was persecution and massacre of Armenians by the Turkish-Ottoman hands, one of the most reprehensible episodes in the history of the humanity.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 23, 2011                         n°:   1771      

Seen vanishing Higgs boson without confirmation

What many see as the basic subatomic particle to the structure of matter and then of the visible universe would caught a glimpse using the costly LHC near Geneva, although the description of the epochal in some ways resembles that recently heard [not true] for the neutrino faster of the light and then without confirmation that may assist in the discovery claim. Peter Higgs postulated in 1964 in a mental simulation of matter based on the calculation and collaboration with other physicists that there must be a particle that gave mass to the other with a "field of forces" (Higgs) explaining how the various particles should interact with each other, and this intuition is considered plausible and then by the Large Hadron Collider using big energy trying to put up huge statistics of collisions of particles that disappear quickly, but that can confirm the Higgs theories.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 14, 2011                         n°:   1762      

Archaeological site of Carthage to be protected

Carthage is one of the most important archaeological sites from the historical point of view and it seems that the speculation is threatening the proper preservation of the remains of the ancient Phoenician civilization, which in part dates back to around the ninth century BC since the city was destroyed by the Romans in 146 led by Cornelius Scipio in the war despite the strenuous defense of Asdrubal at the siege lasted three years. The city was founded by the inhabitants of Tyre on the current Gulf of Tunis in order to better control the trade of the Phoenicians on the Mediterranean dealing with conflicts before continuing with the Greeks and then by the Romans, but after many events lost their dominion over the sea. To facilitate the exchange of goods, the Phoenicians worked out a kind of writing styles which are considered as the basis of other cultures, moreover in Carthage there was a study center where many acute minds of antiquity were formed.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 07, 2011                         n°:   1756      

Alzheimer in underweight individuals

In individuals suffering from Alzheimer's among the signals that can be recognized the first symptoms of the disease there would also be the weight loss, at least according to a theory which would tend to link the deterioration of the hippocampus in the brain that regulate appetite and metabolism of bodies for cause of the disease and this is the reason why overweight elderly subjects was found a lower incidence of the disease. In middle-aged individuals who are overweight, according to previous studies, remains a greater risk of being affected by Alzheimer's, so this should not lead to thinking that there might be some protection in subjects with body mass index higher than normal (in a type of obesity paradox) and maintain a healthy weight is the best choice beyond of course to train the mind and the body constantly with appropriate "games" and physical exercises.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 24, 2011                         n°:   1745      

A diet to treat diabetes and research in the time

According to a British study a particularly drastic diet would be able to treat patients with diabetes type two and then it follows that one can not define a disease that lasts for all the life as it had been identified since the antiquity, in fact, descriptions of the effects of diabetes are already in an Egyptian papyrus and the greek doctor Aretaeus of Cappadocia (I° - II° century AD) made a detailed report of the symptoms of this disease, giving the name, and other chronic which has earned the nickname "second Hippocrates," since used the Hippocratic method for which the disease was caused by an interruption of the balance between solids, liquids and spirits. With regard to the discovery of insulin is due to the Canadian physiologist F. Banting in 1921 in collaboration with Best, Macleod and Collip did studies on the metabolism of carbohydrates and fats, which partly explains many of the physiologic mechanisms of the body.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 16, 2011                         n°:   1738      

Psychological consequences of natural events

Individuals forced to having to suffer damage due to uncontrollable natural events as well as having to cope with difficult situations could be subject to the psychological consequences, especially in the case of earthquakes, at least according to the results of an American study that has counted over seven hundred and sixty thousand victims in the first decade of the century due to earthquakes, which represent about sixty percent of deaths linked to the various disasters. The researchers argue that hurricanes and floods would cause fewer casualties than earthquakes, since for every victim statistics are three wounded without considering the psychological wounds (often in children) going on for years in subtle ways. Big cities like Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi would have been built close to the line split between large tectonic zones with possible significant risks for the population.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 07, 2011                         n°:   1730      

Study of meteorology and climate change

The first meteorological observations date back to the Sumerians and then the Greeks, especially Aristotle wrote a treatise on the subject much consulted by scientists, then Leonardo, Galileo and Torricelli built the first instruments for measuring atmospheric events, which later in 1653 for the initiative of Ferdinand II of Tuscany allowed to build a network of weather stations with eleven stations of detection. Following the discoveries related to the fundamental laws of gases, the theories on the circulation and the invention of the telegraph made possible more accurate observations with the ability to transmit data in real time to various weather stations. Regarding climate change, with examples of "flash" floods, should keep in mind the studies (1880) of Aitken about the condensation nuclei that explain the phenomena of precipitation, starting from the air saturated of vapor.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 29, 2011                         n°:   1723      

Treatment with stem cells for Parkinson not allowed

A German research done with embryonic stem cells to change into nerve suited to the treatment of Parkinson's disease and other neurological diseases was deemed not patentable, and this may have consequences for other types of medical treatments using stem cells made in Europe and other sophisticated techniques that use this type of experiments. The decision is derived by considering that life can not be patented already considering the human embryo already with a limited number of cells "like an individual" and therefore researches with other medicines that use embryonic stem cells at the experimental level should no longer be permitted (and in theory destroy the material so far accumulated on this subject). Other researches in neurology field try to focus on defects in cellular waste disposal in certain areas of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 19, 2011                         n°:   1714      

The so-called cradle of democracy in trouble

Greece is considered by many the cradle of democracy and in practice the country in which were made the first steps for the advancement of civilization, home to men of great intelligence who have contributed to the development of all the requisites of a free mind to think and express themselves in a democratic way, but lately the situation is much worse for the population and the demand for aid has become nearly constant with people who openly declare to struggle to see a secure future. Democracy literally should mean strength of the people, because in ancient Greece there was the codification of written laws that were passed down orally by the nobles in order to allow also to the people the administration of the polis and the justice, with examples of constitution really to the avant-garde as that of Solon.. now the levers of the "public things" are beyond the control of the citizen or popular assemblies.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 06, 2011                         n°:   1703      

Discussions on the relativity theory

Following the survey yet to be confirmed that neutrinos can exceed the speed of light, looks forward to the scrutiny of the data provided by the experiment carried out between Cern of Geneva in Switzerland and the laboratories located under the Gran Sasso in Italy over a distance of approximately seven hundred and thirty kilometers exploiting the properties of these subatomic particles to travel into the matter. According to the fraction of time to be considered is so small that it is easy to nest a few mistakes in the calculations, since these would be the difference in measurements of inches which would undermine the theory of relativity of Einstein (or Poincaré) with implications on all the modern physics and consequently on the conception of space-time. In the past, many doubts were expressed about the subatomic experiments, in fact, "see into the matter" implies the use a lot of energy that ultimately affect on the various researches. - [22/02/2012] Seems has been anomalies of the instruments links.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 26, 2011                         n°:   1694      

Trained hippocampus in the brain to all the ages

For to identify one of the most important areas in the brain to solve problems, like emotional intelligence and memory center usually indicates the hippocampus, and Australian researchers have found using an Magnetic Resonance Image scanner that this area is wider in size in individuals used to solve problems also relating to other people identifying with them and with a short-term memory particularly ready. These characteristics would lead to structural changes in the brain also help to promote mental health and prevent degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and these small changes were noted even in women who are responsible for teaching and caring for other people. A decay of the intellectuals "performance" with repeated thoughts and amnesia on daily happenings, according with other studies, would be a clear sign of the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 12, 2011                         n°:   1682      

Steps in the history of computing and computers

An aid to calculations made in ancient times was the abacus, a tablet with grooves in which to place the tiles or stones (from which calculus) like "abaci" which became in time the kind of straightedges, more or less complex including one described in 1606 by Galileo, then Pascal and more fully Leibniz invented mechanical calculators which was also the basis of the functioning of a complex machinery for calculations designed by Babbage after 1822 that was also programmed using punch cards which were used to weave the threads in mechanical looms (Jacquard). The development of calculators was mainly by watchmakers, the only ones at this time were able to manufacture the many cogs of these machines, and have to wait until Zuse (about 1934) to see the appearance of relays and Atanasoff for the first modern real computer including electronic memory and printing.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 31, 2011                         n°:   1672      

Babylonian tables of account and astronomy

When are talking of mathematical systems of calculation, astronomical observations and timetables for the measurement of time often forget to mention the achievements of the Assyrian-Babylonian (Akkadian) that long before the Greeks calculated the movements of the planet Mercury and the moon's orbit with a difference of only 0.4 seconds compared to current measurements; moreover the religion of the Sumerians connected to the cult of the constellations maybe rise [or vice-versa] some stories taken in other sacred texts such as the "Flood" that spared the family of Ut-napiscti, and then the story of Sargon I (2684-2630 BC), born from a virgin and given to the current of a river in a container as well as the exploits of Gilgamesh and the various superstitions. A text written in Babylonian cuneiform discovered in the hill of Kujund-shick reports a mathematical series whose product is relevant to our number 195 955 200 000 000, a figure that would hardly have been considered by Leibniz.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 23, 2011                         n°:   1664      

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and the binary calculation

The inventor of the calculus of binary type used in computers was Leibniz (Leipzig 1646-1716 Hanover), in fact the mathematician-philosopher drew in 1679 a medal that says on the top and bottom edges "One has created everything from nothing, One is necessary" and in the center on the binary number system necessary for the operation of his newly developed calculator. From this type of design can also be derived roughly the thought almost mystical of the philosopher expressed in the "Monadology" of 1714 which relates to previous studies on calculus "A new method for the maxima and the minima" of 1684 in addition to the concept of pre-established harmony that guides everything like a smart gear. Leibniz with his calculator able to do four basic operations would raise humanity from the difficulties of manual calculation, but died alone (among bitter controversy with other crafty scientists), abandoned by all.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 12, 2011                         n°:   1656      

Breastfeeding for psycho-affective developing

One of the most important parameters to consider in order to safeguard the health of newborns and their correct mental development is according to some breast-feeding mother, which allows contact between the mother and the baby and then the psycho-affective developing of child's even if seems to be increasingly rare that mothers find adequate care in case of difficulty feeding. The composition of breast milk during the first days after birth (called colostrum) is even more rich of immunoglobulins and less in lactose and fat, factors that can contribute to improving child health, reducing health care costs and the risk of possible obesity with the development, but few structures that would provide support programs for mothers that includes check-ups and special telephone lines to provide useful information in a very sensitive area also for a correct child's psychologic development.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 05, 2011                         n°:   1650      

Physical exercise and antioxidants for Alzheimer's

A sedentary lifestyle may be the main cause of the occurrence of a disease like Alzheimer's disease that robs the individuals affected of their fundamental existence memories and also of the ability to understand where they are or to orient themselves properly, so just do physical exercise, a balanced diet avoiding obesity, cigarette smoking and other unhealthy habits, it would seem the best prevention (quantified in percentage by researchers). Beyond to maintaining in good efficiency the capillaries of the brain controlling the blood pressure values and the various metabolic altered values that can cause loss of brain cells, for other studies also take natural antioxidants extracted from fruit particularly rich in these substances seems may play a beneficial role important to try to maintain in good state the cognitive functions.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 25, 2011                         n°:   1640      

