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Free Shipping. Black Diamond Men's Virago Glove FEATURES of the Black Diamond Men's Virago Glove Fixed lining with 100% waterproof and breathable Gore-Tex insert with XCR Product Technology Woven nylon, abrasion-resistant shell with 4-way stretch Fixed lining has 100 g Thermolite insulation on back of hand and 100 g fleece palm Goat leather palm, back of hand and fingertips Zippered pocket for heat packet
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Built to take the abuse of ski patrolling, guiding, and 100-day seasons, these midweight gloves can take some serious abuse and dish out heat like no other. Black Diamond's Virago features a GORE-TEX XCR lining for completely breathable waterproofing and PrimaLoft synthetic insulation for all day warmth. A goat leather palm adds durability and dexterity and for those extra cold days, a zippered heater pocket allows you to stack on some additional warmth.
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A cross between a classic mountain work glove and a burly freeride glove, the Black Diamond Virago Glove features a Gore-Tex membrane to seal out the elements and strategic insulation. Tough goat leather palm and fingers provide max durability for 100-plus days, while its stretchy shell keeps dexterity high so you can adjust your buckles or switch your backcountry skis into ski mode with ease.
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Winter work gloves are known for toughness and dexterity, but not necessarily warmth-enter the Black Diamond Virago. This mid-warmth workhorse easily handles everyday conditions on the mountain; when the mercury plunges, drop a heater pack into the Virago
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Black Diamond Virago Glove
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'Airplane' director, star to unveil Wisconsin tourism ad
Madison - The director and star of the 1980 comedy hit "Airplane!" are flying in to Wisconsin again.
David Zucker and Robert Hays will be in Madison on Monday to unveil a new TV spot promoting the state as a tourism destination. Their appearance coincides with a statewide conference on tourism. »Read Full Article(4)
Ready to be floored again: Colorful MECCA court returns for one night
With a giant M flanking each side of the midcourt line, a candy-apple-red bull's-eye at center court and "MILWAUKEE" at either end, Robert Indiana's 1977 basketball floor at the old Arena once defined Milwaukee.
It may define the city again, if Ben Koller, who owns the MECCA floor, one of the largest pop-art paintings on the planet, has his way. »Read Full Article(44)
Exclusive Video: Semi Precious Weapons performs before Ke$ha concert at the Rave
Stevy Pyne, left, and Justin Tranter of Semi Precious Weapons performed new single "Aviation High" for Tap Milwaukee Wednesday, before taking the stage at a sold out Ke$ha at the Eagles Ballroom. Journal Sentinel photo by Mark Felix. »Read Full Blog Post
Singles Scorecard: Hear new songs from the Avett Brothers, Jennifer Nettles and Polica
The Avett Brothers, pictured here performing at Summerfest in June, has a new single out from a forthcoming album, less than a year after releasing its last one. Journal Sentinel photo by Mark Felix. »Read Full Blog Post
The Wanted, Jepsen get intimate with small but adoring crowd
Turns out the Wanted isn't so widely wanted in Milwaukee after all.
Despite the hype surrounding the British boy band, the main floor had unfilled seats and the balcony was largely empty Tuesday for the group's show at the 2,500-capacity Riverside Theater — even with "Call Me Maybe" hitmaker Carly Rae Jepsen as co-headliner. »Read Full Article(1)
Music, dance, Lucha Libre and more at Mexican Fiesta
Mexican culture past and present intersect this weekend at Maier Festival Park for Mexican Fiesta, the celebration of Mexico and Latin America that started as a street party on the south side in 1973.
Friday through Sunday, mariachi, ranchera, cumbia, bachata and other music will rule the festival stages, with performances by Revolucion de Amor, a Mana tribute band; Toby Love; and La Sonora Santanera U.S.A. »Read Full Article(1)
First impressions of 'Current Tendencies'
Several of the Art City contributors got a preview of the "Current Tendencies III" exhibit at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Friday. It was a chance for us glimpse this important survey of some of the more intriguing artists working in our region today and to begin to consider the work in the show.
For the first time, we've asked the contributors to file short audio pieces with a few early thoughts on perhaps a single artist or work in the exhibit. »Read Full Blog Post
On Tap Today: Farmers market, free music and the Brewers
It's Wednesday, which means its farmers market day in Westown's Zeidler Union Square. Booths filled with bright flowers, snap peas and organic greens open at 10 a.m., and the Tinker Boys will be playing there today.

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If you plan to watch the team's first playoff game in 26 years at 2 this afternoon, you might need some snacks.
Eateries including The Social, 170 S. 1st St., and St. Paul Fish Co., in the Milwaukee Public Market at St. Paul Ave. and N. Broadway, are offering special deals.
At The Social, the restaurant will sell $5 stadium plates -- with fare such as ribs, sausages and potato salad -- along with $5 pitchers of Schlitz, $2 Pabst Blue Ribbons and $3 Lakefront Brewery taps while showing the game on the big screen. Thursday, the Social starts its "Weekend Warm-up Thursdays" with a $5 food menu available until 1 a.m.and $3 "you call it" drinks.
All tap beers and oysters will be half off at the St. Paul Fish Co. during the game today, Oct.1, and during the game Thursday, Oct. 2, at 5 p.m.
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A lightning strike knocked out the power at a medical clinic in Des Moines.
Methodist Plaza Clinics at 1221 Pleasant Street were without power until about 7:45 a.m.
Officials said lightning struck a transformer, knocking out power at the clinics.
No hospitals were affected.
Officials said the power was restored before 8:00 a.m.
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Alpha-BetsMarch 20, 2014 - 12:06pm
by Barbara Connors
Everybody has to start somewhere. For poker players, just as for readers, the journey begins with ABC. Literally, of course in the case of readers, while aspiring poker players cut their teeth on a style of play known as ABC poker.
As the name implies, ABC poker is about building-block fundamentals. It's poker played strictly by the book. But ABC poker can be best described by what it is not—it is not creative, it is not deceptive, it doesn't make adjustments for your opponents' playing styles, and it's often not the most profitable way to play a given hand. And if all that's not unappealing enough, because ABC poker dictates that you play by the book—following somebody else' script— there's little sense of personal satisfaction or accomplishment, even when you win.
