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Love Is The Ultimate Painkiller

9:19AM June 30, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Don’t bother with morphine the next time you are pain. All you need is a healthy dose of love to make yourself feel better in an instant. More »

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100,000 People Still Receive Electroshock Therapy Each Year?

2:00AM May 31, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Because the full effect on the brain is still unknown, electroconvulsive therapy is viewed as a last resort treatment for the mentally ill. Still, there are around 100,000 people seeking the treatment each year, including Carrie Fisher. More »

NASA Working On a Robotic Space Psychologist, Astronauts in Grave Danger

9:00AM October 26, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

NASA is set to begin work next month in Boston on a four-year, $US1.74 million project called the Virtual Space Station. The project is supposed to create a program that can independently counsel depressed astronauts by supplying solutions to their typed insecurities. AP writer Jay Lindsay insists that it’s nothing like HAL 9000, and he’s totally right: that was a movie, and this is terrifyingly real.

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