Monitored brain damage on the boxers

Scans obtained by using magnetic resonance imaging, cognitive and language tests than those on the body, the researchers plan to monitor the brain damage suffered by professional boxers, martial arts and volunteers also try to improve the effectiveness of specific treatments for these types of damage that can undermine the health of athletes. From long time is known the health risks linked to repeated trauma to the brain and with this new study will be possible to check which are the most damaged parts of the brain, keeping in mind both the bloodstream or the lining of the nerve fibers of the same size the brain. Previous studies have shown that the so-called contact sports, usually suited to individuals with long physical training, the body could cause more harm than good and very unhealthy aspects.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 18, 2011                         n°:   1634      

Monkeys have mental abilities linked with language

Usually it was thought that the path of the evolution of the man had developed mental capacities higher than in other primates such as that allowed him to understand the logical content of a speech even if only partially reaches the ear, but a new study have shown that the monkeys have similar capacities able to recognize the languages, even if distorted. In the past measurements on the skulls of primates have shown a progressive increase in brain size through the evolution of the prosimians, the monkeys, and then to that anthropomorphic noting that in comparison to man a difference in the depth of the convolutions and that was missing a part used for the language, so it was thought that this characteristic had allowed man to develop a logical intelligence with evolutionary consequences on the whole organism.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 09, 2011                         n°:   1627      

Mathematical symbols with unchanged results

The proposal to change the graphics of a known mathematical symbol of value 3.14159.. (ratio between circumference and diameter) that would have one legs instead of two proposes the discussion of that kind of international symbolic language initially ideated by G. W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716) and later developed by G. Peano (1858 - 1932) and that was to constitute a kind of scientific Esperanto derived from the Latin with classes clear and references to the concepts of belonging with their symbols of inclusion. Not only the languages but also the theories should be the more simplest of the data explicated in they, according to Leibniz; in fact otherwise may not be able to explain the same concepts. These arguments were addressed by the Greek philosophers with the use of dialectical syllogism, but it remains the difficult to understand the mathematical language that is always quite complex and abstract.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 30, 2011                         n°:   1619      

Bank of brain cells to treat Parkinson's disease

Taking a small piece of skin of the patient and using a technique that exploits the potential of stem cells to become some small parts of the brain, English researchers would be trying to raise some sort of base of brain cells to treat patients with Parkinson's disease, then with this technique can also analyze the nerve cells and groped to understand the mechanism that causes the alteration of brain matter. Through the observation of the differences that accumulate in patients suffering from Parkinson's and healthy individuals will try to analyze at the cellular level the early stages of the disease in order to develop medicines to treat the various abnormalities. From other studies show that diet and stress may favor the onset of brain disorders and dementia, without considering the pollution and chemicals that may be the real triggers.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 21, 2011                         n°:   1611      

Little cinnamon to delay the onset of Alzheimer's

Drinking water with a typical component of a spice often used in the preparation of sweets such as the cinnamon would seem useful to delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease, but avoiding excessive consumption and not exceeding a dose of about ten grams per day (since that could affect for the liver function). Previous studies have shown that molecules with strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory could interact with classes of drugs used to treat Alzheimer's, a degenerative disease whose real cause is not triggered yet been identified although it seems to occur in greater proportion in individuals who have suffered severe stress and even in obese people. The mnemonic training with the study and the exercise of the mental ability to recall learned, including music and new notions, seems can be useful to avoid getting sick.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 10, 2011                         n°:   1602      

Identified the part of the brain that sees in the dark

Using equipment to monitor brain activity in blind people who had the ability to move using a kind of echolocation, a feature of some animals such as bats and dolphins, researchers would be able to identify those areas of the cerebral cortex is usually used to vision that is working to enable to hear the echo of sounds. Being able to understand how this type of mechanism is active in the brain may be useful both for teaching to move to the blind who can not move easily, and to improve the qualities of vision of the blind who already possess this particular ability of orientation. In the past, several experiments were carried out "nightvision" simply bandaging healthy individuals and found that some were able to perceive the distance of obstacles, this is also to test technology vision systems which use various sensors.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 28, 2011                         n°:   1591      

Discovered the gene of the brain convolutions

Analyzing the brain of a patient who suffered from epilepsy since a young age and hospitalized in Istanbul the genetic analysis showed the lacking of only two letters of genetic code, from the total of about three billion, and that should be used to form the characteristic convolutions and crevices that allow to increase the surface used for the reasoning and permit the thought. Later it was noted that two other patients had the same kind of lack of genetics "writing" that should contribute to the formation of dendrites in the brain early in life and our understanding of this mechanism could also be useful for the treatment of certain particularly debilitating degenerative diseases. Other studies have long shown that poor sleep quality and stress in toddlers can cause problems in brain development and behavior, with significant impact on learning.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 17, 2011                         n°:   1581      

Deformation theory of space-time confirmed

The mass of the Earth in subtly manner distorts the space and the time dragged also around with the effect of geodetic type confirming according the scientists the theory ,as a mathematically hypothesis, by A. Einstein, in fact, sensitive gyroscopes mounted on a probe would measure with instruments these very small changes for human perception. More researches will be carried out on non-visible field with a spectrometer mounted on a special probe following the discoveries already made in laboratories on Earth that have confirmed that other particles in the atom than the constituents of ordinary matter. According to some the studies of this kind can not be trusted since the "energy used to see" in the matter or in the absence of matter influence each experiment in this way altering the results.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 05, 2011                         n°:   1571      

A model of the atom based on quantum theory

The conception of the atom of planetary type of E. Rutherford and based on classical mechanics still had some uncertainty and doubts, especially after the discovery in 1900 by Max Planck (Kiel 1858-1947 Göttingen) that between matter and radiation the energy would be exchanged in a quantity proportional to the frequency of the radiation and the electron rotates around the nucleus not like a planet around the sun, but on the basis of dynamical states (quantum states or discrete not continuous, based also on wave theory). Planck was a scientist who contributed in a decisive way to discover the structure of the atom so as to produce a kind of revolution in modern physics, and subsequent studies were strongly influenced by these theories, but at the same time it appeared the problem of how the energy produced from the atom was used and the numerous warnings to the peace of Planck remained practically unheard.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 23, 2011                         n°:   1562      

Early research on radioactivity

One of the first scientists who do researches on the phenomenon of radioactivity, in those days just discovered, was Ernest Rutherford (Nelson 1871 - 1937 Cambridge) who managed to discover that the process was mainly caused by the enactment of radioactive particles from ionizing atoms that have this type of feature, and then each ionization process results in the transformation of the atom. Studies by Rutherford and his collaborators in the famous Cavendish Laboratory came to find that the structure of the atom should be of global and then with a core in a compact space of positive charge and gravitated around long-distance (in relationship with the dimensions) electrons of negative charge, then practice in using the method of "alchemical" type devised by Marie Sklodowska Curie was able to obtain the transformation of the matter by splitting atoms.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 15, 2011                         n°:   1555      

The discovery of the radioactivity

The researches on the field of the radioactivity were a consequence of the discovery of the X-rays and theories on light and electromagnetic waves of Maxwell and Hertz, in fact, to examine these studies J.H. Poincaré (1854-1912) advised the physical Henri Becquerel (Paris 1852 - Le Croisic 1908) to determine whether there might be a connection between X-ray and phosphorescence-phluorescence. Becquerel using the salts of uranium discovered in 1896 the phenomenon of radioactivity by exposing the rays emitted from uranium to the magnetic field of an electromagnet, also found that these rays impressed the photographic plate, and for this reason were called precisely "Becquerel rays". By studying the properties of radiation experienced that some type were stopped by a sheet of aluminum, while others were more penetrating, and through further investigation it was discovered the so-called cathode rays.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 02, 2011                         n°:   1544      

The splitting of the atom

When discussing of nuclear energy back in the memory experiments of so-called boys of Panisperna street in Rome, a group of students including Henry Fermi, Edward Amaldi.. guided by a "political and physical" Orso Marius Corbino who was committed from 1918 about the development of nuclear physics Italian to reach the results that came to affect all subsequent researches. Already at that time aimed at big business for the exploitation of atomic energy that had not yet fully revealed all the dangers that this type of hidden technology, and it was for cause of the World War II that the research had a decisive boost from the Albert Einstein's decision to give his contribution to building an atomic device, then those researches in practice were used to develop the nuclear power stations to produce electricity.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 26, 2011                         n°:   1537      

Mental attitudes and work

During the life may happen sometimes to suffer from depression and usually women are more affected than males, but this relationship is reversing due to changes that are transforming the labor market with the males on average hardest hit because of the shift of manufacturing of certain products and consequent loss of employment for many individuals. The societies have set up a model that people are often engaged in "hard" work to support the family and the lack of employment in males who have this mindset can generate the so-called major depression because they tend to build their own network of knowledge in the workplace. Other studies show that in children who tended to be more aggressive (such as bullying), and then on average more popular there was also a major component of depression due to aggression.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 02, 2011                         n°:   1514      

Speak two languages in order to prevent Alzheimer

In a study of a group of patients with symptoms of Alzheimer's those who spoke two languages were identified by analysis between four and five years after those who spoke only a language, moreover the advantage would also have in terms of lower aggressiveness of the disease beyond that of the prevention strengthening the powers of the intellect. Learning a second language is undoubtedly easier to children perhaps because are less stressed by other stimuli than adults who do not pose sufficient attention to learning and then with increasing age could fall without proper exercise of that kind of "cognitive reserve" that makes the brain more plastic and ready to absorb new knowledge. Interestingly in individuals who speak two languages that the active brain areas depending on the circumstances that allow to speak a language while others are temporarily disabling.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 19, 2011                         n°:   1505      

Visual test pain and brain

In an experiment carried out by monitoring the pain that an individual felt by applying a painful stimulus for example to a hand, researchers have found that if enlarge the vision portion of the hand the pain decreases, but increases in the case spontaneously tend to look in other directions and it must convene observe in this case the hand for feel less pain. This type of reaction could help to understand the mechanisms of how the brain processes pain and its neurological basis so also to develop new types of treatment suitable also for chronic conditions, since there would be a relationship between the visual network of the brain and that of pain. In previous studies had been identified as being due to particular states of relaxation obtained through meditation can relieve a little the feel of painful with less physical reactions in general.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 12, 2011                         n°:   1499      

Poles are the first victims of the führer

On the memorial day that we remembers the extermination of Jews during the liberation of prisoners of the concentration camp of Auschwitz in 1945, but the first to be exterminated were individuals with disabilities or impairments after a smear campaign supported by the "mass media" of the time even if the negative record of trouble probably came to the Poles, in fact, by a memorandum results that the füehrer had planned to eliminate them with impassive as they were a logical contradiction (only those who not held menial jobs, others were to be enslaved). The invasion of Poland was agreed with other major nations that they did not miss their help by sending trucks needed to transport the German troops, then was made a sort of manhunt to recruit the necessary manpower to operate the machinery German war effort.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 27, 2011                         n°:   1485      

