NEW! Purpose and the Universe by Sean M. Carroll, Ph.D at the 2013 AHA Conference in San Diego (by Carl Wong)
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In the study, 96 postmenopausal women recruited from the community were randomly allocated to receive a testosterone gel or a visually identical placebo gel to be applied to the skin. Participants underwent a comprehensive series of cognitive tests at the beginning of the study and 26 weeks later.
All women performed in the normal range for their age at the beginning of the trial. There was a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in verbal learning and memory amongst the women using the testosterone gel after 26 weeks.
Professor Davis said the results indicated that testosterone played an important role in women’s health.
“Much of the research on testosterone in women to date has focused on sexual function. But testosterone has widespread effects in women, including, it appears, significant favourable effects on verbal learning and memory,” Professor Davis said.
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A little break from what I’m meant to be doing
In The Last Child in the Woods, journalist Richard Louv talks about “nature deficit disorder,” something we urbanites have picked up over the last hundred years or so. He say that city-dwellers have become so disconnected from nature that they cannot process the harsh realities of the natural world, like the sight of an injured animal.
Artificial Selection - Baba Brinkman - Rap Guide to Evolution Music Videos (by Baba Brinkman)
