Music Warps Our Perception of Time

  Listening to music makes us believe less time has passed...think elevators, being on hold, waiting in a doctor's waiting room. The way it works is due to the limited capacity of sensory input. So when your brain is steadily distracted you're less likely to note the details of that which surrounds you...including passage of time.
  But an opposite effect may occur. When listening to music while performing a task that requires concentration will typically cause us to overestimate the amount of time that has passed. The theory is that the mind switches back and forth between listening to music and performing a challenging task...the brain forms distinct memories as separate events...inducing a sense of longer time to complete the task.
  Other experiments indicate that listening to music we dislike induces time expansion...our mind recognizes the opening notes and fast forwards the playback in our mind inducing an agonizing lag as we impatiently wait for the miserable tome to terminate.
  So doctors, elevator muzac makers take note...

Untensers Rock

  According to M. Keith Chen people that use languages that use no past or present tense, called "untensers" ie. Mandarin, consistently accumulate more wealth, hold onto it for longer periods of time, are healthier and live longer compared to those that speak a language with a tense. 
  Data was analyzed from 76 countries. It is thought that such"untensers"see their lives as less of a timeline and more of a whole. Tensers {those of us that speak english} see the past as something we've left behind and the future...a distant planet we are unlikely to visit.
Yale School of Business Dec 2012

New Life Saving Treatments in Opioid Overdose

  There are 19,500 deaths annually due to overdoses of prescription pain meds or heroin....every 27 minutes...think Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Winehouse, Jim Belushi, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin,etc,etc,etc. These deaths may have been prevented with a timely dose of a rapid-acting opioid antagonist naloxone.
  Only available to patients on prescription narcotics at risk is Evizio Auto-injector, the newly approved device that when placed against the skin injects naloxone intra-muscularly...a recorded voice coaches treating bystanders !
  Option 2 for illicit-opioid abusers...Naloxone Nasal Rescue Kit. BTW NYC has distributed 25,000 doses since 2010...but these kits require training for successful administration. Reckitt Benckiser recently licensed an intranasal naloxone device and is fast-tracking the spray to market.
WIRED mag August 2014 p.040 by Emily Dreyfuss

Increase Survival Following MCA Stroke

  Increased survival after middle cerebral artery distribution stroke was achieved in patients that underwent decompressive hemi-craniotomy.
NEJM March 20, 2014

Decrease Stroke Risk : Eat Like a Mediterranean

  Mediterranean diet decreases stroke risk.
Ann Neuro 2013

Increase Motor Function After Stroke

  According to the FLAME study, fluoxetine improves motor function in patients with weakness/paralysis following stroke.
Lancet Neuro 2011;377(9778):1693-1702

Adverse Effects of Marijuana Use

  An NIH study advises caution and the need for further study as more states explore marijuana legalization.
NEJM June 5, 2014