Attractive individuals not always even unintelligent

An old folk belief described as not very intelligent the individuals physically attractive, but a British study had shown that men and women judged to be charm have an IQ (parameter that has little scientific sense) slightly higher, and in the tests would be an advantage especially the males; in addition, the children of these couples would be both attractive and intelligent. In past research on what is called "beauty" of physics had shown that this type of quality factor could be related to a certain harmony of the lines as in the case of the face, and showing a series of photographs to selected individuals who had to choose the most attractive appearance were selected mainly people with a perfect mirror symmetry of the left and the right part of the face, while the asymmetry was judged enough negatively.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 18, 2011                         n°:   1477      

Partial eclipse of the Sun in Italy

The solar eclipses were studied initially by the Assyrians-Babylonians who were able to identify the cycle of about eighteen years called "Saros" that mark the rhythm of the Sun and Moon eclipses, but it was thanks to the geometrical knowledge that Thales was able to give first explanations of this phenomenon is clearly visible the 04/01, for example from Italy (especially the North). The partial eclipse of the Sun will start at seven forty-five am and will force those who want to observe to supply with appropriate type of welder very dark or tinted glasses so as not to damage the retina, although experts have indicated that the haze and dust might mitigate the power of the sun, but it is still preferable to protect the eyes. To remember that Hipparchus was responsible for the complex theory of epicycles and deferential to calculate the geometries of the sky, theories that were then very developed and completed by the Pythagoreans.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 04, 2011                         n°:   1465      

Test to find Alzheimer's in advance

Using two tests already known to identify the early symptoms of Alzheimer's and comparing the results could be possible according to new research to predict in advance the disease before it occurs, because, thanks to a lumbar puncture to monitor the levels of amyloid protein in the cerebrospinal fluid and a brain scan to detect narrowing of the cerebral mass the researchers think can be given appropriate treatment before appear symptoms of the disease. These tests as well as giving the opportunity to intervene before it's too late, allowing researchers to develop a vaccine for a long time trying to develop. The use of tests to examine the spinal fluid appears to be little used in the prevention of Alzheimer's also if valid for prevent the disease that often progresses silently in individuals who some times are not completely self-sufficient.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 23, 2010                         n°:   1456      

Alzheimer's linked to protein to be cleared

A new study on Alzheimer's disease have shown that most of the growth of plaques of beta amyloid protein is the difficulty of the body to eliminate the real cause of the damage to memory and reasoning ability of the brain, so even if this is the first phase of research scientists think to develop a blood test before the disease occurs to count the amount of beta amyloid protein is not removed (about a thirty percent more than in healthy individuals). It remains the difficult to understand how this mechanism degeneration can begin in the brain and some research might be the "oxidation of iron" to play a harmful role in these cases, eating purple fruits as the berries would help to avoid this oxidation, taking into account that too much free iron in the circulation impedes the protective role of vitamin C.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 13, 2010                         n°:   1447      

Toothpaste with triclosan harm on children's brain

A common anti-bacterial such as the triclosan present in toothpastes and also mainly in a wide range of hygiene products may cause from the results of some researches problems in a regular flow of blood flux to the brain of children in the mother's uterus, causing with this lack of oxygen the risk of developing a non-regular intelligence later with the growth. The chemical component of the study is a molecule made up nearly half a century ago and that with high-dose as other chemicals normally used for personal hygiene would interfere with an enzyme that allows the hormone estrogen in the uterus to move in a physiological manner. Be noted nevertheless that many components found in modern chemistry have made possible to remove the bacterial charge present in products widely used with beneficial effects in general on health.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 06, 2010                         n°:   1440      

Urinalysis for cognitive problems

A difficulty to express itself and a deterioration of the fluidity of the language are parameters taken into account in assessing cognitive deficits in individuals no more younger and a new study found a correlation between low levels of albumin in elderly women detectable with urinalysis and a certain decline in memory performance. This study was conducted with phone test type every two years that will prove the skills of verbal memory, of short term, of work and the fluidity of language in more than twelve hundred women found that low doses of albumin (a soluble protein) and creatinine (an amino acid derivative) in the urine could be linked to cognitive problems and progressive deterioration of the small vessels of the brain, and then albuminuria can be considered as an initial specific marker.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 23, 2010                         n°:   1429      

Social collaboration influenced by genetics

A study on identical twins (monozygotic) and therefore that share the same genes showed that cooperation and social behavior in a reference group made up of individuals of different culture or religion may be influenced by the same genes, beyond in addition to education and the cultural background that tend to play an important role on the reaction of any person. Other studies had previously found that genes, could be due to particular "mental reactions" and this was proved own in identical twins who lived in different places and environments, and in certain circumstances seemed to respond similarly to different behavioral situations simulated, but the result was so clear that the education and mental conditioning could alter these reactions, so that even the physical appearance of these twins changed slightly.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 15, 2010                         n°:   1422      

Physical exercise against depression and anxiety

Individuals who do not practice any type of exercise during their free time and then do not follow a table of exercises seem to suffer from depression and anxiety in twice the percentage that who are training on a regular basis regardless of the intensity of the exercises, but with variations in the case of interactions social make physical activity more enjoyable. To improve the mood and levels of mental and biological health is useful practice physical training combined with a healthy and balanced diet, then according to studies conducted in the past to be immersed as much as possible in a naturalistic environment can benefit in kind of unhealthy attitudes (typical of consumerist culture that do not respect the natural rhythms of the individual). Do not forget also the factor of the meditation, autogenous training or similar which often provide the "base note" on which to regulate all the activities.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 02, 2010                         n°:   1411

A gene in the brain exerts an influence on alcohol

One of the main reasons why some people more likely get drunk when they drink alcohol is the unequal presence in the liver of the alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme that converts alcohol into different substances, but researchers have discovered that some alcohol is metabolized in the brain by an enzyme whose action is influenced by the action of a specific gene and the individuals who more bear the brunt of alcohol action and are more sensitive to its usually negative effects have a version of the gene that "metabolizes" the alcohol more easily. The study was carried out on pairs of students who had a relative who suffered from alcoholism, probably due to the presence of a variation in a gene located on chromosome ten that influence the absorption of alcohol in the brain, while part of the subjects involved in research not showed particular problems in drinking a few glasses of alcohol.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 22, 2010                         n°:   1402

Malnutrition and mental development

The living conditions of a large part of the global population are rather poor also in countries like India where despite the sustained economic growth and the advanced industrialization finds himself with many malnourished children with the risk that their physical and especially mental development is lower than normal, because after two years of age the damage to the organism remain stable despite is trying to re-establish a balanced diet. Other countries where malnutrition hits hardest are those in South Asia and in general the African countries like the Democratic Republic of the Congo (where the rich subsoil is systematically looted), and almost one in every six individuals worldwide suffer hunger with resulting psychological effects, and disproportion with the rich countries who waste the food becomes ever more striking considering also the obesity rate and the resources wastage.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 12, 2010                         n°:   1393

John Baptist Vico against degradation

In 1710 the philosopher J. B. Vico (Naples 1668 - 1744) one of the sharpest minds of all time, published his important work "On the ancient wisdom of Italian people" which analyzed the classical language and then showed that only the author can truly know his artifact (using a process similar to the Platonic "Cratylus"), and then with the metaphysical theory of the truth-fact raised the possibility that man can have knowledge only of the things do directly. Vico's philosophy is based on a marked historic position that criticizes the previous conceptions and historical development of mankind based on his "new science", and in practice in the history of peoples and nations is analyzed the same development of the thought, like all fruit of the human mind. Mathematics is seen as a secure science, but understood as abstract entities, numbers and figures to present and forged to ourselves as a type of criterion of truth.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 25, 2010                         n°:   1379      

Cure for Alzheimer's and cognitive processes

With a comparative study on Alzheimer's patients and normal individuals was found that a cholinesterase inhibitor medicine that blocks an enzyme that acts on an important nervous transmitter as the acetylcholine, increases the learning capacity of healthy adults and the verification has been confirmed in relation to a placebo medicine. The researchers are analyzing the action of such molecules in patients with cognitive deficits, but it is still early stages of testing for example on cholinesterase, an enzyme that hydrolyzes the acetylcholine a chemical mediator that "regulates the transmission" of nerve impulses and synapses in the nervous system in general. Other studies indicate that a diet rich in vitamin B complex (derived from natural food without abuse supplements) can be quite useful in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 18, 2010                         n°:   1373

Psychotherapy on war veterans

The soldiers forced to witness violent war scenes at risk of developing post-traumatic stress syndrome and in these cases tend to use even recently experience a memory that cause progressive joint use of antipsychotic medicines in order to facilitate the catharsis, but studies on the brain has been shown that one should try to change both the memories that emotions related to them, since they are placed in different areas of memory and could be responsible for a certain sadness and instability. Regarding the so-called cathartic (from the greek purification) method trying to prevent an unpleasant memory not be properly downloaded can be somatic, and thus cause various diseases and conditions, there are techniques of mental training, dissociation and meditation that can make a bit of relief for persons severely put to the test.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 04, 2010                         n°:   1361

Archaeological remains of Odysseus house to Ithaca

The ruins of a three-level building located in the north island of Ithaca were found through a long process of digging from Greeks archaeologists that speculate that are the remains of the house of Ulysses, although further studies are needed to confirm the historians reliability of the discovery that under a certain aspect refers to mythological stories. The Trojan War, the famous Homeric heroes and the deeds of the Iliad and Odyssey are probably narrations stories of different civilizations and thus unlikely to be attributed to one author, traditionally identified with the Homer poet of Chios or Smyrna (IX century BC), and furthermore exists a so-called "Homeric question", but these stories are still considered very useful for the intellectual development of students (bearing in mind that is largely episodes of fantasy). The Homeric poems also help to give depth to the Greek national history.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 24, 2010                         n°:   1351

Autism identified with the computer

Using a graphics processing in three dimensions by scanning the brain of adults patient with autism, researchers were able to identify weakly but more accurately traces of the disease that with normal or traditional tests are difficult to detect, even if they are needed further studies to improve this novel technique. Some of the underlying mechanisms of diseases that affect the performance of the brain have been partly identified for some time due to the reconstruction with computer graphics and analysis of brain circuits that are activated during the various operations of the brain just as fairly "mechanical" is branched with electrical connections, whereas many brain areas are always active waiting to be fully utilized to perform complex functions that enables the interaction with the environment.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 13, 2010                         n°:   1342

Archimedes and the squaring of the parabola

Among the greatest mathematicians and scientists of the antiquity must remember Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BC), disciple of the astronomer and mathematician Conon of Samos and continuer of the calculus of the Pythagoreans was able to apply the calculation also to the mechanics and to the hydrostatic reaching results that have influenced many technical and engineering works despite the demonstration method not quite rigorous that assumes that is already know the end of the results of his calculations to reach the complete solution. Notable is the work on floating bodies and the invention of "screw" for hydraulic works, then the calculations on the sphere and cylinder, the levers, the squaring of the parabola (the legendary burning mirrors).. He was killed roughly by a Roman soldier who questioned him and to which he refused to answer, continuing to study the his drawings and mathematical calculations.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 03, 2010                         n°:   1333      