Mike Caro: Today's word is... MISCONCEPTIONSMarch 17, 2014 - 11:41am
So many misconceptions muddle poker that I sometimes make lists. Today, I'd like to share three favorites from my collection, hoping that your game will improve, once you understand the truth.
Where should we start? How about bluffs. Whenever I warn about the badness of bluffing, some players get confused and think I'm telling them never to bluff. I'm not. There are clearly profitable times to fire a bluff into the pot. And there are specific opponents who make the best targets.
Fine. But I'm warning you that most players lose money for their lifetimes by bluffing. In that sense, yes, it would be better for them if they never bluffed. Here's the strange part. Among all those millions of players who lose money bluffing, most probably think they earn money. I'll tell you why that is in a minute.
Readers Respond to "How do you Rule?", PART 1March 7, 2014 - 11:06am
by George "The Engineer" Epstein
My column entitled, "How Do You Rule?" in the Feb. 10 issue of PPN, had so many great responses that we awarded seven valuable prizes (copies of the Hold'em Algorithm) instead of one as planned! All raised salient issues; many offered thoughtful suggestions. Some described personal experiences. I'll summarize their comments and quote several in this and the next column (Part II). After studying the responses and consulting with others, I have drawn conclusions that I will share with you in Part III. (You may be surprised!)
Mike Caro: Today's word is... TIGHTMarch 3, 2014 - 11:56am
When I was a kid, I was able to demolish local poker games in Denver just by entering pots with only my very best starting hands. We call that playing "tight." It amazed me that opponents had so little patience. They were willing to sacrifice their chips to me night after night without me having to know much about poker to win. I just took advantage of their tendency to bet money on bad hands.
Of course, later I helped pioneer aggressive poker strategies that proved that the sit-and-wait era of winning was finally over. But it's important to realize that playing tight often still wins by itself. It doesn't win as much as my power poker tactics (a term I coined in 1978 for Doyle Brunson to use with his poker bible Super/System — A Course in Power Poker). But it wins marginally.
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Change Up Your StyleFebruary 24, 2014 - 11:05am
by David "The Maven" Chicotsky
Candy makers know that if they can get a person to like a certain type of candy as a kid, they're much more likely to eat that brand of candy for the rest of their lives. Something similar occurs in poker - where players start out playing a certain style of poker and continue to play that style throughout their poker career. Just because something feels comfortable, doesn't make it correct. In fact, in tournament poker, much of what initially seems correct is dead wrong.
The average poker player starts out overly tight, playing mostly semi-premium and premium hands. The sad truth is most of these players remain tight for years and years. It's very important to be a chameleon at the table - adjusting to the table conditions (stack sizes, play of our opponents, time of the tournament, among other factors) on a constant basis. Other players start out loose (affectionately known as spewtards) and also follow along that path for far too long.
Playing poker is like driving a car; we go fast on the highway and slow in school zones. Just because we go fast on the highway, doesn't mean we are a "fast" driver - it's just part of the skill-set we need to efficiently get around town. Try not to mentally box yourself into a certain category of player. Let the game come to you and make the necessary adjustments along the way, since many other players won't.
Hunch-DrunkFebruary 20, 2014 - 11:57am
by Barbara Connors
"I had a feeling." This seemingly innocuous phrase, usually spoken in defense of a loose call after the hand is over, ranks right up there with, "I had to make sure" and "I'll just play a little while longer until I get back even again" as among the most costly utterances in poker. And yet what red-blooded poker player hasn't been tempted to play a hunch now and then? Sticking to clinical, strategically-sound, mathematically correct play all the time may be the most surefire way to make money at this game, but we're not robots. Playing hunches appeals to the frustrated artist in all of us. It's flattering to believe that maybe we're a little bit psychic and it's just plain more fun.
But is it always a bad thing to play a hunch? Well, it depends. Anytime you feel yourself wanting to make some unorthodox play that you would never make otherwise, based purely on a gut feeling, the important question to ask yourself is—where did that gut feeling come from?
Mike Caro: Today's word is... NATUREFebruary 17, 2014 - 11:30am
Many poker players lose for a single, simple reason. They don't grasp the nature of the majority of their opponents. Because of this common and fundamental misunderstanding of opponents' natural state at the poker table, players pour profit down the poker drain trying to accomplish things that are impossible. What does that mean? Listen, and I'll tell you.
Why they play
In order to take advantage of your opponents' greatest weaknesses, you first need to understand why they came to play poker. No, really. Let's examine that. Imagine that you're a regular guy or gal with a regular everyday job. Maybe it's standing all day long behind a used tomato booth at a secret black market for fruits and vegetables. Maybe it's painting over minor scratches on the bottom of automobile mufflers. Just some common job. Okay. Now imagine that your job is only thrilling for the first seven hours each day and that, by the final hour, you're bored and eager to get home. Fine. So, that's where you are right now. Home.
Then a monumental thought bombs your brain: "Maybe I'll drive to the casino and play poker." Immediately, your pulse quickens. An adventure awaits.
So, now I want you to stop imagining and jump back out of the head of your pretend opponent. You're you again, in your own head. And that's the "you" to whom I'm posing this important question. Here it comes. Do you think, while driving to the casino, your opponent is thinking, "I hope I can just sit at the table and not have to play any hands," or "I hope I get to play a lot of hands"?
How Do You Rule on this Poker Situation?February 10, 2014 - 11:14am
by George "The Engineer" Epstein
Hear Ye... Hear Ye... The Players' Poker Court of Law is now in session.
You are the Judge. I am the key witness. I have been sworn in. During a low-limit game at a local casino, James raised before the flop in middle position, and was called by several opponents. The flop was rather uninteresting:
There was no card higher than a nine, no pairs, no connectors, and it contained three different suits. A player in early position bet out. There was one limper before James raised again. One player behind him—Bill—and the two limpers called James' raise. The turn was not very exciting either. There were no pairs on the board, but there were possible long-shot draws to a straight or flush.
