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- April 13, 2011
- 10:55 AM
- 1,067 views
Enhancing Mood and Performance with Distraction
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
To begin, a reminder that I do not sign your timesheet, nor am I responsible for your pay or promotion. So you may want to discuss these research findings with your supervisor before hitting the play button. That said, have you seen any funny videos lately? Like the “OK, Go” on treadmills video? Or maybe you have [...]... Read more »
Nadler RT, Rabi R, & Minda JP. (2010) Better mood and better performance. Learning rule-described categories is enhanced by positive mood. Psychological science : a journal of the American Psychological Society / APS, 21(12), 1770-6. PMID: 20974709
- February 23, 2011
- 01:56 PM
- 935 views
Inherited Gifts May Not Include a Long Life
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
Perhaps we are what we eat, but suddenly we can no longer rely on our parents, that is our genetic makeup, to determine how long we live. At least not according to Swedish researchers who published recently in the Journal of Internal Medicine. To be honest, “suddenly” is a bit of a misnomer; the study from which the [...]... Read more »
Wilhelmsen L, Svärdsudd K, Eriksson H, Rosengren A, Hansson PO, Welin C, Odén A, & Welin L. (2010) Factors associated with reaching 90 years of age: a study of men born in 1913 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Journal of internal medicine. PMID: 21175902
- March 17, 2010
- 01:53 PM
- 867 views
Leptin Resurrected: Leptin Therapy in Type I Diabetes
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
An online science news item jumped out at me the other day, news about leptin and it’s potential use in type I diabetes. While leptin was certainly familiar, it’s recollection brought vague feelings of disappointment. Wasn’t leptin the naturally occurring fat burning compound that was going to make us all thin?
In case you too are [...]... Read more »
Wang MY, Chen L, Clark GO, Lee Y, Stevens RD, Ilkayeva OR, Wenner BR, Bain JR, Charron MJ, Newgard CB.... (2010) Feature Article: Leptin therapy in insulin-deficient type I diabetes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID: 20194735
- September 3, 2010
- 12:43 PM
- 781 views
Your Home: A Cancer Survival Tool?
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
Research published in Cell, July 9, 2010, provides compelling evidence for an environmental component for cancer survival, that is a macro environmental component. While other studies have examined the effects of diet and exercise and even toxicological components on cancer susceptibility, Cao et al. studied mice living in an “enriched housing environment” that included more [...]... Read more »
Cao L, Liu X, Lin EJ, Wang C, Choi EY, Riban V, Lin B, & During MJ. (2010) Environmental and genetic activation of a brain-adipocyte BDNF/leptin axis causes cancer remission and inhibition. Cell, 142(1), 52-64. PMID: 20603014
- September 1, 2010
- 02:04 PM
- 750 views
Prairie Dogs: Small Creatures, Big Vocabulary
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
It is summer, July already! Vacation time for kids and the people that love them. Though many years past, I recall fondly one of our first family trips to the Black Hills of South Dakota. While en route, we stopped in the Badlands National Park. Though the Badlands might appear a barren, treeless desert (and [...]... Read more »
Slobodchikoff CN, Paseka A, & Verdolin JL. (2009) Prairie dog alarm calls encode labels about predator colors. Animal cognition, 12(3), 435-9. PMID: 19116730
- August 9, 2010
- 01:03 PM
- 688 views
From Gray Wolf to Bulldog: Changes to the Dog Brain as Humans Reshape it’s Head
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
We humans are masters of reinvention. And we love our dogs. Over the past 12,000 years we’ve mixed that love of innovation and love of dogs, to create a species with more physical variation than any other species on Earth. Much of this innovation has served us well. Domesticated dogs have protected our livestock and [...]... Read more »
Roberts T, McGreevy P, & Valenzuela M. (2010) Human induced rotation and reorganization of the brain of domestic dogs. PloS one, 5(7). PMID: 20668685
- March 16, 2011
- 01:02 PM
- 669 views
Vitamin D: How Supplements Affect Serum 25(OH)D Levels
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
A few years ago a dietician friend sent me an interview with Dr. Michael Holick about vitamin D deficiency. I was stunned by the long reach of this vitamin on human health and physiology. In the past 5–7 years interest in vitamin D deficiency and reports on its connection to various chronic conditions in humans, [...]... Read more »
Cedric F. Garland, Christine B. French, Leo L. Baggerly, Robert P. Heaney. (2011) Vitamin D Supplement Doses and Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D in the Range Associated with Cancer Prevention. Anticancer Research, 607-612. info:/21378345
- January 10, 2011
- 01:53 PM
- 594 views
Can a Font Make You Smarter?
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
Today is the second Monday of the New Year, January 10, 2011 and we are returning to work, school and normal life, you know, the one without endless shopping, cooking and preparing. Hopefully most of your holiday 2010 remembrances are fond ones…the greetings, baked goods, travel, gifts…all good. Hold on. The greetings; was there was [...]... Read more »
Diemand-Yauman, C., Oppenheimer, D., & Vaughan, E. (2011) Fortune favors the (): Effects of disfluency on educational outcomes. Cognition, 118(1), 111-115. DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.09.012
- November 17, 2010
- 12:40 PM
- 590 views
Learning to Read: A Brain Changing Experience
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
A friend and I were recently taking a stroll down memory lane—remembering elementary school in our respective cities in the Midwest (USA). We were comparing notes on having to read aloud to our classmates—remember that? It was a small group activity, and embarrassing when you came across a word you’d not read or pronounced before. [...]... Read more »
Dehaene S, Pegado F, Braga LW, Ventura P, Filho GN, Jobert A, Dehaene-Lambertz G, Kolinsky R, Morais J, & Cohen L. (2010) How Learning to Read Changes the Cortical Networks for Vision and Language. Science (New York, N.Y.). PMID: 21071632
- March 9, 2012
- 12:29 PM
- 215 views
A Food for Happiness? Go Fish
by Kari Kenefick in Promega Connections
We’ve heard that omega-3 fatty acids, such as those from various fish sources, have important anti-inflammatory, as well as cardiac health benefits. In fact, WebMD has an Omega-3 Fatty Acid Fact Sheet with so much positive health information that you may add “Buy wild-caught salmon” to your list of things to do on the way home [...]... Read more »
Lafourcade M, Larrieu T, Mato S, Duffaud A, Sepers M, Matias I, De Smedt-Peyrusse V, Labrousse VF, Bretillon L, Matute C.... (2011) Nutritional omega-3 deficiency abolishes endocannabinoid-mediated neuronal functions. Nature neuroscience, 14(3), 345-50. PMID: 21278728
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