Skull larger and less Alzheimer's

If the skull is not developing well in the first years of life for cause, for example, of poor nutrition or diseases that could then also influence the brain development, scientists have noted a correlation with memory impairment and Alzheimer's disease compared to individuals that had normally developed the skull and therefore larger. The size of the skull depends mainly by genetic causes, but especially within the first six years of life through proper diet and lifestyle is expected to reach a good level of development so that brain cells can provide "benefits" in the mnemonic rule. Others studies would also a relationship between physical activity and levels of vitamin D, in fact older people tend to move less and without exposing to the beneficial solar rays action (if moderate) that allow the skin to synthesize the vitamin D.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 14, 2010                         n°:   1322

Brain and infections

Infections in children can cause cognitive deficits and various damages to the central nervous system in the very moment when the body is forming and international organizations as reported infectious diseases in poor countries are becoming a factor that hinders a normal and balanced development (that would also like to maintain the social peace, since the discomfort can fuel conflicts). The living conditions of the population such as in the Congo are so poor that trying to survive despite the subsoil is rich in raw materials are forced to steal fuel from a tanker overturned to get a few "pennies" to the black market, but exposing so to the risk of uncontrolled fires and explosions. This unhealthy situation is also helped by governments which do not control how resources are really equally distributed.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 05, 2010                         n°:   1314

Brain protected from radiation of mobile phones

Begin to appear the first cases of indication of radiation levels received by mobile phones to the consumers also if for now there were no studies that have been widely validated that show specific injury or brain tumors, but choose a phone that emits less radiation can be useful for to protect the brain from damage considering there are safety limits that the body can absorb. The effective use of the mobile device for not excessive and possibly changing the listening ear sometimes may limit the total emissions in radio frequency, although there is some who declare openly than rather by radiation from mobile phones and other electronic devices should be careful not to exaggerate with medical examinations (whereas this time not only the brain but throughout the body and damages for long-distance time). - [31/05/2011 for the WHO the use of mobile phones can cause tumors.. 26/10 but a wide study wouldn't have found direct links].

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 25, 2010                         n°:   1306

Passive smoking, alcohol and brain

Individuals suffering from the adverse effects of passive smoking according to a new research could have approximately of a fifty percent more of psychological exhaustion than non-smokers, also would have been clear correlation for this type of interference with nicotine, at least from the results obtained with studies in a large group of smokers. According to others studies a moderate alcohol consumption protects individuals from one type of devastating illness that affects the brain such as the Alzheimer's, but the best results would have been recovered in women and particularly in those non-smokers, and this fact has led to hypothesize a sort of correlation between alcohol, tobacco, gender and neuronal receptors, but this time the smoke does not seem to have direct effects with the risk of Alzheimer's, although some say could be linked to possible dementia as well as a large number of serious diseases.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 10, 2010                         n°:   1293

Dementia increases with the belly

Individuals who tend to accumulate fat in the abdominal area seems to have a lower brain volume and have a greater chance of developing dementia (at least for people with an average of about sixty years of age), and researchers have found a direct link between a relatively high B.M.I. and a lower volume of brain, but the visceral fat that accumulates around the organs have the most impact on dementia. A big belly tends to affect other parameters related to the health and then eventually limit the performance of the brain, but still are necessary further studies to verify these connections, then should consider that also the stress can play a significant factor, and a person suffering from dementia sets in an unhealthy circle that puts a strain on the resistance of the organism.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 22, 2010                         n°:   1277

Check the stress to prevent the dementia

One way to prevent degenerative diseases such as senile dementia that may weaken the ability of the mind is trying to avoid the intense stress or make appropriate exercises to mitigate the deleterious effects, especially if is necessary to assist an individual who suffers from dementia, and a study has shown that even elderly couples tend to have the same type of illness six times greater extent if the person married see day by day the weakening of the mental clarity of the companion. The older men were more susceptible to these harmful emotional stress (at least compared to females) without considering that age plays an important role since the body does not react in the best way, but some determinants of dementia are still being studied and in most cases who assist an elderly does not tend to get sick.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 07, 2010                         n°:   1264

Patients with Parkinson's who riding a bicycle

Although Parkinson's disease in many cases deprive individuals of their ability to control movements, it appears that a Dutch patient with the disease in an advanced state has been able to ride a bicycle easily control the oscillations, whereas once it fell from the mechanical transportation tool found himself prey of tremors that hindered the faltering steps. The explanation of the "unusual" phenomenon seems to be imputed to the different areas of the brain that control movement that perhaps not all are damaged by disease or for the rhythmic stimulations of the pedal that could control the balance of the nervous system, although one should keep in mind that walking requires a lot of mental abilities rather complex, but in any case pedaling a bicycle as well as being useful for the cardiovascular system can promote recovery of motor activity in Parkinson's disease.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 24, 2010                         n°:   1254

Astronomy, optics and Pythagorean knowledge

When we hear of new discoveries in astronomy and optics should be considered that the initial "correct" observations were made by applying the Pythagorean number theory to the study of the space, in fact the philosopher Philolaos of Croton (or Taranto, fifth century BC) supported the heliocentric hypothesis (theory taken up by Aristarchus of Samos and Heraclides Pontico) and probably felt that the motion of the planets was governed by a rule related to the attraction that these heavenly bodies exercised, and the apparent motion of the Sun was to be explained by the laws of the optics. In this last field the theories which were developed by Aristotle came up to influence the most important work written in this sector in Bologna in 1660: "Of the light, the colors and of the iris" by the Jesuit Francis Maria Grimaldi (1618 -1663) , which are treated diffraction, frequency, vibration of the corpuscles.. nature of colors.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 14, 2010                         n°:   1245

New hypotheses on the Neptune planet

A time did not know the Neptune planet from the moment that was not visible to eye, and while Uranus has been uncovered only thanks to the telescope for Neptune had been intuited the existence to cause of "perturbations" own in the Uranus orbit applying the rule of the universal gravitation of Newton (or Hooke), and now assumes that also a planet to the margins of the solar system has been captured that has concurred to increase remarkably its dimensions. This theory would give an explanation also to the strange heat that is given off from this "far" planet that has a satellite (Triton) that moves with an opposite sense of spin probably because has been captured for cause of an sensible slowing down. Neptune is a sphere of gas (hydrogen, helium, methane, ammonia) to the lowest temperature from the remarkable dimensions and gravitational field, but density more low than that of the water.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 23, 2010                         n°:   1230

Aristotle of Stagira

Between the scientists who have left a deep mark on the way of the acquaintance must remember without doubts the philosopher Aristotle (384 -322 b.C.), founder of the anatomy, of the psychology, the zoology.. great observer of the natural and celestial events, like the increase of the delta of the Nile or the position of the stars, with physical-mathematics indications in this case not many correct; but that they have ended in order to influence for centuries in the human thought. Student for nearly twenty years of Plato (judged him intelligent, ingenious and "needy of bit"), on his furrow he tried to develop the doctrine of the ideas on a material plan without to succeed to overwhelm the platonic dualism and have carried some to assert of nonexistent rivalries between the two philosophers or phrases type: "amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas", without to consider that the peripatetics school of the Liceo is not other that the continuation of the Academy.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 15, 2010                         n°:   1223

Henry Cavendish and the carbon dioxide

Two hundred years from the dead happened the 24 February 1810 to London is celebrated one between the more important scientists than all the times, Henry Cavendish been born to Nizza in 1731 of noble family, studied to Cambridge but without to finish the studies from the moment that was attempt to its scientific searches, in particular on the gas described in the important work "Experiments on the air" of 1785 and on the electricity published after the dead "Researches on the electricity", fields in which it made discovered remarkable succeeding to split the hydrogen (as Paracelso had intuited) then succeeded to isolate also the carbon dioxide, described the nitric acid, intuited the characteristics of what then argon was called gas and anticipated with its studies on the electricity the main discoveries in this field. Of timid and reserved character perhaps because of a light stutter, partially ridicule, were erected then a monument in his honor to Derby on the tomb of family.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 24, 2010                         n°:   1206

Stutter for cause of some genes

For some time the relationship between stuttering and genetics had been highlighted, without however be able to discover the three genes specifically involved in the disturbance of language that scientists have finally identified by comparing the genes of people belonging to different populations. The researchers analyzed a particular mutation on chromosome 12 and two other variations in specific genes apparently responsible for nine percent of cases and that control the language areas of the brain, but also for the other cases are still awaiting identification of other genes involved. In the past it was shown that breathing techniques, speech therapy, relaxation was possible to significantly reduce the stuttering in individuals who could barely speak, accompanying with the music and rhythmic timing the various rehabilitation therapies and training of sweet type, not stressful.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 12, 2010                         n°:   1196

Preventive day of memory

What has been described as "Day of Memory" is a type of prevention is not functional in terms of memory capacity of the brain, but to remember the Holocaust and the horror of the extermination camps, so that they can not fall in forgetting events that are likely to persist in any period of difficulty and linked to survival in the most brutal (the men are always ready to literally eat each other and now for example the Jews reject with a border wall the Africans). In general recall and revise those that are the main stages of human evolution is useful for storing and understand the reasons why certain behaviors or attitudes, and also to avoid unhealthy trace paths for the humanity, but recent researches has noticed how poor is the knowledge of some events in the past that we tend to forget in a spontaneous way.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 27, 2010                         n°:   1182

Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment to the study

The first symptoms of AD are hardly detectable with traditional tests, but by controlling for now only on a trial level with the ophthalmoscope the fundus of the eye seems to be possible to observe cell death by apoptosis as if there was a relationship with neurons of the brain damaged because of the devastating disease and thus to act in the early stages with appropriate medicines as possible to contain the damage. Recently it was also noted that a molecule useful for lowering blood pressure (which blocks an angiotensin receptor) lower of more than fifty percent the chance of getting a dementia than individuals taking other medications quite common for this type of disorder, but these studies are still in their early stages. Useful as always to prevent Alzheimer's and dementia is to try to keep in shape all the organism (checking the pressure) and exercising seriously the memory.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 18, 2010                         n°:   1174

The cellphones prevent Alzheimer's in mice

In a study that lasted two months done by installing an antenna that administered the waves of electromagnetic fields from mobile phones (two "doses" for an hour for nine months) in normal mice and genetically modified so that it formed beta amyloid plaques in the brain typical of AD, American researchers have found that exposure to radiation would simulated dissolved plaques and memory also generally improved by comparison with control mice. Not all of the experiments with mice give the same results in men, and indeed it seems that until now were not highlighted specific improvements resulting from the use of cellphones in individuals suffering from Alzheimer's, at least in a specific area of the brain since it is tends to support the phone almost always close to only one ear.. and is expect further studies on these waves.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 08, 2010                         n°:   1166

