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Hunger, thirst, stress and drugs can create a change in the brain that transforms a repulsive feeling into a strong positive "wanting," a new University of Michigan study indicates.
The research used salt appetite to show how powerful natural mechanisms of brain desires can instantly transform a cue that always predicted a repulsive Dead Sea Salt solution into an eagerly wanted beacon or motivational magnet.
Mike Robinson, a research fellow in the U-M Department of Psychology and the study's lead author, said the findings help explain how related brain activations in people could cause them to avidly want something that has been always disliked.
This instant transformation of motivation, he said, lies in the ability of events to activate particular brain circuitry?a structure called the nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the front of the brain and is also activated by addictive drugs.
Cues for rewards often trigger intense motivation. The smell of food can make a person suddenly feel hungry when this wasn't the case earlier. Drug cues may prompt relapse in addicts trying to quit. In some cases, desires may be triggered even for a relatively unpleasant event.
Researchers studied how rats responded to metal objects that represented either pleasant sugar or disgustingly intense Dead Sea saltiness. The rats quickly learned to jump on and nibble the sweetness cue, but turned away from and avoided the saltiness cue.
But one day the rats suddenly woke up in a new state of sodium appetite induced by drugs given the night before. On their first re-encounter with the saltiness cue in the new appetite state, their brain systems became activated and the rats instantly jumped on and nibbled the saltiness cue as though it were the sugar cue.
"The cue becomes avidly 'wanted' despite knowledge the salt always tasted disgusting," Robinson said.
The sudden brain changes help explain how an event, such as taking an addictive drug, could become "wanted" despite a person's knowledge of the negative and unpleasant consequences of the drug.
"Our findings highlight what it means to say that drugs hijack our natural reward system," said Robinson, who authored the new study with Kent Berridge, James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience.
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Feb. 6, 2013 ? People who grew up in states where it was legal to drink alcohol before age 21 are more likely to be binge drinkers later in life, according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The findings are available online in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
The researchers tracked the long-term drinking behavior of more than 39,000 people who began consuming alcohol in the 1970s, when some states had legal drinking ages as low as 18.
"It wasn't just that lower minimum drinking ages had a negative impact on people when they were young," explains first author Andrew D. Plunk, PhD, a post-doctoral research fellow in psychiatry. "Even decades later, the ability to legally purchase alcohol before age 21 was associated with more frequent binge drinking."
The study shows that people who lived in states with lower minimum drinking ages weren't more likely to consume more alcohol overall or to drink more frequently than those from states where the drinking age was 21, but when they did drink, they were more likely to drink heavily.
The effect was most pronounced among men who did not attend college. And the researchers say the findings should be a warning to those who advocate lowering the minimum drinking age.
"Binge drinking on college campuses is a very serious problem," Plunk says. "But it's also important not to completely forget about young people who aren't on college campuses. In our study, they had the greatest risk of suffering the long-term consequences linked to lower drinking ages."
Plunk and his colleagues found that even decades later, men who grew up in states with a legal drinking age lower than 21 were 19 percent more likely to binge drink more than once per month. Among those who didn't go to college, the odds of binging more than once a month increased by 31 percent.
Through surveys conducted in the early 1990s and again in the early 2000s, the researchers tracked the average daily alcohol intake, overall drinking frequency and the frequency of binge episodes -- defined as five or more drinks during a single period of drinking for a man or four-plus drinks for a woman. They also looked at how often a person drank but did not binge, which is thought to be a less harmful drinking pattern.
"There's a difference between tracking average daily consumption of alcohol and measuring drinking patterns," explains senior author Richard A. Grucza, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry. "Merely tracking average daily consumption can hide harmful drinking patterns. Averaging one drink per day doesn't sound like much, but if that same person has all their drinks for the week in one sitting, well that's a potential problem."
Due to concerns about binge drinking on college campuses, some policymakers think that lowering the drinking age may encourage college students to moderate their alcohol use.
"The 'take away message' is that we need to consider all of the potential consequences of changing the drinking age," Plunk explains. "We shouldn't be too narrow in our focus when we think about how young people are affected by these laws. This study shows there's a large population that benefitted from a higher legal drinking age. Laws apply to everyone, but if they are based only on the impact on one group like college students, we may end up forgetting about how those laws affect other people."
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I have such a fun recipe to share today!
Have you ever made a cake in your slow cooker?
Did you know you could make a cake in your slow cooker?
Well, it turns out you can.
And it can turn out really good too!
If y'all follow my blog, then you know I'm a fan of these Gooseberry Patch cookbooks.
Why?
Because they are chock full of recipes from everyday home cooks.
No test recipes here. ?Do you ever feel when you buy a new cookbook sometimes and try some of the recipes that you wonder, "Did anyone actually make this??".
With so many recipes coming at you from all different angles these days because of the internet and all the thousands of new cookbooks, it's hard to know the good from the bad.
Lots of recipes are not tested. Some aren't ever made more than once by the recipe creators.
But not these recipes.
These are tried and true recipes from folks that are your friends, your neighbors and?
maybe even your Mom and Grandma! Real, everyday recipes (225 to be exact).
Sure, we all like to tweak a recipe here and there to make it our own but you know when you try these recipes, the recipe as a whole will work and taste good.
This particular book focuses on the slow cooker (a.k.a. the Crock Pot).
It gives recipes that can help you use your Crock Pot all year round.
Some folks are more inclined to use theirs in the summer months so they don't have to turn on the oven and heat up the house. ?But it can be used all the time.