Exit StrategyFebruary 7, 2014 - 11:23am
By Barbara Connors
Few things can match the anticipation of sitting down in a new poker game. Every game we enter offers the chance to challenge ourselves, to test out new strategies or fine-tune old ones, and most of all, the possibility of a big win. So much thought and care goes into the start of each new poker session—where to play, when to play, what stakes, how much to buy in for— and yet a decision that is at least as important, when to leave the game, often seems to get made on a whim. Choosing when to exit a cash game can be tricky. Everyone, it seems, has a different opinion, but conventional poker wisdom holds that you should keep on playing as long as the game is good and you're able to keep playing well. The first criterion, good playing conditions, is easy enough to identify. It's that second requirement, confidence that you are still playing well, that gets so many players into trouble.
Power That Comes From FoldingFebruary 6, 2014 - 11:38am
by Ashley Adams
We all know that correctly folding a losing hand can save you money. The better you are at reading your opponents, and thus the better you are at assessing when you are beaten or significantly behind, the greater will be your savings from folding correctly. I'd like to look at another advantage that accrues from folding. It is an advantage that stems from how folding affects your image in the minds of your opponents.
In the old fashioned home game, where buddies play poker regularly with each other, images are fashioned over time. Reputations for betting styles, long developed, are not soon to change no matter what the actual betting may be in one series of hands or even over the course of a few regular poker nights. But in public poker rooms and on line the image that your opponents will have of you is created quickly. In a casino, your image depends predominantly on what you have done recently at the poker table. Exposed as players are to so many opponents, few will actually keep a book on you. Unlike online poker, where note taking is easy (and with the help of some software automatic), public poker room opponents will decide what kind of a player you are, and how to play against you, based on how you've played at their table over the session you're in.


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On Tap for Today: Gallery hopping, television and heavy metal
So the Super Bowl is over. I hope Coach Harbaugh won.
How do you follow-up a day of football, wings and beverages? Well, now that your football itch has been scratched, how about taking in some art? »Read Full Blog Post
Jack White; O.A.R.; Umphrey's McGee; Chrissie Hynde; Walter Trout; Osborne Bros.
O.A.R. »Read Full Article
New Pornographers returning to Milwaukee's Pabst Theater
The New Pornographers — the smart indie-pop supergroup with a lineup that includes such singer-songwriters as A.C. Newman, Neko Case and Dan Bejar, among others — returns to Milwaukee for an 8 p.m. show Nov. 13 at the Pabst Theater.
The Pornographers' new album, "Brill Bruisers," is due Aug. 26 on Matador Records. »Read Full Article
Pleasant Kafe, serving coffee, wine and beer, coming to N. Jackson St.
A coffee, wine and craft beer bar called Pleasant Kafe is in the works at E. Pleasant and N. Jackson streets, on the lower east side.
The cafe will sell items like scones, muffins and yogurt parfaits in the morning and have meat and cheese boards later in the day, said Lorna Stone. She owns the cafe at 1600 N. Jackson St. with her son, Geoffrey, and Eric Seegers. The men's Gato City property management company also owns neighboring homes on the lot. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
On Tap Today: Elvis Costello, Eddie Izzard and Spanish Gold
Elvis Costello performs a solo show at the Riverside Theater Tuesday, one of only 10 shows on his first solo headlining tour since 1999. Photo by Chad Batka. »Read Full Blog Post


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Restaurants by Category: Places to Try
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Tower Bridge Bistro
Capitol Garage –plus brunch category
Evan's Kitchen Tues-Sun –plus brunch category
(*Evan's open till 3 p.m. on Sun.)
The Plum Vegan Cafe open daily –brunch only on Sun.
The Porch
Juno's Mon-Sat
Hot Italian
58 Degrees & Holding Company
Aioli Bodega Espanol
Andy Nguyen's
Dad's Kitchen Tues-Sun
Bombay Bar & Grill
Dad's Sandwich Shop Mon-Sat till 3 p.m.
24K Cafe –plus brunch category
Tues-Sun (open for brunch only Sat-Sun)
Greater Sacramento Area:
Green Boheme Sun-Thurs
El Papagayo Wed-Sun
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Chapter 11. Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
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Emily Underwood To human observers, bumblebees sipping nectar from flowers appear cheerful. It turns out that the insects may actually enjoy their work. A new study suggests that bees experience a "happy" buzz after receiving a sugary snack, although it's probably not the same joy that humans experience chomping on a candy bar. Scientists can't ask bees or other animals how they feel. Instead, researchers must look for signs of positive or negative emotions in an animal's decision making or behavior, says Clint Perry, a neuroethologist at Queen Mary University of London. In one such study, for example, scientists shook bees vigorously in a machine for 60 seconds — hard enough to annoy, but not hard enough to cause injury — and found that stressed bees made more pessimistic decisions while foraging for food. The new study, published in the Sept. 30 Science, is the first to look for signs of positive bias in bee decision making, Perry says. His team trained 35 bees to navigate a small arena connected to a plastic tunnel. When the tunnel was marked with a blue flower, the bees learned that a tasty vial of sugar water awaited them at its end. When a green flower was present, there was no reward. Once the bees learned the difference, the scientists threw the bees a curveball: Rather than being blue or green, the flower had a confusing blue-green hue. Faced with the ambiguous blossom, the bees appeared to dither, meandering around for roughly 100 seconds before deciding whether to enter the tunnel. Some didn't enter at all. But when the scientists gave half the bees a treat — a drop of concentrated sugar water — that group spent just 50 seconds circling the entrance before deciding to check it out. Overall, the two groups flew roughly the same distances at the same speeds, suggesting that the group that had gotten a treat first had not simply experienced a boost in energy from the sugar, but were in a more positive, optimistic state, Perry says. |© Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2016.