Numbers and geometry in antiquity

One of the first scholars of numbers and geometry of the universe seems to have been Pythagoras that studied in youth models probably derived from oriental or Egyptian source, but later he devised a system from itself starting from the octave musical relationships and "mystical" influences such as in a vision that combines math and speculation in various fields of science and in Pythagoreanism in practice the agreement between the numbers is the basis of harmony of the cosmos, all in a synthesis of opposites and geometric figures, including the famous solid base of stars and all the celestial objects. Remarkable figure of an equilateral triangle that has influenced many philosophies and also found in sacred texts such as three, ten, "fourteen three times, one hundred and fifty three (one, five to the basis and three points.. or side seventeen - bin.10011001)" and the tetrahedron, but also others polygons analyzed using complex mathematical formulas and theorems kept secret and went largely lost.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 24, 2009                         n°:   1156      

Sensors and scanners for the brain

Multiply the methods used to capture information from the brain, in fact as well as sensors or placed upon their heads helmets that can control various implants and devices is possible with magnetic resonance scanner to images (MRI) to assess which brain areas are activated during an activity and the flow of blood to irrigate for those areas specifically to provide information useful to understand what are the mechanisms that govern the mind. According to a study analyzing some areas that can remain active even predict whether a promise will be kept or not, but these experiments were not very useful for working with the reality, because human behavior is far more complex than that which can be deduced by analyzing that sort of "control box" placed in the brain and the variables that come into play would be very many.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 12, 2009                         n°:   1146

Memory linked to sleep

Many studies have proven to improve the memory should cure the sleep hygiene from the qualitative point of view, since while we are sleeping during the different phases of sleep the brain continues to work and moved from the hippocampus the so-called short memory to the cortex making it long term. The memory seems to be "stimulated" during sleep, in fact in a study of two groups of people who must memorize an image connected to a sound, listen then making this sound during the sleep at one of two selected groups the researchers noted an improved ability to remember the association (using a specially crafted computer screen). Other studies show that sleep quality is worse on average than in the past with consequent risk of accidents and errors due to the decreased level of attention.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 28, 2009                         n°:   1134

Hypatia great thinkers of Alexandria

One of the most educated women in the history of the philosophy was born in Alexandria in 370 about daughter of Theon commentator on Euclid; Hypatía is also known for her beauty studied in Athens and then opened a school in Alexandria, where taught mathematics, astronomy and philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and Aristotle, but was brutally murdered by Christian [ ... ] into a riot in 415 suspected of advising the imperial prefect Orestes resisted in a dispute with the Patriarch Cyril (not directly responsible for killing Hypati though apparently not properly entirely alien to the vicissitude). Now many speaks of the great thinkers commentator of Diophantus, Apollonius, Ptolemy for political purposes that almost always cover personal or partisan ambitions and not pursue the idea of Truth.. in practice murdered and exploited, but will surely be forgiven.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 14, 2009                         n°:   1122

Intelligence quotient tested

One of the primary ways to measure the intelligence is based on the test which yields a score that relates to the so-called intelligence quotient or IQ, whose reliability has often been questioned in the past and even recently, since in many cases in addition to not be indicative happens that people with high IQ behave in real life illogical decisions or clearly inappropriate. Some argue that IQ refers only to a particular prominent skill in the intellectual field, but will require also others faculty to reason consistently good.. a kind of intelligence with various faces adapted to analyze and solve a difficult problem in the best possible way. Some past studies had also shown that proper nutrition, physical and mental activity could have an effect on the intelligence, considering also the stress, the environment, the education.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 05, 2009                         n°:   1114

Galileian nights of observation of the sky

Four hundred years after the first observations of the sky made in October of 1609 with a simple two-lens telescope by Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) astronomers are promoting to the general public in honor of the great scientist three days of intense observation of the space with telescopes, whereas Galileo was the first to identify the four main satellites of Jupiter, and made accurate drawings of lunar craters discovered that the moon was not a perfect sphere. Be noted that although Galileo did not invent the telescope discovered in 1583 the isochronism of the pendulum and the possibility to improve the accuracy of time measurement in the field of watchmaking, (but was Christiaan Huygens to use his intuition in 1657 making the first watch to pendulum).. the activity of the scientist was limited by house arrest following the recantation for to not be tortured to cause of his astronomical theories.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 23, 2009                         n°:   1103

Relation between objects and Alzheimer's

One of the most frequent disorders for individuals suffering from Alzheimer's disease is difficult to recognize and report the objects, and one study has shown that visual spatial ability may decrease some years before (about three) to occur this devastating disease often prevents the early stages of controlling the movements with ease, while getting worse over time in some cases it may also undermine the basic memories of existences. Series of tests using both verbal and mnemonic that also include those which are the various visual and motor skills may be able to detect the early symptoms of dementia and Alzheimer's disease and to halt the progression of the disease in time. As regards other fairly common nervous disorders affecting the functioning of certain areas of the brain and the connection between neurons appears that many people try to hide the symptoms.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 15, 2009                         n°:   1096

Problems by smoking in pregnancy

For a long time have known the unhealthy consequences for the fetus of the chemical components of cigarette smoke (including passive) inhaled by the mother during pregnancy that not spared by their actions the new cells in formation as if it were an unique individual, and now a new study on twelve years of age children would have highlighted that may be suffering from some psychosis or mental problems connected to smoking, but this research still in their initial phase also if seems to be interested the brain areas engaged in perception at all attention. Other studies have verified that the hippocampus forms and records the concepts, then this information would then be compiled by the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, also known mechanisms about how these memories are stored in the brain may be useful to help people suffering for amnesia.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 02, 2009                         n°:   1085

Finding the genes that cause Alzheimer's

Through joint studies carried out on the DNA of thousands of people with Alzheimer's has been possible to identify three new genes that may play a role in this devastating disease in addition to the apolipoprotein E gene already identified in 1993, which seems to cause the accumulation of tangles of plaques beta-amyloid in the brain although it is not yet clear what are the exact causes of these effects, and suggests that there may be a malfunction of the circulatory system in addition to that of the immune system, which controls the chemical processes of cells that metabolize fats. A decline in intellectual abilities has been noted in individuals who disregard the principles of sane nutrition and on physical exercise, especially frequent infections resulting in inflammation, also now thought that the variation of genes would affect the repair capacity of blood vessels.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 12, 2009                         n°:   1068

Hemispheres of the brain in animals tested

A study in Australia showed that the ambidextrous parrot specimens seems to be less adept at solving problems, or to use such objects with the feet and food than for animals with strong characterization on the right or on the left which means a "brain lateralization" with the two hemispheres divided to perform different actions. These skills are probably better performed when the parrot always use the right hemisphere to obtain food in this way without interfering with the left side of the brain that may specialize in other useful functions. Such differences may also occur in humans, but this does not necessarily mean a lower ability of ambidextrous than other individuals, that engaged more a hemisphere improving the same type of repetitive motion many times.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 03, 2009                         n°:   1060

Found less brain tissue in obese

Be obese than to be a significant risk factor for health seems to have an impact even for the memory and intellectual capacity since obese people (BMI over 30) would have a lower percentage of brain tissue by about eight percent compared to people with a weight that is normal, in addition the brain of obese individuals appears to the observer as oldest of about sixteen years, with the effect of raising the risk of suffering for Alzheimer's and other degenerative diseases. It would have been found that even people who are overweight (BMI over 25) are proportionately the same problems found in obese but with some differences in the brain areas affected by the loss of tissue.. In all these cases, lose weight and maintain a healthy weight as well as benefit the mind can be useful for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension.. and cancer.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 26, 2009                         n°:   1053

Caffeine and headache

Taking caffeine daily in considerable quantities according to the results of a large Norwegian study is reported to cause occasional headache, compared to individuals who consume moderate amounts, and again there could be some risk of suffering from chronic headache (for several days each month), but this time to drink caffeine may be of relief to mitigate the migraine attacks. Caffeine is a substance that is colorless and odorless, of bitter taste that has effects on the central nervous system, stimulant of respiration and of the circulation.. an intellectual stimulant (alkaloid belonging to the xanthine family) that to high doses can also cause excitement, insomnia, arrhythmias, and has diuretic action and acts on the secretion of gastric juices in addition to causing occasional headache and is recommended in these cases, to reduce the consumption of beverages as coffee, tea and cola to avoid these side effects.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 17, 2009                         n°:   1045      

Hipparchus of Nicaea and the astronomy

One of the first astronomical scholars was Hipparchus of Nicaea in Bithynia, who lived in Rhodes or perhaps between 160 and 120 BC and is considered the founder of astronomy and mathematics the author of a "Catalog of the stars", full of observations on the positions of the stars recorded by other scientists, and especially known for having discovered the phenomenon of precession of the equinoxes, for having laid the foundation for the study of trigonometry, and for having built the dioptra and other astronomical instruments. Probably also the astrology with annotations and links between the positions of stars and date of birth of individuals must own to Hipparchus, but we must consider that the observations were pretty rough at the time (for example, the value of the solar parallax that the scientist calculated and used for centuries although was very wrong), and, now modern science has shown that the influence of the stars on actual events tied to the story is not certified.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 05, 2009                         n°:   1036

Auto regenerating salamanders

A new research conducted on salamanders revealed that they are not the special pluripotent cells responsible for regrowth of limbs, lungs.. or even to repair parts of the nervous system and brain, but normal cells for example those of the nerves, the muscles or the skin which preserve a kind of primitive memory conformation prior to damage and able to regenerate an entire limb in a few weeks in the case of amputation or repair others damages. The hope is to implement this feature in the future of the really surprising salamanders for the care of people, since the repair process would seem in some case similar to that happen in the mammals related to specific cells, and the only exceptions with a greater versatility seems to have been found in the cells of cartilage and skin of these nice amphibians blacks with yellow spots.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 02, 2009                         n°:   1013

Researches about how Alzheimer's is spreading

Scientists are trying to study what are the mechanisms by which Alzheimer's disease and other serious degenerative disorder spread in the brain, and an experiment suggests that tangles of protein called beta amyloid so called tau can be injected into healthy brain, causing the same kind of damage (at least on mice) and this does not mean that there might be some kind of contagion of the disease from one individual to another, but it is a step forward in understanding how the infection may spread into the tissues of the brain. The hypothesis is that the plaques formed by accumulation of protein characteristics of the Alzheimer, to behave in the spread of the disease and the destruction of brain tissue such as the prions of "mad cow" disease, but still is not clear the cause that leads to the formation of the tangles of protein that literally destroys the memory of an increasing number of individuals on the planet.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 08, 2009                         n°:   991

The plants have still unknown capacities

The roots of two plants of different species that grow close compete to find water and nutrients to help growth, instead it seems that if the two plants have a close degree of "kinship" tend to work helping in the defense against the attack by parasites (we assume similar to what happens between animals). In a research done with sagebrush plants was noted that copies of exemplars neighbors cloned for cutting, they communicated to report a simulated attack of grasshoppers (prepared with appropriate protective measures to front the threat by changing the position of stems, leaves..) unlike what happened with plants that are not enjoyed the same relationship, then this implies a special ability like of reasoning, since that the plant sends appropriate messages probably through signals of chemical substances, depending on the circumstances.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 02, 2009                         n°:   986