And y'all know how much I love my slow cooker, so I was so excited to get this?
cookbook in my hands!
There are recipes in here for soups, stews, beans, sides, drinks and even dessert!
And you know it was the chocolate dessert that screamed out to me to be made.
I had to try it as soon as I saw it because I was curious why it was called a Hot Fudge Sundae Cake. ?I thought, "Where's the fudge part?"
Well, you will see!
NOTE: This recipe calls for a 2-3 quart slow cooker. I don't own one that small.
My smallest slow cooker is 4.5 quarts. So I doubled this recipe to make it work for my slow cooker. ?Please keep this in mind if you make this recipe.
Ingredients:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
6 tbsp. baking cocoa powder (divided use)
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup milk
2 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
1 1/2 cups hot water
Ummm...the white sugar, oil & vanilla extract are not in this picture.
Apparently they missed the casting call.
Directions:
Spray a 2-3 quart slow cooker (see my note above about the size of the slow cooker) with nonstick cooking spray.
For baking, I like to use this kind that has flour in it.
In a bowl, sift together flour, sugar, 2 tablespoons cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
I don't own a flour sifter so I just took a long-tined fork and stirred it up real good.
Then stir in milk, oil and vanilla extract.
Give it all a good stir until combined, then fold in nuts (if using).
Spread batter evenly into your slow cooker.
In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar and remaining cocoa powder.
Stir in hot water until smooth.
Pour evenly over batter in slow cooker.
DO NOT STIR. <--- I'm breaking out the Caps Lock here to emphasize :)
Cover and cook on high setting for 2-2 1/2 hours (it took about ?2 1/2 hours for mine to bake).
To test if it is done, stick a toothpick into the center.I think it definitely calls for a scoop of ice cream!
Enjoy!
Recipe submitted by Gloria Robertson of Midland, TX and can be found on page 158.
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All opinions in this post are my own.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's main opposition alliance has got itself into a muddle by appearing to endorse a call for the overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, then backing away.
"The NSF will fully align to the demands of the Egyptian people calling to topple the regime of tyranny and domination of the Muslim Brotherhood," a statement by the National Salvation Front issued late on Saturday said.
After a week of violence between protesters and the security forces in which 59 people have died, it called for Mursi, his interior minister and "all his partners in those crimes" to be investigated and put on trial for "killings, torture and illegal detentions".
"The NSF supports all forms of peaceful protest to achieve these demands, and calls for the Egyptians to rally peacefully in all the streets of Egypt in defense of Egyptian dignity."
The Front includes liberal politicians such as former U.N. nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei and former Arab League chief Amr Moussa, who last week signed a statement mediated by the country's leading Muslim scholar renouncing violence and calling for a national dialogue.
However, the NSF's spokesman, Khaled Daoud, said on Monday the coalition of liberal, social democratic and leftist parties was not demanding the removal of Egypt's first democratically elected president just seven months after he took office.
"We are not calling for the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi right now. We believe he is elected but that doesn't give him the right to change all the rules of the game," Daoud told Reuters.
Ahmed Kamal, a spokesman for Moussa's Congress Party, said the wording had been chosen carefully to warn against "any violent practices and new dictatorship" without questioning Mursi's democratic legitimacy.
The NSF said it would not engage in dialogue until what it called the bloodbath had stopped, those responsible were tried, and the opposition's previously stated demands were met.
Those demands include forming a national unity government, which Mursi has rejected before parliamentary elections due in April, and revising a controversial Islamist-leaning constitution adopted last December.
OUTRAGE
The statement was issued in reaction to an incident that sparked public outrage in which police were caught on video beating and dragging a naked man during a protest on Friday.
The man, Hamada Saber, 48, was shown on state television in a police hospital saying protesters had stripped him. He later reversed his statement and told a public prosecutor that riot police were responsible for the attack.
Another activist picked up by police in Cairo's central Tahrir Square on January 25 and later taken unconscious to a hospital died of his wounds on Monday, prompting fresh accusations of police brutality by human rights groups.
Mohamed el-Gendi, 23, was a member of the Popular Current party. Doctors at Hilal hospital said Gendi was in a coma when he died and had suffered brain damage and multiple fractures.
The president's office said it was investigating the causes of Gendi's death as well as the televised incident involving Saber, and insisted there would be no return to the violations of human rights that prevailed before the 2011 uprising that toppled former President Hosni Mubarak.
Opposition critics say little has changed, the interior ministry remains unreformed and the police have not been purged.
A brief clash erupted on Monday when young mourners carrying the body of one of latest two protesters to die of wounds threw stones and metal objects at riot police guarding the British Embassy, near Tahrir Square, site of a permanent protest encampment. The police fired tear gas to disperse them.
The hardline Islamist Nour Party accused the opposition of stoking youth violence for political gain to try to oust the president.
A statement on the Salafist Nour Party website condemned what it called unrealistic demands "such as overthrowing the legitimate president or calling for early presidential elections or calling for amendments to the constitution far removed from the correct way as stated in the constitution".
An opposition official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the NSF leadership was trying to give political voice to the anger of the street protesters rather than goading them on.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypt-opposition-muddle-over-call-oust-mursi-141541090.html
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They are super fun and can even be useful, but live wallpapers do drain battery life quicker than regular wallpapers. We have featured a couple of really fun live wallpapers on Lifehacker. We've also shown you an app that can turn your Facebook photos into live wallpaper.
Now, we'd like to know:
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