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On day 3 of the Experimental Biology conference, I listened to a fascinating talk on cognitive dysfunction following chemotherapy, how we can study it, and how we might go about treating it. Check it out.

For day 2 of Experimental Biology, I found an interesting poster on a new chemical, found in slime mold, that might have therapeutic potential for breast cancer treatment! Enjoy! We are always looking for new cancer treatments. Each type of cancer is different, from breast cancer to lung cancer or pancreatic, and there are also different subtypes of cancers within each type of cancer. Your breast cancer can be estrogen receptor positive or negative, and this can drastically effect what kind of treatments may work best.

I spent the first day of Experimental Biology 2012 at the Behavioral Pharmacology Meeting, where people who focus on drugs and behavior came to share the latest and greatest findings.

You've probably had the feeling. Your running shoes are pounding the pavement--then suddenly your pain fades away, and you're feeling euphoric

A quarter of all police shootings involve unarmed suspects. In a few recent cases, officers mistook cell phones and hairbrushes for guns, and shot and killed the victims. Now a study may explain--in part--these errors.

In December, MIT Media Lab researchers caused a stir by releasing a slow-motion video of a burst of light traveling the length of a plastic bottle. But the experimental setup that enabled that video was designed for a much different application: a camera that can see around corners.

Saying you are fond of someone might make you actually like that person, according to a study in the October 2011 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes . Psychologists showed 39 students a series of photographs of people who had been previously judged as neither pleasant nor unpleasant and instructed them to say the word “likable” or “unlikable” while viewing each one.

“Time is money” sounds like an efficient strategy. But such a perspective could undermine your overall happiness, according to a study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology (PDF.) [More]

How did the zebra get its stripes? One theory holds that stripes help confuse predators. But stripes might be primarily to protect zebras from ferocious…insects

Two essential steps for success: Target no more than three to five tasks you must do extremely well. Then make sure everyone on your team knows what they are

Dr. Jon LaPook reports on the experimental treatment Platelet Rich Plasma therapy, a procedure that appears to help heal a muscle, tendon or joint injury without surgery

Shoppers in the market for an aircraft can find just about everything that flies at Wittman Field in Oshkosh, Wis., during the last week in July.

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We all know anger is bad… right?

Can our expectations for the future change how we remember the past? According to a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology , they can--we remember unpleasant experiences more negatively if we expect to endure them again. Researchers at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University conducted seven experiments to determine how people’s expectations shape their memories