Exposure to sunlight and vitamin D for the mind

A study comparing the cognitive performance of many men has shown a link between some mental capacity related to the speed and comprehension of the information, and high levels of vitamin D that can be achieved for example by exposing the skin to the sun each day for about ten - fifteen minutes, but it seems the beneficial effect would be more sensitive in people over sixty years than in younger. Other studies reported in the past, showed the risk of depression for the elderly in case of lack vitamin D; also seems to remain active even in old age may be useful to prevent degenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia, in addition to seeking to avoid the obesity.. in the case is notice a rapid weight loss in older people could be, according to some researchers, a warning of the early symptoms of dementia that can be prevented through a balanced diet.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 22, 2009                         n°:   977

Spontaneous cures for autistic children

Some children diagnosed as autistic may heal "spontaneously" growing (in small percentage) or in other cases due to specific types of behavioural treatments even if not yet are known the mechanisms that cause this disease, and many times it happens that despite the use of therapies targeted the improvements are found not significant. By analyzing the brains of children diagnosed as autistic, the researchers noted which is slightly wider and that the disease may be diagnosed in different degrees of severity and may rediscount other mental problems such as attention deficit, phobias and tics.. or may experienced improvements in general to seven years of age. Previous studies have found in patients with autism the difficulty to assess the actions of others also learn from mistakes, and neurological abnormalities in the superior temporal sulcus of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 09, 2009                         n°:   966

A little part of artificial brain reconstructed

With an experiment of artificial intelligence based on a simulation of a small part of the brain reconstructed "assembling" every molecule that would mimic the function of the corresponding neurons, some scientists have succeeded in establishing a basis of memory and thought of functioning neuronal system (modeled as a single unit of mammalian neocortex) suitable for example for a new generation of molecular computer much more advanced than those permitted by the silicon chip. Further developing of this technology with further studies in times, apparently linked to the resources available, it should be possible thanks to computing power to individual genetic researches in medicine, with drugs targeted to a specific genetic profile.. (but in the past also made some ethics considerations about of artificial intelligence that simulated the human mind).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 27, 2009                         n°:   956

Stressful promotions at work

It seemed almost obvious and is thought to be promoted at work means to achieve greater prosperity in terms of healthy as well as improve their social condition, but research indicates that promotion produces mental stress worsening the general health and is dedicated even less time to care, health visits, checks and it seems that for example in the managers there could be a substantial deterioration in mental balance that lasts beyond the initial phase (rewarding for the careers, but not exactly good for the well-being). Other studies showed how the insecurity of the work was definitely little healthy, then the low-paid work in addition to exploitation by "speculators" destabilize the markets and throughout the production chain that can be passed on even distant countries with modern economies connected, causing a globally malaise.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 14, 2009                         n°:   945

Tapered brain and mental performance

A thinner cerebral cortex is often associated with certain mental disorders and a study of patients suffering from a predisposition to major depression was noticed a thinning of a 28% of the right hemisphere, whereas previously it was thought that the part of brain involved in this type of problem was that of the medial prefrontal cortex, which can also cause problems of attention, memory and relationships that may have characteristics of family type and finding in most subjects. We should also take into account, according to some scientists, genetic and environmental factors as a strong stress may cause damage to the cortex, or an irregular development of certain areas of the brain and it is worth recalling the role of neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine for a good functioning of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 30, 2009                         n°:   937

Memories of the brain examined or deleted

Using a scanner for magnetic resonance imaging on volunteers who were to move within a virtual scenario seems to have been possible to predict exactly what the position were and monitoring the hippocampus in the brain or specific neurons within the specific spacial areas would be possible, by analyzing the instrumental data, to understand what individuals are thinking in space (from an ethical point of view experiment "little exciting" of reading of the mind, at least considering the possible developments of this type of technique). The research on how memories are stored would have highlighted the role of individual neurons for each episode and concept, and also the theoretical possibility to erase a specific memory stored in a single neuron or understand the mechanism by which some degenerative diseases affecting the memory.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 14, 2009                         n°:   925

Mental abilities of the chimpanzees

Many monkeys are capable of capturing the termites in the termite with a stick of twig that the insects attacking for instinct of protection and ended in this way to be easy and repetitive morsels, and now a specific research seems has filmed of a further skills of the chimpanzees; in fact would be able to build a tool like a brush using stems of plants that strips and work with the teeth to form fibers from attack on a stick which then serve to easily capture the insects. This type of tool would require the special mental abilities and with the imagination to figure the object that is want to achieve, more than the simple ability to copy it or modify to the best use. There are also, exploring another area of research, that the whales were over the nasal area in a position to give and receive a sophisticated and precise double-echo sonar signal.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 06, 2009                         n°:   918

Mind fatigued by too much stress on the job

High stress can cause mental fatigue and neurological problems, moreover a study has also highlighted how it can be exhausting work more than fifty-five hours a week, since it could cause a loss of what are the mental capabilities and result in the risk of dementia (taking into account other aggravating factors ranging from lifestyle little balanced, misconduct diet, poor sleep hygiene..). The subjects too stressed on the work as well as having language difficulties could affect short term memory and make less in their own business or have some loss of productivity, then for a mechanism of reaction the person seeking to find support.. maybe end up in alcohol worsen the situation, be noted that also the excessive use of the computer (type alienator) can cause health problems and loss of attention.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 27, 2009                         n°:   912

Check the emotions by writing a diary

In a study done by controlling the mental processes of two groups of volunteers that were describing on a diary their emotions for about twenty minutes a day, but differentiating the test as it was a neutral kind of experience or a recent, it was noted in this last case that the right prefrontal ventrolateral cortex was especially active, as happen for the intense emotions. Writing a diary may also be useful to analyze simply the emotions, thanks to for example the expressive activity allowed from the composition of poems, stories or any other kind of experience particularly of abstract type. To note that in men the positive effect of writing a diary would seem greater than in women because usually the female is used to describe their emotions by finding the words and phrases most appropriate.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 17, 2009                         n°:   903

Motor skills rehabilitated with stimulations

Individuals suffering from brain damage and stroke, which may hamper motor skills might have benefited from a new type of therapy that stimulates the primary motor cortex of the brain through a mild electrical stimulation, whose effectiveness has been demonstrated by comparing two groups of people in which they were applied electrodes on the head, but to control the electrical stimulation were in practice only simulated. The voluntary movements of the body (eyes, hands, feet..) are the so-called motor skills and requires a long period of time and training to ensure that the brain can learn being awake and vigilant, then during the rest is done the phase of consolidation. Other studies have shown how important is to try to avoid suffering of the blows to the head to counter the onset of degenerative diseases and in any case appear to be useful to keep in exercise the mind as a factor in prevention.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 31, 2009                         n°:   889

Switches of house controlled with the mind

With a strip of electrodes placed on the head some Italian scientists have been able to successfully test a type of domestic environment in which the switches are controlled with the thought, whose signals are analyzed by a computer that converts brain waves into electrical impulses with for example, is possible turn on or off the lights, open doors, use a telephone and even control a small robot.. all in a project of automated domotics and activated by mental commands. Developing this kind of technology should be possible (within about three years) to help disabled people making wheelchairs whose movements are controlled by the mind and it seems that also the accuracy of the signals is now pretty accurate and is much improved with the recent adjournments made to the electronics, but they still needed two or three attempts to implement the command over to a small period of training.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 24, 2009                         n°:   883

Chemistry of love and emotions

The news that seems to be possible to fall in love a person simply to give him oxytocin or other various chemical components and that all depends of the love stage from neurochemical stimuli in particular areas in the brain confirms the theory of some great personalities that did not hesitate to define the love at the level of physical attraction as a kind of drugs that cloud the discernment or a disease to eradicate and treat in any way (a vile and morbid sense, far from being really good, poetic, high, enough to realize.. that the "true" life began when it was released by this drug). In the past, was identified that the same emotions depends from specific areas of the brain, and that subjects in which they were damaged by the tests appeared to be deprived in some way by the emotional feelings (but we must however not equate the soul.. with the mind).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 10, 2009                         n°:   871

Genetics least important of mental education

To believe that genetics is the most important parameter to outline what are the capabilities of any mental or nervous disorders is probably a mistake, in fact new studies showed that the education to the learning of matters that require special skills of the mind, for example the study of mathematics in the boy, can be crucial in determining the development of intelligence. With regard to certain debilitating diseases that occur primarily in the elderly appears that there may be a correlation between sleep disturbed by uncontrolled movements and increase in percentage of cases of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's and dementia, since it is assumed damage in areas of the brain that control sleep in the REM phase and prevent the body to any kind of movement or action, and in these cases could be useful to use strategies aimed for the prevention.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 29, 2008                         n°:   862

Test on dementia based on the sarcasm

A new test could be used to diagnose a fairly common type of dementia and even replace more expensive tests and on the whole less reliable, in fact Australian scientists have noticed that patients suffering from frontotemporal dementia could not understand when the conversation took sarcastic tones for the use of humorous terms than a kind of neutral language (unlike, for instance, of the Alzheimer patients). Patients who suffer from frontotemporal dementia also suffer behavioral changes and fail to understand the mood of their assistants and this attitude may cause resentment in families trying to help relatives that may not reciprocate positively affectionate gestures, and in the past some researches indicated as assistants heavily stressed could commit mistakes or to cause of the nervous tension disorders, to have different types of disturbances or also to become ill.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 13, 2008                         n°:   851

A case of textbook amnesia

Is recently died in America at the age of 82 years old Henry Molaison who had cognitive disorders and seizures because of a strong blow to the head to nine years immediately being overwhelmed by a cyclist, and after having tried many types of care to the age of seventeen years he underwent a delicate surgery to Hartford to try to remove various splinters from the brain, but the operation affect the hippocampus an important area which is in depth, which should be the center to the memory.. and this led to a textbook amnesia. In practice, Mr. Molaison recalled only important details of his life, his family and momentous events, but lacked the capacity to store the places where he went, people he met, the sensations felt , so every day was almost a new adventure ever lived and the people with whom he spoke were always unknown (a very unusual case).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 06, 2008                         n°:   845

Learning by imitation

In the daily activities of the brain implements a mechanism for learning through observation both the surrounding area, is of the actions taken by others and from new studies suggests that there is a constant calculation is by taking advantage of some behavior and social learning at the same time from mistakes trying to correct. The areas that normally are activated in the brain that process the information in order to change their behavior as the superior temporal sulcus may reveal possible diseases or the difficulty to express in some subjects, moreover, the anterior cingulate cortex would have an area that processes the advantage that can be achieved by adopting a particular behavior.. Other studies indicated the complexity of the connections between various areas of the brain and mirror neurons that would the role of "record" the actions of others and then repeat it faithfully.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 14, 2008                         n°:   826

DNA sequences of the brain identified

One of the most effective ways to treat serious diseases of the brain as some types of cancer should be to be able to identify the first possible with precision what is the defective gene that causes the uncontrolled growth of the cancer cells, and now thanks to some studies conducted in England it was possible to map about two-thirds of the DNA sequences of the major cancers that affect young people, making it possible in this way to clarify what are the mechanisms on which research should investigate to develop new treatment strategies. As far as the understanding on how the brain functions and any differences between the male and female, it seems from other studies that the two hemispheres are in constant and branched communication independently of the sex (without particular differences), and the connections between neurons and synapse in the various areas changes easily and increase depending of the type of activity.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 03, 2008                         n°:   816