Keyword: Emotions; Evolution
Link ID: 22712 - Posted: 09.30.2016
Rebecca Hersher A new study of violent behavior in more than 1,000 mammal species found the meerkat is the mammal most likely to be murdered by one of its own kind. The study, led by José María Gómez of the University of Grenada in Spain and published Wednesday in the journal Nature, analyzed more than 4 million deaths among 1,024 mammal species and compared them with findings in 600 studies of violence among humans from ancient times until today. The findings tell us two things: Some amount of violence between humans is attributable to our place on the evolutionary tree. Meerkats are surprisingly murderous. To be clear, the study's authors did not set out to prove (or disprove) a theory of meerkat violence; they were investigating what mammalian data might tell us about humans. But Ed Yong at The Atlantic organized the study's exhaustive list of mammals to make this helpful chart ranking animals by their murderousness. Some of the animals with reputations for docility are actually more dangerous to each other than creatures known for their aggression. Chinchillas kill each other more often than brown bears turn on their own kind. New Zealand sea lions are more murderous than actual lions. And, as you can see, about 20 percent of meerkat deaths are murders. Their violence has been documented; a 2006 study described in National Geographic documented meerkat mothers killing the offspring of other females to maintain dominance. © 2016 npr
Keyword: Aggression
Link ID: 22707 - Posted: 09.29.2016
By Karl Gruber Five lionesses in Botswana have grown a mane and are showing male-like behaviours. One is even roaring and mounting other females. Male lions are distinguished by their mane, which they use to attract females, and they roar to protect their territory or call upon members of their pride. Females lack a mane and are not as vocal. . New Scientist Live: Book tickets to our festival of ideas and discovery – 22 to 25 September in London But sometimes lionesses grow a mane and even behave a bit like males. However, until now, reports of such maned lionesses have been extremely rare and largely anecdotal. We knew they existed, but little about how they behave. Now, Geoffrey D. Gilfillan at the University of Sussex in Falmer, UK, and colleagues have reported five lionesses sporting a mane at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana's Okavango delta. Gilfillan started studying these lionesses back in March 2014, and for the next two years he focused on recording the behaviour of one of them, called SaF05. She had an underdeveloped mane and was larger than most females. "While SaF05 is mostly female in her behaviour – staying with the pride, mating males – she also has some male behaviours, such as increased scent-marking and roaring, as well as mounting other females," says Gilfillan. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Sexual Behavior; Aggression
Link ID: 22687 - Posted: 09.23.2016
Nicola Davis Tyrannosaur, Breaking the Waves and Schindler's List might make you reach for the tissues, but psychologists say they have found a reason why traumatic films are so appealing. Researchers at Oxford University say that watching traumatic films boosts feelings of group bonding, as well as increasing pain tolerance by upping levels of feel-good, pain-killing chemicals produced in the brain. "The argument here is that actually, maybe the emotional wringing you get from tragedy triggers the endorphin system," said Robin Dunbar, a co-author of the study and professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford. Previous research has found that laughing together, dancing together and working in a team can increase social bonding and heighten pain tolerance through an endorphin boost. "All of those things, including singing and dancing and jogging and laughter, all produce an endorphin kick for the same reason - they are putting the musculature of the body under stress," said Dunbar. Being harrowed, he adds, could have a similar effect. "It has turned out that the same areas in the brain that deal with physical pain also handle psychological pain," said Dunbar. Writing in the journal Royal Society Open Science, Dunbar and colleagues describe how they set out to unpick whether our love of storytelling, a device used to share knowledge and cultivate a sense of identity within a group, is underpinned by an endorphin-related bonding mechanism. © 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Emotions; Pain & Touch
Link ID: 22677 - Posted: 09.21.2016
Richard J. McNally The welcoming letter to the class of 2020 in which Jay Ellison, a dean at the University of Chicago, told incoming students not to expect trigger warnings on campus struck a nerve in a highly polarized debate that is embroiling academia. Trigger warnings are countertherapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains P.T.S.D. Trigger warnings, critics claim, imperil academic freedom and further infantilize a cohort of young people accustomed to coddling by their helicopter parents. Proponents of trigger warnings point out that many students have suffered trauma, exemplified by alarming rates of sexual assault on campus. Accordingly, they urge professors to warn students about potentially upsetting course materials and to exempt distressed students from classes covering topics likely to trigger post-traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D., symptoms, such as flashbacks, nightmares and intrusive thoughts about one's personal trauma. Proponents of trigger warnings are deeply concerned about the emotional well-being of students, especially those with trauma histories. Yet lost in the debate are two key points: Trauma is common, but P.T.S.D. is rare. Epidemiological studies show that many people are exposed to trauma in their lives, and most have had transient stress symptoms. But only a minority fails to recover, thereby developing P.T.S.D. Students with P.T.S.D. are those most likely to have adverse emotional reactions to curricular material, not those with trauma histories whose acute stress responses have dissipated. However, trigger warnings are countertherapeutic because they encourage avoidance of reminders of trauma, and avoidance maintains P.T.S.D. Severe emotional reactions triggered by course material are a signal that students need to prioritize their mental health and obtain evidence-based, cognitive-behavioral therapies that will help them overcome P.T.S.D. These therapies involve gradual, systematic exposure to traumatic memories until their capacity to trigger distress diminishes. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Stress; Learning & Memory
Link ID: 22658 - Posted: 09.15.2016
By Jessica Hamzelou After experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder after being raped, Karestan Koenen made it her career to study the condition. Now at Harvard University, Koenen is leading the largest ever genetic study of PTSD, by sifting through the genomes of tens of thousands of people (see Why women are more at risk of PTSD – and how to prevent it"). She tells New Scientist how her experiences shaped her career What was your idea of PTSD before you experienced it yourself? I would have associated it with men who served in the military – the stereotype of a Vietnam veteran who has experienced really horrible combat, and comes back and has nightmares about it. Do you think that is how PTSD is perceived by the public generally? Yes. People know that PTSD is related to trauma, and that people can have flashbacks and nightmares. But they tend to think it is associated with combat. A lot of popular images of PTSD come from war movies, and people tend to associate being a soldier with being a man. They are less aware that most PTSD is related to things that happen to civilians – things like rape, sexual assault and violence, which can affect women more than men. Is this misperception of PTSD problematic? It's a problem in the sense that women or men who have PTSD from non-combat experiences might not recognise what they have as PTSD, and because of that, may not end up getting help. And if you saw it in a loved one, you may not understand what was going on with them. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Stress; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 22657 - Posted: 09.15.2016
