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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Individuals who were not born with an olfactory sense, or who lost the ability to smell due to a disease, could someday once again take in the sweet smells all around them courtesy of new research from the University of Michigan Medical School. Dr. Jeffery Martens, an associate professor of pharmacology, and colleagues were, for the first time, able to cure the condition, known as congenital anosmia, and restore the sense of smell...

NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Weight Watchers today announced the launch of its 5(th) Annual Lose For Good campaign, which gives members and Weight Watchers Online subscribers the chance to help fight global hunger and chronic malnutrition, simply by losing weight. Since the inaugural campaign in 2008, Weight Watchers has donated $4 million to the campaign's charitable partners to help fight hunger--and is committed to grow that total to $5 million this year. Between...

SAINT PAUL, Minn., Aug. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- September is Hunger Action Month, a month in which individuals across the country are urged to take action against hunger in their communities. At the request of Second Harvest Heartland, the Upper Midwest's largest hunger relief organization, the City of Minneapolis will take action against hunger by formally declaring September as Hunger Action Month, and the Minnesota Department of Transportation will light the 35W bridge over the...

Have you ever wondered why you can remember things from long ago as if they happened yesterday, yet sometimes can't recall what you ate for dinner last night? According to a new study led by psychologists at the University of Toronto, it's because how much something means to you actually influences how you see it as well as how vividly you can recall it later. "We've discovered that we see things that are emotionally arousing with greater clarity than those that are more mundane," says...

SMS Audio and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson Continue Program to Help Americans Facing Hunger CHICAGO, Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization, welcomes music mogul and entrepreneur, 50 Cent, to its Entertainment Council as the newest celebrity supporter. Building on the existing partnership with his audio brand, SMS Audio, 50 Cent joins Entertainment Council celebrities from across the entertainment industry,...

Vaginal birth triggers the expression of a protein in the brains of newborns that improves brain development and function in adulthood, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers, who also found that this protein expression is impaired in the brains of offspring delivered by caesarean section (C-sections). These findings are published in the August issue of PLoS ONE by a team of researchers led by Tamas Horvath, the Jean and David W. Wallace Professor of Biomedical...

Stressed volunteers use different strategies and brain regions Stressed and non-stressed persons use different brain regions and different strategies when learning. This has been reported by the cognitive psychologists PD Dr. Lars Schwabe and Professor Oliver Wolf from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in the Journal of Neuroscience. Non-stressed individuals applied a deliberate learning strategy, while stressed subjects relied more on their gut feeling. "These results demonstrate for the first...

Olfaction in land crabs is still in an early transitional stage between life in water and on land Max Planck scientists have found out that the olfactory system in hermit crabs is still underdeveloped in comparison to that of vinegar flies. While flies have a very sensitive sense of smell and are able to identify various odor molecules in the air, crabs recognize only a few odors, such as the smell of organic acids, amines, aldehydes, or seawater. Humidity significantly enhanced electrical...

John Neumann for redOrbit.com A recent study from UCLA and published in Biology Letters journal, may have unlocked one of the reasons you want to rock and roll all night, and party every day. When in distress, animals force a large amount of air through their voice box very quickly, producing a discordant effect designed to grab the attention and provoke an emotional response in other animals, reports The Telegraph’s Nick Collins. In other words, screaming and yelling gets your...

Mildly stressful situations can affect our perceptions in the same way as life-threatening ones Financial loss can lead to irrational behavior. Now, research by Weizmann Institute scientists reveals that the effects of loss go even deeper: Loss can compromise our early perception and interfere with our grasp of the true situation. The findings, which recently appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, may also have implications for our understanding of the neurological mechanisms underlying...