Areas of the brain under observation

The cognitive functions are managed through connections and interactions between different areas of the brain that can process the data that they receive from the senses also independently and a research note that there could also be a kind of race between areas activated in order to perform a task.. for example driving, the striatum area recalls the usual routes in nearly automatically manner, while the hippocampus is involved in driving along a new route allowing orientation, but in some memory disorders prevalence of activation could lead to an individual to commit mistakes without realizing it. In other studies still being tested which seems to have managed to erase the memory selectively through a protein that work by acting on mechanisms of learning, while regarding Alzheimer's the memory disorders could be caused by excess of arachidonic acid and other metabolites in the hippocampus.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 25, 2008                         n°:   810

Brain analyzed and cured

The electromagnetic stimulation of the brain through a magnetic transcranic current could help to recover mental functions in individuals in persistent vegetative coma, as has happened to an American patient who has recovered partially the use of the language after a road accident that has reduced in coma (but also may have been due to a spontaneous recovery). Many studies have been conducted on the brain to analyze what can be the areas that remain inactive for cause of injuries, diseases, of the years.. in many cases are defects between the connections from areas used to process the information that many senses perceive, instead regarding the Alzheimer's seems to preliminary studies that agglomerations of plaques of beta amyloid protein can be dissolved by methylene blue, a common disinfectant consisting of a chemical dye.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 18, 2008                         n°:   804

Prize for physics discussed

Has been awarded the Nobel prize for physics to two Japanese scientists who helped explain the behavior of particles of matter of very small in size and the asymmetry between matter and antimatter (research yet on the theory), but the authorship of the discovery according to some is attributable in truth to an Italian that in 1963 studied the weak interaction and the quarks that annihilated colliding and the excess material that results could be responsible for the visible part of the universe depending on how are divided the particles. To note that Alfred Nobel (Stockholm 1833 - Sanremo 1896) by adding fossil flour has "stabilized" in 1867, the nitroglycerin whose formula was not disclosed by the discoverer Ascanio Sobrero (Casal Monferrato 1812 - Turin 1888) which was concerned about the considerable power that is released from this his chemical preparation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 08, 2008                         n°:   795      

A record prime number

The prime numbers are divisible by themselves and for one, and then only for two positive integers, in a long series from 1, 2, 3, 5 .. up to incalculable numbers for the human mind, but thanks to the processing power of 75 computers networked math at UCLA have discovered a first number from record with thirteen million digits. These are very long prime numbers called Mersenne prime, by the name of the discoverer Marin Mersenne (Oizé 1588 - Paris 1648), that before entering in the Minor Order studied at the famous La Flèche College; also known his friendship with Descartes to that sometimes is accompanied although he has developed an own philosophy of great thickness all in a religion and musical harmonic optics. The doctrine of Mersenne leads to the birth of modern physics or quantitative a kind of "critical empiricism" which comes to justify the miracle that as exceptions to the laws of nature ends to confirm their own.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 29, 2008                         n°:   787

Inventions for the environment

A type of refrigerator patented in 1930 by Einstein and Szilard could be produced on a global scale to protect the environment from the use of freon or other greenhouse gases that for cause of increased demand for household refrigerants especially in developing countries could be released into the air. This type of refrigerator using ammonia, butane and water instead of freon exploiting the principle that the liquid reaches the boiling point at a lower temperature if the pressure is lower (phenomenon verifiable in mountains) and is just a simple pump to activate the mechanism that removes heat from the outside without using compressors and saving electricity. To the study also the synthetic copy of the structure of the diatoms algae that have a very complex silica microporous framework able to deflect the rays of light and in this way to capture solar energy (ecological and free).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 23, 2008                         n°:   782

Innate mathematician sense

In daily life, often known as some people are equipped with special mathematics skills and now the confirmation comes from a study which showed that children particularly good in the complex calculations are equipped with a kind of innate sense for numbers, for example, without a specific training they succeed with a quick glance to assess the environmental differences or calculate the resources immediately available in a practical way. The region of the brain used for the innate calculation would appear to be the intraparietal sulcus (perhaps to be matched to other areas for greater precision of calculation) and also the animals seem to have this capacity for spontaneous able to find with a rapid look the food needed for survival, but these considerations do not exclude the fact that mathematical skills can be improved with training or technical that help to facilitate the complex calculations.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 09, 2008                         n°:   771

A count by elephant

From several time are known the considerable intellectual capacity and calculation of animals and now by a study carried out on elephants would seem that they are almost always able to count the amount of apples contained in two containers (for example four in the first and five in the second), managing to correctly distinguish the container containing the largest number of apples.. compared to other animals would seem more developed the ability to locate the correct difference between two containers not only in cases of obvious visual difference, but even if is only of a single unit. By shifting the attention to an another field of research seems that it is not true that the populations without numerical words in their language are less equipped intellectually in the calculation, in fact Aboriginal children were able to count without particular difficulties the number of objects placed on a tray correctly identifying the objects added even if hidden from the view by a cover.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 25, 2008                         n°:   758

The infinite and the sets of Georg Cantor

Those who were defined paradoxes of the infinite, at least for the human mind, were the mathematician G. Cantor object of intense study and research to limit the ability of the thought, almost a mission on behalf of humanity that can be summed up in its maximum: "I see it, but do not believe!", since there is a match biunivocal without exceptions between the points of a straight line and those of a plan, and a square or a cube would incredibly the same "power" (the concept of infinite sets - equipotent) of the own side. Cantor (1845 Petersburg - Halle 1918) was educated on religious principles from the wealthy merchant and Lutheran father and the mother who came from a family of musicians, he studied in Zurich, Berlin, Göttingen and then taught mathematics at Halle where invented the set theory is that still the basis of modern concepts of "numerousity" and infinite present, work hard opposed by colleagues so that ended up causing in the mathematician various mental disorders and depression resulting in psychiatric hospitalizations, but that gave us a new global vision and has revealed the theory of transfinite numbers (one Universe to be observed with gratitude).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Aug 01, 2008                         n°:   741

Nervous connections decisive

The difference between the intellectual capacity of men compared to other animals could be in the type and complexity of nervous connections, and the size of the brain seem not to be decisive in determining the real intelligence.. and the other hand the elephant has a brain bigger than that. Really, despite the numerous published scientific studies on the brain in humans according to some researchers do not know anything yet of evolutionary path and steps that led to a development of the brain so large (mainly for the lack of specific fossils). The training of the mind through targeted exercises, according to some theories should keep active nervous connections and perhaps to develop certain areas of the brain (for example what of Einstein would be particularly developed), but without exaggeration with the thought "running indefinitely" as has happened to the mathematician G. Cantor with the transfinite numbers for not to affect the intellectual faculties.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 11, 2008                         n°:   706

Training of the mind as athletes

For some time tend to apply the same rules for the physical training even to mind with the same type of stimulation which tend to a progressive "training of the mirror neurons" to learn for a process of imitation, but happen that just as do the athletes of sports that use doping to alter the physical performance, the students committed themselves to overcome complex mnemonic examinations using various stimulants and drugs to treat Alzheimer, narcolepsy or to increase the capacity of the mind. In the future it seems that may need to use anti-doping examinations and tests on the urine in order to stem the phenomenon (including the vast market for medicines in some way related) which may cause serious long-term consequences on mnemonic, cognitive skills, attention.. and according to some might promote dementia damaging the white matter of the brain.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 27, 2008                         n°:   694

Stimulating the intelligence of the child

Reading to the child of small stories or tales before falling asleep seems to be useful to stimulate their intellectual and mnemonic skills, and to promote the whole development, as well as accompany the reading with the fingers of the children to follow in some way the words, the text and to glance the pages seems can promote the mobility faculties. Generally, the development of the language for a child follows a fairly difficult path that starts through the use of onomatopoeic sounds (for example instead of saying dog, says bau..) or to mangle with the pronunciation common terms and perhaps using the same word for many objects and places, then appen that invent their own jargon of fantasy and through an external audit is useful to coincide with the training a particular language with that typical of the game and the discovery (usually it is advisable to help the child to find and say the right term trying to locate thanks to easily intuitively connections and repeat it several times).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 14, 2008                         n°:   684

Trained brain and tablets

The individuals that maintains in exercise the cognitive memory and functions generally have less probability to be hit from insanity; moreover, it would seem that the area of the hyppocampus to the base of the brain placed just over to the spinal cord in the persons hit from Alzheimer is in some case less developed than that monitored in subjects trained in the variegate mnemonic and intellectual field. To signal that the "out of mind tablets" taken from young could cause the rise of the pathology of Alzheimer or to have effects similar to the insanity, but it can happen also as an example to endure fatal damages because of a provoked malignant hyperthermia from the cocktails of disowned substances or anaphylactic choc for intolerance to some chemical member even amplified from the abuse of superalcoholic; therefore, in order to facilitate the perceptions of the senses it is better to train daily the mind with appropriate intellectual exercises.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 18, 2008                         n°:   668

Techniques in order to forget

In order to try to attenuate the consequences on the psychobodily equilibrium of an unpleasant memory can be resorted to several techniques of training autogenous, cognitive behavioural and apposite aimed physical exercises; moreover, now from some studies would seem that a common gas anaesthetic has the property, hindering in the brain the neurochemical communications between hippocampus and amygdala, to avoid that disagreeable emotions are fixed in the memory without almost jeopardize the "normal" memories (experiment verified in percentage confronting the results with a false gas placebo). Moving the attention on other fields of the research some studies in the past signaled as the prayer and the deep meditation could act on the activity of some areas of the brain with effects of cheering up and relaxant type similar to those that can be obtained with the exercises of mental training, with relative benefits also in the cases of memories and stressful emotions.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 14, 2008                         n°:   663

Mental disturbs and training

Thanks to the study of the various area of the brain used after the elaboration of the cognitive data from part of the memory is possible to characterize the zones activated in some mental disturbs that can involve of the difficulties in the memorization in the short term; while normally areas in the single right hemisphere in some subject affected from mental "disturb" would be been involved various areas of the brain that would turn out in some way connected, with the risk to not correctly remember an event (without adapted technical of memorization). As far as instead the infantile tics it seems that some nuclei are been involved placed to the center of the brain (responsible with to other areas also of the movements) with difficulty of communication between the synapses, that they can trigger a series of disturbs in sequence that of usual with the development spontaneously disappear.. "if monitored", but exist also technical of training and specific mnemonic exercises.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 28, 2008                         n°:   649

Brain radiographed and "filmed"

Some of the mechanisms that regulate the activity of the brain is to the study thanks to the magnetic resonance that it has as an example evidenced like in some mental pathologies (anxiety, depression, decrease of attention..) some areas remain constantly active; instead, normally the equilibrium of the function nervous is rendered possible activating temporary only the areas that must elaborate the cognitive information. Little enthusiasm give in this field the news that will be possible to read the thoughts and to visualize the dreams through a species of machine scanner based on the magnetic resonance to images, from which a sort of film of the cerebral activities seems can be gained analyzing with an appropriate software. To notice that some scientists declare openly that still the evolutionary way is not clear that has carried to a such development of the dimensions of the brain in the man and all still adding is known little also of the "mental mechanics".