By NATALIE ANGIER The female bonobo apes of the Wamba forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo had just finished breakfast and were preparing for a brief nap in the treetops, bending and crisscrossing leafy branches into comfortable day beds. But one of the females was in estrus, her rump exceptionally pink and swollen, and four males in the group were too excited to sleep. They took turns wildly swinging and jumping around the fertile female and her bunkmates, shaking the branches, appearing to display their erections and perforating the air with high-pitched screams and hoots. Suddenly, three older, high-ranking female bonobos bolted up from below, a furious blur of black fur and swinging limbs and, together with the female in estrus, flew straight for the offending males. The males scattered. The females pursued them. Tree boughs bounced and cracked. Screams on all sides grew deafening. Three of the males escaped, but the females cornered and grabbed the fourth one — the resident alpha male. He was healthy, muscular and about 18 pounds heavier than any of his captors. But no matter. The females bit into him as he howled and struggled to pull free. Finally, "he dropped from the tree and ran away, and he didn't appear again for about three weeks," said Nahoko Tokuyama, of the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan, who witnessed the encounter. When the male returned, he kept to himself. Dr. Tokuyama noticed that the tip of one of his toes was gone. "Being hated by females," she said in an email interview, "is a big matter for male bonobos." The toe-trimming incident was extreme but not unique. Describing results from their long-term field work in the September issue of Animal Behaviour, Dr. Tokuyama and her colleague Takeshi Furuichi reported that the female bonobos of Wamba often banded together to fend off male aggression, and in patterns that defied the standard primate rule book. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Aggression; Sexual Behavior
Link ID: 22641 - Posted: 09.10.2016
By Daniel Engber In the spring of 2013, a 63-year-old social psychologist in Wurzburg, Germany, made a bold suggestion in a private email chain. For months, several dozen of his colleagues had been squabbling over how to double-check the scientific literature on "social priming," the idea that even very subtle cues—the height of a chair, the temperature of a cup of coffee, the color of a printed word—can influence someone's behavior or judgment. Now the skeptics in the group wanted volunteers: Who among the priming experts and believers would help them with a large-scale replication effort, in which a major finding would be tested in many different labs at once? Who—if anyone—would agree to put his research to this daunting test? The experts were reluctant to step forward. In recent months their field had fallen into scandal and uncertainty: An influential scholar had been outed as a fraud; certain bedrock studies—even so-called "instant classics"—had seemed to shrivel under scrutiny. But the rigidity of the replication process felt a bit like bullying. After all, their work on social priming was delicate by definition: It relied on lab manipulations that had been precisely calibrated to elicit tiny changes in behavior. Even slight adjustments to their setups, or small mistakes made by those with less experience, could set the data all askew. So let's say another lab—or several other labs—tried and failed to copy their experiments. What would that really prove? Would it lead anyone to change their minds about the science?
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 22609 - Posted: 08.29.2016
James Hamblin Like The Atlantic? Subscribe to the Daily, our free weekday email newsletter. Elite tennis players have an uncanny ability to clear their heads after making errors. They constantly move on and start fresh for the next point. They can't afford to dwell on mistakes. Peter Strick is not a professional tennis player. He's a distinguished professor and chair of the department of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh Brain Institute. He's the sort of person to dwell on mistakes, however small. "My kids would tell me, dad, you ought to take up pilates. Do some yoga," he said. "But I'd say, as far as I'm concerned, there's no scientific evidence that this is going to help me." Still, the meticulous skeptic espoused more of a tennis approach to dealing with stressful situations: Just teach yourself to move on. Of course there is evidence that ties practicing yoga to good health, but not the sort that convinced Strick. Studies show correlations between the two, but he needed a physiological mechanism to explain the relationship. Vague conjecture that yoga "decreases stress" wasn't sufficient. How? Simply by distracting the mind? The stress response in humans is facilitated by the adrenal glands, which sit on top of our kidneys and spit adrenaline into our blood whenever we're in need of fight or flight. That stress response is crucial in dire circumstances. But little of modern life truly requires it (especially among academic scientists). Most of the time, our stress responses are operating as a sort of background hum, keeping us on edge. Turn that off, and we relax. © 2016 by The Atlantic Monthly Group
Keyword: Stress
Link ID: 22599 - Posted: 08.25.2016
Are you a giver or a taker? Brain scans have identified a region of the cerebral cortex responsible for generosity – and some of us are kinder than others. The area was identified using a computer game that linked different symbols to cash prizes that either went to the player, or one of the study's other participants. The volunteers readily learned to score prizes that helped other people, but they tended to learn how to benefit themselves more quickly. Read more: The kindness paradox: Why be generous? MRI scanning revealed that one particular brain area – the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex – seemed to be active when participants chose to be generous, prioritising benefits for someone else over getting rewards for themselves. But Patricia Lockwood, at the University of Oxford, and her team found that this brain area was not equally active in every volunteer. People who rated themselves as having higher levels of empathy learned to benefit others faster, and these people had more activity in this particular brain area, says Lockwood. This finding may lead to new ways to identify and understand anti-social and psychopathic behavior. Journal reference: PNAS, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1603198113 © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Brain imaging; Emotions
Link ID: 22560 - Posted: 08.16.2016
In a global study of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease that causes muscle weakness and fatigue, researchers found that surgical removal of an organ called the thymus reduced patients' weakness, and their need for immunosuppressive drugs. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, was partially funded by the National Institutes of Health. "Our results support the idea that thymectomy is a valid treatment option for a major form of myasthenia gravis," said Gil Wolfe, M.D., Professor and Irvin and Rosemary Smith Chair of Neurology, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, New York, and a leader of the study. The Thymectomy Trial in Non-Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis Patients Receiving Prednisone (MGTX) was a randomized, controlled study conducted on 126 patients aged 18-65 between 2006 and 2012. The researchers compared the combination of surgery and immunosuppression with the drug prednisone with prednisone treatment alone. They performed extended transternal thymectomies on 57 patients. This major surgical procedure aims to remove most of the thymus, which requires opening of a patient's chest. On average the researchers found that the combination of surgery and prednisone treatment reduced overall muscle weakness more than prednisone treatment alone. After 36 months of prednisone treatment, both groups of patients had better QMG scores, a measure of muscle strength. Scores for the patients who had thymectomies and prednisone were 2.84 points better than patients who were on prednisone alone.
