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Combatting PTSD by letting patients hear their own brainwaves

Now a study conducted at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center has found that a novel form of treatment reduced symptoms of the disorder by effectively letting patients "hear" their own brainwaves.

While it affects an estimated 7 to 8 percent of the general US population, PTSD is a particular problem for people serving in the military.

Symptoms include depression, insomnia, flashbacks, and emotional distress, which can over time greatly disrupt a person's everyday life.

"Ongoing symptoms of post-traumatic stress, whether clinically diagnosed or not, are a pervasive problem in the military," says Charles H. Tegeler, principal investigator on the study.

There, algorithms turn those readings into auditory frequencies and play them back in close to real-time, letting patients literally hear their own brain activity.

As a result, that resets the stress response patterns and helps fight the symptoms of PTSD.

Over 12 days, these patients received on average about 20 HIRREM sessions each, with symptoms recorded both before and after. »

The Strange Case of When Michael Jackson Almost Bought Marvel

Authored by moviepilot.com

Here's an interesting fact that you might not know about Michael Jackson, back in the 1990s the King of Pop seriously tried to buy Marvel Comics.

Michael Jackson was a great businessman, as well as being a great onstage talent.

For Spider-Man, they were talking to director James Cameron and, apparently, Michael Jackson wanted to be cast as the title role. »

Crossfitter Burns 2,000 Calories Per Day Talking About Crossfit

Authored by schmedium.org

— Local Crossfitter Charles Higgins is able to burn over 2,000 calories per day doing nothing but talking about Crossfit, sources say.

According to Higgins, talking incessantly about his most recent workout of the day, or “WOD,” has helped him change from a “weak and ignorant” non-Crossfitter to the elite athlete he has become.

Higgins, who names the one time he saw Rich Froning at a paleo juice bar as the finest day of his life, says that just weeks after he began talking about Crossfit he saw improvements in both strength and endurance. »

'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price

Authored by hollywoodreporter.com

From the get-go, Wall Street analysts lauded The Walt Disney Co.'s decision in 2012 to buy Lucasfilm — home of George Lucas' Star Wars franchise — despite a high price tag of $4.06 billion.

They weren't wrong in their enthusiasm for Disney chairman-CEO Bob Iger's empire-building.

The Lucasfilm purchase followed Disney's 2009 acquisition of Marvel Entertainment and its 2006 purchase of Pixar, all engineered by Iger. »

Trump’s website is coded with a broken server error message that blames Obama

Authored by techcrunch.com

The website of Donald Trump, who has spent several days in a row at the golf course, is coded to serve up the following message in the event of an internal server error: https://t.co/zrWpyMXRcz pic.twitter.com/wiQSQNNzw0 — Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) December 28, 2017.

In both instances, the Obama dig is paired with a 404 error message that states “What do Hillary Clinton and this link have in common?

It will never actually serve that message, there's an error in the JavaScript…any error will give the 404 message because they used assignment (=) instead of equality (==) pic.twitter.com/un8LJM9Fsu — Paul Glenn (@pdglenn) December 28, 2017. »