Many patients lack the numerical skills to make good health decisions, study finds

"Patients in medical offices should be screened for how well developed their numerical skills are to weigh their medical options, reports a new Cornell study.

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Putting a price on procrastination

David Laibson knows that when he procrastinates, mere deadlines are not always enough to get him going.

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Brain implant better than meds for Parkinson's disease

People with Parkinson's disease who have a pacemaker-like device implanted in the brain spend an extra four-plus hours a day free of tremors and involuntary movements than they do on medication, according to the largest study of the treatment, which is known as deep brain stimula …

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Why your brain can't always make good decisions

"We all make bad decisions sometimes. In some contexts, to a certain extent, psychologists know why. But other researchers are working on showing that, when it comes to more basic judgments, we're not so bad."

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Think Progress » Huckabee Downplays Violence Against Gays: Christians Are Having Their Crosses Taken From Them Too

Huckabee: "the gay rights movement hasn't suffered enough violence to be a real civil rights issue..." Jesus F****** Christ, what the hell is wrong with people like this? Honestly, does a movement by a group of people in the United States of America have to face violence in or …

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The Brain that Changes Itself : The Nature of Things with David Suzuki

Join us as we explore the revolutionary science of "neuroplasticity" - a concept that expands not just our knowledge of how our brains work, but how we use them.

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Bush Appointees Land Career Science Jobs With Seemingly Unrelated Backgrounds

The president of the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering scientific policies, saying the result would be  …

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British doctors help perform world's first transplant of a whole organ grown in lab - Telegraph

"Surgeons replaced the damaged windpipe of Claudia Castillo, a 30-year-old mother of two, with one created from stem cells grown in a laboratory at Bristol University. Because the new windpipe was made from cells taken from Ms Castillo's own body, using a process called "tissue  …

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CIA Misled Congress, Justice Dept. Over 2001 Incident, Probe Finds

"The CIA repeatedly misled Congress and the Justice Department in their investigations of the 2001 shoot-down of a Peruvian plane carrying U.S. missionaries, according to findings of an internal CIA probe released today by congressional officials."

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Ariz. Governor Said to Be Pick For Homeland Security Post

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Tom Daschle: Health And Human Services Secretary

Tom Daschle the new Secretary of Health and Human Services.

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Study: Republicans Stymie Sensitive Medical Research

I must say it still boggles my mind why so-called Christians, and Republicans are so against scientific research that's conducted to help other people.

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Gingrich On Prop 8 Protests: "Gay and Secular Fascism ... Prepared To Use Violence"

(Vomit.)

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Education Policymakers, Researchers Call for Amending Education Law

"Dr. Clancy Blair, a professor of applied psychology at New York University says a lack of school readiness is setting some kids back from the start.

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Keep Stoking the Positivity -- Our Future Depends On It

"Science suggests that when we experience genuine, heartfelt positive emotions in a 3-to-1 ratio with negative emotions, we cross a psychological tipping point on the other side of which we function at our very best. Knowing the importance and promise of positivity is one thing.

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At the Intersection of Emotion and Cognition: Aging and the Positivity Effect

Everyone ages. The bad news is that you start to get old cognitively, in early adulthood, and the decline continues through the rest of one's life. The news is not all bad however, as researchers have shown. Dr. Joseph Mikels at Cornell University, is one such researcher.

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Awaiting dawn of "Obamanomics" -

"The man who Barack Obama will be looking to for economic guidance is Austan Goolsbee, a professor at the University of Chicago Business School. Goolsbee has been the principal economic adviser to Obama since Obama ran for the U.S.

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Autistic people 'make more rational decisions'

A new study has found that people with autism-related disorders are less likely to make irrational decisions, and are less influenced by gut instincts. The study contributes to the growing body of research implicating altered emotional processing in autism.

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Even brief interruptions can change purchase decisions

A new study from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has revealed that even a brief interruption while making purchases can significantly effect purchasing decisions.

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Control Your Fears in a Fearsome Market

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The Threat Of Terrorism And Support For The 2008 Presidential Candidates: Results Of A National Field Experiment

Terror management theory posits that threats to a person's mortality, or making one more aware of their mortality - mortality salience - leads to greater adherence to one's worldview.

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Lab Notes : Train Your Mind, Kick Your Craving

"Can you think your way out of addiction? Maybe not yet, but the latest results from the burgeoning field of research that examines how mental training can alter the brain—and therefore behavior—say the rest of the answer may be 'but probably soon.'"

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Fear of loss drives eBay buyers

"Economists typically attribute excessive bidding to risk aversion, or the joy of winning. What we found is that the actual cause of overbidding is a fear of losing, a completely new theory from past investigations."

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Marshmallow temptations, brain scans could yield vital lessons in self-control

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