Keyword: Movement Disorders; Muscles
Link ID: 22547 - Posted: 08.12.2016
By Effy Redman "There is no one who has not smiled at least once," writes Marianne LaFrance, a Yale University psychology professor, in her 2011 book "Lip Service: Smiles in Life, Death, Trust, Lies, Work, Memory, Sex and Politics." Her book explores how smiling unifies us. Like breath, the smile is universal. We smile to connect, to forgive, to love. A smile is beauty, human. But I have never smiled. Not once. I was born with Moebius syndrome — a rare form of facial paralysis that results from damage in the womb to the sixth and seventh cranial nerves, which control the muscles of the face. I was born in Britain, on the same day in 1982 the country's first test-tube twins were born. But while science has created medical miracles like test-tube babies, there's little that doctors can do for someone with Moebius syndrome. Decades later, I still cannot smile. Or frown. Or do any of the infinite subtle and not-so-subtle things with my face that I see others in the world around me doing every day. Doctors describe people with Moebius as having a "mask-like expression." And that is what strangers must see. A frozen face, eyes unblinking. My mouth always open, motionless, the left corner of my lips slightly lower than the right. Walking down the street, I can feel the touch of casual observers' eyes. A child's very first "social smile" usually occurs six to eight weeks after birth, eagerly awaited by new parents. Because, as an infant, my face remained so expressionless, when I began laughing it took my mother a while to realize that the sound I was making was laughter. At what point, I wonder, did I begin to compensate for the absence of my smile. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Emotions
Link ID: 22542 - Posted: 08.11.2016
By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG Need a laugh? Get online and take a look at videos of baby Japanese macaques smiling as they sleep. Their faces twitch, usually just on one side and for less than a second. A lip curls, a nose wrinkles — as if they were hairy, wry elves. Newborn Japanese macaques -- like humans and chimpanzees -- were found to make facial expressions called "spontaneous smiles." Watch the full video. Credit Kyoto University Primate Research Institute Maybe you don't laugh, maybe you just smile back — O.K., fine. But you may owe that smile to the human version of this infant's facial spasm. Some scientists suspect spontaneous smiles in these monkeys echo the development of our own expressions. Scientists from the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University in Japan have observed these spontaneous smiles in Japanese macaques for the first time, according to a new study published in the journal Primates. Spontaneous smiles have previously been observed in infant humans and chimpanzees, but this is the first time they have been seen in another primate species. The scientists watched seven macaque monkeys for an average of 44 minutes, during which the monkeys happened to fall asleep. During REM sleep, each of the monkeys spontaneously smiled at least once, for a little less than a second on average. All told, the seven monkeys smiled 58 times, mostly on the left side of their faces. Human and macaque infants alike primarily smile on one side of their faces. But after two months, human babies begin to smile bilaterally. Around the same time, they also begin to offer up "social smiles," indicating to others a feeling of happiness. According to the study, scientists think that the earliest spontaneous smiles are key to the development of the zygomaticus major muscle, which is responsible for moving your lips up or to the side, allowing you to smile, among other things. Spontaneous smiles in these monkeys echo the development of our own expressions. Watch the full video.
Keyword: Emotions; Evolution
Link ID: 22529 - Posted: 08.09.2016
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz Feeling worried? These days, much of America is. Over the past eight years, Google search rates for anxiety have more than doubled. They are higher this year than they have been in any year since Google searches were first tracked in 2004. So far, 2016 has been tops for searches for driving anxiety, travel anxiety, separation anxiety, anxiety at work, anxiety at school and anxiety at home. Americans have also become increasingly terrified of the morning. Searches for "anxiety in the morning" have risen threefold over the past decade. But this is nothing compared with the fear of night. Searches for "anxiety at night" have risen ninefold. For years, I have confidently pontificated on topics that I think are important but that I have little experience of — child abuse, racism, sexism, sex. Now I am ready to tackle a topic I actually know something about. Over the past few weeks, I've taken a break from worrying about my own anxiety to studying our country's. While I am not sure I totally nailed down why anxiety seems to have risen so much during the Obama era, I did learn a lot. The places where anxiety is highest are not where I would have expected. When I was growing up, if you had asked me which people were the most anxious, I would have said New York Jews. And a decade of interacting with our country's urban intelligentsia, Jewish and otherwise, has confirmed that pretty much all of us are a neurotic mess. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Stress
Link ID: 22528 - Posted: 08.08.2016
By PHYLLIS KORKKI Ever experienced a bout of anxiety at work? I just did. One day last week I had several assignments to finish in quick succession. I could feel thoughts pinging around in my brain as I tried and failed to decide what to focus on first. Once I was able to get the pandemonium under control, my brain felt like mush. So what did I do? I breathed deeply from the middle of my body. I imagined the top of my head, and pictured arrows coming out the sides of my shoulders. I stood up for a while and then walked around the newsroom. And went back to work. These simple solutions to anxiety are not so easy to practice in an era of multitasking, multiple screens and mindless distractions. I learned them only after signing a contract to write a book — and becoming so anxious about it that I developed back and stomach pains. Unable to score a prescription for Klonopin (it's addictive, my doctor said), I was reduced to seeking out natural methods to relieve my anxiety. The methods I learned helped me write the book. But they also made me realize that workers of all stripes could use them to reduce stress, and to think more clearly and creatively. My first stop was Belisa Vranich, a clinical psychologist who teaches — or rather reteaches — people how to breathe. Dimly I sensed that the way I was inhaling and exhaling was out of whack, and she confirmed it by giving me some tests. First off, like most people, I was a "vertical" breather, meaning my shoulders moved upward when I inhaled. Second, I was breathing from my upper chest, where the lungs don't have much presence. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Stress
Link ID: 22527 - Posted: 08.08.2016
By JoAnna Klein I expected a bumpy ride on a whitewater trip, so when I fell off my raft and coughed up the water I'd inhaled, I wasn't afraid. But at the time I didn't know I was swimming with a deadly parasite. I'd been at a bachelorette party at the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, N.C., but after returning home I learned that I had shared the churning rapids with Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled amoeba found mostly in soil and warm freshwater lakes, rivers and hot springs. An Ohio teenager had contracted the amoeba infection after visiting the center around the same time I did, and some of the waters and sediment at and around the center had tested positive for the bug. News that my friends and I had all been at risk of exposure triggered a few days of worry. The illness is rare and, if infected, symptoms show up between one and 10 days after exposure. Chances were that we were fine (we were), but the experience prompted me to learn more about the parasite. Naegleria fowleri lives in fresh water, but not in salt water. If forced up the nose, it can enter the brain and feed on its tissue, resulting in an infection known as primary amebic meningoencephalitis. Death occurs in nearly all of those infected with the parasite, usually within five days after infection. The 18-year-old Ohio woman who died most likely contracted the parasite when she sucked water through her nose after falling from a raft during a church trip. Samples from a channel at the rafting center, collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, tested positive for the bug. The center's channels are man-made, and it gets its water from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities Department and two wells on its property. The center has announced that it disinfects all water with ultraviolet radiation and chlorine, and it added more after the water tests. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Miscellaneous
