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Friday, October 24, 2008, 07:00 PM: Life Extension with Jerry Emanuelson

Jerry will be talking about his 25+ year experience with life extension treatments, including hormone injections, his longevity doctor, what treatments to ask a doctor for, how to find and guide a doctor, an interesting example of the 'medical priesthood vs. empowered patient' conflict as more healthcare treatments are about prevention/enhancement, getting his DNA scanned with deCODEme and opensourcing his genome on the SNPedia.com, and more.

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Impulsiveness Linked To Activity In Brain's Reward Center

A new imaging study shows that our brains react with varying sensitivity to reward and suggests that people most susceptible to impulse - those who need to buy it, eat it, or have it, now - show the greatest activity in a reward center of the brain. In their study of 45 subjects, researchers showed that activity in the ventral striatum, a core component of the brain's reward circuitry, correlated with individuals' impulsiveness.

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