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 07, 2008                         n°:   634

Chess as exercise for the mind

The news of the death of the champion of chess Bobby Fischer happened the 18/01/08 in Iceland seems because of a renal insufficiency to only 64 years, has relit in the memory of many passionate of this game of strategy the memory of the challenges with international adversaries of value, played to times with "psychological" tactics that began also before the games. The invention of the game of chess is uncertain, for some anciently must be to Palamede king of Eubea in Greece (with to draughts and dice), instead for others it has happened in India and has been diffused before in Persia and then from the V century A.D. it has been diffused in the world and perhaps in Italy it could have been carried in the XI century from the veterans of the first crusade. To play to chess could be an optimal exercise in order to train and to maintain in exercise the mind, from the moment that demands a not indifferent intellectual effort, a sort of "gym" for the brain obliged to imagine several scenarios that of time in time they are introduced in the games and to try to preview the movements of the adversary.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jan 19, 2008                         n°:   597

Firstborns more intelligent in the tests

For a Norwegian study the firstborns sons would have an intellectual quotient slight more high of the second-born sons to how much seems more for environment motivations that for physiological order; in fact probably the parents with the first son would demonstrate more engage both in the procreative activity that in the educational one, instead more would be "relaxed" with the seconds sons, and these last ones growing must also follow the example of the greater brothers in a species of competition that sees them in some way disadvantaged. Watching to the geniuses of the humanity one discovers that were second-born sons is Einstein that Pascal, is Bach that Mozart, therefore evidently important exceptions exist and happen also reading the biography of some supremacy mind.. "last of ten sons", and then also on the effectiveness of the tests that verify the Intelligence Quotient there is who reserves some doubt.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jun 23, 2007                         n°:   443

To train the brain well and forever

In order to try to prevent the devastating effects of the Alzheimer disease, perhaps caused from the amyloid protein plaques with the involvement of acetylcholine a fundamental neurotransmitter for the memory, beyond to a difficult early diagnosis, for the moment the only effective strategy could be that one (according to the "Journal of Neuroscience") to try to train and to stimulate the brain with whichever methods: as an example reading, crossed words, puzzle.. to learn new languages (perhaps also the physical activity, the nourishment naturally rich of antioxidants and the meditation could play an important role) etc. According to somebody it would have to privilege the not pharmacologic therapies, cognitive-behavioral, the musicotherapy instead of those many expensive of usual used and from doubt effectiveness and assigning the money to the support of the families of the sick ones, whose life comes literally upset for the onerous and difficult often to full time assistance.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 06, 2007                         n°:   358

Brain to the mirror

Many of the mechanisms that concur the learning seem that slowly they come reveals from the modern techniques of surveying, as an example would seem that the autism is provoked from one activity rather limited in the brain of the mirror neurons of the premotory cortex; moreover also the schizophrenia could be connected to the reduced development of the grey matter in a precise zone found with the magnetic resonance. Famous is for a long time that the learning is connected to the action of the neurons mirror, practically the brain tend to learn through the imitation like if it were in front of a mirror to imitating, to notice that these functions could be also only drowsy in some diseases like the autism or of the varying syndrome of Asperger (perhaps in some cases with one rehabilitation possibility through the training).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 16, 2006                         n°:   305

Neurons to safeguard

To try of protect the individual patrimony of neurons is a lot important and to how much it seems for one corrected prevention would have to begin with one adequate duration of the sleep and the cure of the hygiene of the rest, then to avoid to smoke or to endure the passive smoke and naturally also the drugs and the chemistries tablets; moreover, for the women to try not to make to interrupt the cycle of ovulation with incorrect diets, medicines and abuse of alcoholic or other behaviors little balances. To notice that it would seem that who had the misadventure to endure chemotherapy treatments also the memory it could turn out weaken for the loss of neurons; perhaps therefore it would be opportune to try to prevent the tumors consuming fruits and vegetables in abundance (trying to avoid the vegetables overflows from pesticide and phitopharmacy).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Dec 11, 2006                         n°:   300

To train the mind lighting off the TV

In order to maintain in shape the mind it could be useful to resolve complicates puzzle, than for the report they could have been devised from Leonardo from Vinci (with a remarkable example of concatenation with the musical notes) and to read books instead of watching the television, that seems can weaken the brain if watched more than an hour to the day, from the moment that removes useful time to the training of the mind in its several shapes. As is well-known also an healthy and balanced rich nutrition of fruit and vegetables make part of the training of the mind and would seem that using as spice the curry can be tried to prevent the Alzheimer, thanks to the presence of the curcumina as anti-oxidant [for one study of the University of Singapore]. As far as the cure of the by now spreading pathology of the Alzheimer (perhaps identifiable in future also from amyloid protein trace present in the blood), unfortunately it does not seem that they are many effective cures available; therefore it could be useful to at least to try to prevent with an intense training of the mind.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Nov 04, 2006                         n°:   273

Hector Maiorana religious physicist

In occasion of the centenarian birthday of the physicist Hector Majorana been born to Catania in 1906, have been shown some dense notes of mathematic calculations of this exceptional mind defined from the colleague and prize Nobel Henry Fermi (that he was also his teacher), to the level of that one of Galilei and Newton. In 1938 the young physicist after to have obtained for exceptional merits a desk to the University of Naples, disappeared mysteriously and the investigations leave to think that "he has abandoned the world" for the faith that accompanied him in order to enter in a Franciscan convent. The last book that published in 1937 was "Symmetrical theory of the electron and the positron" and his last studies seems that inquired on the field of the magnetism where the scientist was perhaps reached to one exceptional discovered. - [17/10/10] A photo portray the physicist with nazis.. then confirmed his presence in South America.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Jul 12, 2006                         n°:   211

Always ready mind to all the ages

Some Japanese investigators support that in order to remain juvenile in late age could be quite more useful and favorable to maintain in shape and to train the mind that to concentrate itself on like not making to age the body. In theory also the simple game could be useful in order to exercise the mind beyond naturally carrying out of the activities that engage the inventiveness and the creativity also in late age (but this to the usual seems easy in theory and difficult practically, it would be enough to enter in a hospice in order to verify).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 26, 2006                         n°:   178

Sigmund Freud and the unconscious

In occasion of one hundred fifty anniversary from birth of Sigmund the Freud (born in Moravia in 1856 - died to London in 1939), comes transmitted documentary on this brilliant and discussed Hebrew doctor, a lot opposed to Vienna where it lived and instead much prized after the dead. His psychoanalytic theories and analyses still are used and also the theses supported in the famous book "The interpretation of the dreams" arouse alive interest. Freud founded in 1903 the "Society Psychoanalytic Viennese" an independent school from other academic institutes, from which many celebrate analysts between which Jung drew inspiration (that contested the methods of the colleague giving life to a new type of psychoanalytic surveying).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    May 06, 2006                         n°:   160

Brain analyzed to the computer

A study carried out from the Michigan University confronting the Tac of healthy individuals with those of subjects that suffered from the obsessive-compulsive disturbance of the behavior, has characterized in the front cortex rostral cingolate the region of the brain been involved for that disagreeable sense of responsibility that derives having carried out an error, (in practical those nail that torture us in infinites guilt senses). Well-known relief from this can be had disturbance also with the techniques of the relaxation and the training autogenous; between the other to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been instrumentally observed that the neurons of the rats memorize the information learned on the ambience in the pause moments and this mechanism would have to be equal also in the men, therefore to take itself of the moments of relaxant reflection could be useful is in order memorize the slight knowledge that for to calm the guilt senses (and avoiding to hurry uselessly in thousand activities).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 13, 2006                         n°:   141

Stressed motorcyclists

Would seem that many motorcyclists involved in street incidents of varied type and gravity have previously endured a personal trauma that the emotional sphere and probably put to the test has been involved the nervous equilibrium. It must however to find that in this spring period, accomplices the beautiful days and myths temperatures to swarm motorcycles and mopeds from all the parts, and if have the misadventure of being to the guide of a car while a column of noisiest motorcycles is intercrossed that invade good part of the street, indeed becomes difficult to dodge the mopeds that pop out meantime without respecting the crossings. Sure then, the pilots unload the stress accumulated during the winter who on the mountain roads maintain averages time from great prize of motorcycling, making literally to make a leap to the heart of the motorists that find them in the wrong direction in the bend of the roads curves (folds in forms plastic and ready to dodge with a blow of gas, but attention not to risk too much..).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Apr 05, 2006                         n°:   134

Forgetful smokers

In a journalistic service it has been introduced a study that would demonstrate the loss of memory in the callous boys cannabis smokers, regarding the healthy contemporary, than in the tests on the memory they would turn out very more ready and precise. It could come in mind, but, than these boys "smokes" just try to forget some uneasiness, to the par of what it happens with alcoholics (then would be opportune to try to carry relief to the cause of the suffering and then to treat for smoke definitively).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Mar 18, 2006                         n°:   119

Thousand of centenarians

Are by now thousands the centenarians in Italy and many investigators ask which are the causes of this longevity; in fact it seems that the factors to value are multiple, as an example the living conditions make to increase the survival index simply moving from a quarter of one city to an other wealthier zone. The economy and the genetics plays a fundamental role, but many old persons have caught up considerable ages also living in hard conditions and having surmounted wars, serious crises, diseases; and it seems that is resolutions in this objective removing partially the memory of the more painful experiences (one technical of training that many know to use in unconscious way).

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Feb 02, 2006                         n°:   90

The aerobic gymnastic stimulates the brain

Beyond to the famous benefits over the body and in particular on the cardiovascular system, the aerobic gymnastic stimulates new logons in the neurons and the increase of capillary in the brain avoiding the decay in the time of the mental faculties. The chemical substance produced with the aerobic exercise has been called derived neurotropic factor, from the discoverer Ian Robertson [Dublin University].

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 24, 2005                         n°:   38

Relaxation and headache

Some scientists supports that for diminishing annoying provokes from the headache are many effective the relaxation techniques than of medicines (that some accuse to provoke, if used for long periods, just acute crises of headache). Remarkable also the saving from the economic point of view and the resource to pain-killers, learning an effective technique of teaching relaxation from simple or one specialist [source: University of Trondheim]

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Oct 20, 2005                         n°:   31

Penicillin for the neurologic diseases

A new study signals the use of penicillin and derives for the neurological disease of the mind (ictus and lateral amiotrophic sclerosis), but for now is only a experimentation.

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 29, 2005                         n°:   26

Gymnasium for the mind

For the scientist Elkhonon Goldberg the mind can be exercised and be maintained in shape like the body in gymnasium, with apposite exercises. [source: NY University Medicines]

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Tel:   +39 338 1809310          Date:    Sep 10, 2005                         n°:   3

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