Link ID: 22514 - Posted: 08.04.2016
By Colby Itkowitz On any given day people face any number of minor annoyances such as being stuck in traffic or spilling coffee on their shirts or forgetting their keys. Then there's the persistent stressors that come from work, relationships and finances. And there's the uncontrollable anxieties of global terrorism, mass shootings and Zika-carrying mosquitoes. But why are some people able to deal with it all so calmly, while others freak out? A team of researchers at Yale University may have found the answer in the brain. The scientists studied the brains of 30 adult volunteers with no history of mental or physical health issues as they watched a slideshow of gruesome and terrifying images for six minutes. To compare brain activity, they then showed the participants benign images that would evoke little emotion, such as a photo of a chair. They located three areas of the brain that responded to the stress of seeing photos of people mutilated or at gunpoint or in other harrowing scenarios. But what the researchers found most interesting was how the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), which processes risk and emotional response, adapted while viewing the photos. In everyone, activity in that region decreased initially in response to the images, as though their guard was down, but then in some people, it became hyperactive, as if working overtime to control the emotional response, or in other words, to cope. "We have not had a way of breaking that apart to see what the brain is doing," said Rajita Sinha, director of the Yale Stress Center and lead author of the study. "How do we cope in the moment? Here, we said, in the moment under acute threat how does the brain cope and regain control?" © 1996-2016 The Washington Post
Keyword: Stress
Link ID: 22506 - Posted: 08.03.2016
By Tanya Lewis The tangled buildup of tau protein in brain cells is a hallmark of the cognitive decline linked with Alzheimer's disease. Antibodies have been shown to block tau's spread, but some scientists worry it could also fuel inflammation. Now, researchers from Genentech in San Francisco and colleagues have found that an antibody's ability to recruit immune cells—known as its effector function—is not necessary for stopping tau's spread, the team reported today (July 28) in Cell Reports. "Our results suggest that, given that effector function is not required for efficacy [in treating tau accumulation], going without it could offer a safer approach for immunotherapy," study coauthor Gai Ayalon of Genentech told The Scientist. Alzheimer's disease causes a characteristic constellation of pathologies: accumulation of amyloid-β plaques outside neurons, neurofibrillary tangles of tau inside brain cells, and chronic inflammation. Clinical research has mostly focused on targeting amyloid-β with antibody therapies, and several treatments based on this approach are currently in clinical trials. But recent efforts have zeroed in on tau as a new potential target. Antibodies are known to spur the brain's defense system, microglia, to absorb and degrade tau, but their recruitment of immune cells may also worsen inflammation. Ayalon and colleagues wondered whether effector function was necessary for stopping tau's spread. © 1986-2016 The Scientist
Keyword: Alzheimers; Neuroimmunology
Link ID: 22492 - Posted: 07.30.2016
Research supported by the National Institutes of Health has identified brain patterns in humans that appear to underlie "resilient coping," the healthy emotional and behavioral responses to stress that help some people handle stressful situations better than others. People encounter stressful situations and stimuli everywhere, every day, and studies have shown that long-term stress can contribute to a broad array of health problems. However, some people cope with stress better than others, and scientists have long wondered why. The new study, by a team of researchers at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, is now online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "This important finding points to specific brain adaptations that predict resilient responses to stress," said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of NIH and a supporter of the study. "The findings also indicate that we might be able to predict maladaptive stress responses that contribute to excessive drinking, anger, and other unhealthy reactions to stress." In a study of human volunteers, scientists led by Rajita Sinha, Ph.D., and Dongju Seo, Ph.D., used a brain scanning technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure localized changes in brain activation during stress. Study participants were given fMRI scans while exposed to highly threatening, violent and stressful images followed by neutral, non-stressful images for six minutes each. While conducting the scans, researchers also measured non-brain indicators of stress among study participants, such as heart rate, and levels of cortisol, a stress hormone, in blood. The brain scans revealed a sequence of three distinct patterns of response to stress, compared to non-stress exposure.
Keyword: Stress; Drug Abuse
Link ID: 22459 - Posted: 07.20.2016
By Diana Kwon Few things feel worse than not knowing when your next paycheck is coming. Economic insecurity has been shown to have a whole host of negative effects, including low self-esteem and impaired cognitive functioning. It turns out financial stress can also physically hurt, according to a paper published in February in Psychological Science. Eileen Chou, a public policy professor at the University of Virginia, and her collaborators began by analyzing a data set of 33,720 U.S. households and found that those with higher levels of unemployment were more likely to purchase over-the-counter painkillers. Then, using a series of experiments, the team discovered that simply thinking about the prospect of financial insecurity was enough to increase pain. For example, people reported feeling almost double the amount of physical pain in their body after recalling a financially unstable time in their life as compared with those who thought about a secure period. In another experiment, university students who were primed to feel anxious about future employment prospects removed their hand from an ice bucket more quickly (showing less pain tolerance) than those who were not. The researchers also found that economic insecurity reduced people's sense of control, which, in turn, increased feelings of pain. Chou and her colleagues suggest that because of this link between financial insecurity and decreased pain tolerance, the recent recession may have been a factor in fueling the prescription painkiller epidemic. Other experts are cautious about taking the findings that far. "I think the hypothesis [that financial stress causes pain] has a lot of merit, but it would be helpful to see additional rigorous evidence in a real-world environment," says Heather Schofield, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania who was not involved in the study. © 2016 Scientific American,
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Stress
Link ID: 22452 - Posted: 07.19.2016


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In a surprising upset, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary over opponent Hillary Clinton on Tuesday, according to reports.
