‘Unplugged’ experiment detaches students from the media

Published October 25, 2010

‘Unplugged’ experiment detaches students from the media
Twenty-four hours without media. No internet, no mobiles, no TV… The biggest global media experiment. Ever. First year students at Bournemouth University in the UK have been sacrificing their TVs, mobile phones, the internet and all other gadgets for 24 hours as they take part in a groundbreaking global media experiment called ‘Unplugged’.
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UTHealth Named NIH Drug Addiction Research “Center Of Excellence”
By delivering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to drug abuse and addiction research, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) has been renewed as a “Center of Excellence” by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. The designation comes with a five-year, $ 11 million grant that will be used to further studies led by …
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Alcohol Increases Reaction Time And Errors During Decision Making
There has been an abundance of research on the effects of alcohol on the brain, but many questions regarding how alcohol impairs the built-in control systems are still unknown. A new study released in the January 2011 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, which is currently available at Early View, explores that subject in detail and found that certain brain regions involved in …
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