Movie: Jane

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Check out this interview with Jane Goodall on her new documentary about her and her life's work. Here is the list of theaters showing it currently.

Exercise for Better Memory!

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Well I hope you have heard you should not stop exercising during finals week as exercise will help your memory in various ways...it will help you sleep better and proper sleep is crucial for memory and as you will see in this video if you stop exercising it will reduce blood flow to the hippocampus. Lack of exercise long term will cause even more severe neurodegenerative diseases. It also does not take that much exercise per week, so as the slogan goes..."Just do it!"

The Benefits of Singing in a Choir!

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Would you like to increase your mood, lower your stress & improve your immune system in just one hour? If your answer is Yes...join a choir! Research looking at 193 cancer patients found even the most in need of great benefit from singing in a choir.

Is Human & Animal Depression the Same?

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Researchers are attempting to use rodents and non-human primates who they believe are suffering  from depression to actually help treat humans suffering from depression. The researchers have not found any useful insights thus far but are still hopeful. Part of difficulty is confirming whether the animals are really suffering from depression (mental illness) or are just sad. Check out the article to see how they are operationally defining depression in animals and what they used to treat they animals.