Although the contest was close, Sanders' win comes as a shock as Clinton was expected to pull out a victory in the Rust Belt state, as she was ahead by double digits in polls taken prior to voting, the Associated Press reports.
According to Politico, Sanders, who spoke form Miami on Tuesday night, coined the victory an "enormously successful night," as he thanked volunteers.
"I want to thank the many thousands of volunteers that we had in the state of Michigan for knocking on doors and for making the phone calls that created this kind of enormously successful night for us," he said during a press conference.
Sanders continued: "What we have seen is in poll after poll, state after state, what we have done is created the kind of momentum that we need to win. So one again, this has been a fantastic night in Michigan. We're very grateful for all of the support that we have gotten from the state, and we look forward to going to Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and the other states that we will be competing in next week."
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While setting his sights on the upcoming primaries, the democratic candidate also reportedly said that Tuesday's results prove that his ideology "is strong in every part of the country," adding that he hasn't even reached some of his best states.
"We're going to do very, very well on the West Coast and other parts of this country," he said, before adding that citizens are jaded of "a corrupt campaign finance system, a rigged economy," and a "broken criminal justice system."
According to Politico Sanders beat Clinton 57 to 42 percent among white voters in the state, while she took most of the black voters with a 65-30 split. However, Sanders was immensely popular among independents, with 70 percent voting in his favor.


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As a new rule is now in effect making it so that they can only be filed online. Up to this time claims could be submitted over the phone, however the state of Idaho has done away with the tel-a-claim system due to federal budget cuts.
Local Idaho Department of Labor, Manager Sage Stoddard, said that they understand how this change affects those with limited access to a computer; however it was a move the state needed to make.
"There's some new federal guidelines as far as work search requirements and to put those requirements into the tel-a-claim system and to also accommodate the maintenance of the system we just don't have the funds to do that," said Stoddard.
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I don't even know where to begin with this review but I will try.... I have been on at least 8 different antidepressants in my life, various antipsychotics, anxiety medication, sleeping medication..the list goes on and on...I have tried different brands of 5HTP that were not time released like this one is...Nothing seemed to work to cure my depression of 12 years.. that is until I stumbled upon this time released form of 5htp from Natrol...From the first day I took it.. I began to feel amazing..at first I was worried that it might just be a placebo effect, but it has been about 2 months now and still feel great on a daily basis. I went as far as to email Natrol personally and thank them for this wonderful supplement that has changed my entire life. I think the key is the 15 hour time release "structure" of the pill that makes it last all day. I personally take 200mg in the morning with amazing results... I will continue to take this for the rest of my life... no joke.. Thank you Iherb and Natrol for putting a smile on my face :)
Never used other 5-HTP products, but dont even plan trying other brand for now (i already have ordered 2 more of this to have in my cabinet). I decided to order it after reading that it can help with the Apetite control and i can tell it really works. As big BONUS for me was the fact that i made my days emotionally easier, i dont feel the heavy feeling in my chest i had for years after so much stress. I like that its time released so i dont feel sleepy or groggy. Never had problems with my sleep so i take it at the morning to have more balanced serotonin levels during the day and to kill my hunger, but if you dont sleep well and wake up during the night, then its probably better idea to take it 30 mins before you go to bed. Its a really great help in my long trip of loosing weight and feeling strong and meeting my days healthy with a smile! Will add reviews to all other products i use to support my healthy weight loss, so if you like my review please let me know by clicking Yes and also feel free to check My iHerb page to see all my other reviews! Thank you!
Great product.
Posted by 4930397543670653525 on Aug 18, 2016
Helping my mood so much.
A brighter perspective!
Posted by 5537886114947194568 on Jul 13, 2016
This has without doubt lifted me up. I wasn't depressed but just didn't feel up to being sociable, creative or happy. It's definitely helped, I feel better in dealing with daily chores,,rude people & cooking for my family.
Yes and no
Posted by Reviewer1494157 on Jul 12, 2016
Pros: It is doing what it is supposed to be - it is making me calm and with no worries, day goes by perfect. Cons" terrible stomach ache plus heartburn. I am sensitive to 5htp. I thought this one having delayed release will make a difference. After one pill it took me 3 days of Ulcetrol and Glutamine to fix my stomach back to normal. For some reason it is like drinking acid; I don't want to take another pill, but if I will be desperate I will try taking it with Losec.
Elevated mood.
Posted by 5064430644097743672 on Jun 30, 2016
My 11 yo son has depression and is undergoing therapy, these have had a fabulous effect on him, (he started on a 50mg dose) I even checked it wasn't a placebo thing as I switched them with a multi vitamin and his mood fell dramatically. I highly recommend this, but if it's for a child you need to talk to your GP first.
Posted by 4881579548144642830 on Jun 17, 2016
Natrol manufacturers an excellent product with its slow release formula for the individual who no longer creates seretonin naturally.


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Product Description
Starter Front Steering and Suspension Kit for 1967 Mustangs.We offer a starter front steering and suspension kit to help get your Mustang back on the road. Replace those worn out rusty parts with this kit featuring direct replacement parts. Your Mustang will feel like a brand new car after the installation of our kit.
Kit Includes:
- Two upper control arms
- Two lower control arms
- Two coil spring saddles
- Two coil spring insulators
- Two front sway bar end links
- Two inner tie rods
- Two outer tie rods
- Two tie rod sleeves
- Strut rod bushing kit
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Product Questions
Does this kit come with new mounting hardware as well? (i.e. Lower control arm to shock tower bolt, Nuts for the Upper control arm to shock tower)
No, it does NOT. It only comes with what is listed and shown in the image above.
Date published: 2015-10-21
Hallo I am from Sweden. Can you send paket too Sweden
We do ship to Sweden. Just specify that at checkout.
Date published: 2015-05-26
1) I this perfect for all models of 1967 mustang? 2) what about the warranty ? 3) what is the weight for all the items?
I want to buy Stater front steering suspenision kit for my mustang 67 ht with power steering.Fit this kit my car I can get it send to me in Sweden
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