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Are you one of those misfortunates who suffers from emotional dysregulation? According to modern theory – augmented by EEG/fMRI confirmation – you then carry with you through life a poorly developed right pre-frontal orbito cortex, which is incapable of carrying out its executive role in the regulation of affect. It’s all due to chronic exposure to dysregulatory influences in childhood. I have it myself, but ... Full story

Catalent Pharma Solutions, one of the leading advanced drug delivery technology providers to the pharmaceutical industry, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted marketing approval for Metozolv™ ODT (orally disintegrating tablets) metoclopramide HCL utilizing Catalent’s Zydis® fast dissolve technology. Metozolv™ ODT was developed by Wilmington Pharmaceuticals and licensed to Salix Pharmaceuticals. Metozolv™ ODT is the first orally disintegrating tablet formulation for ... Full story

Dell already has itself a set of good-looking all-in-one PCs – including the high-end XPS One 24 and the mid-range Studio One 19 – but it’s extending its UK range today with the addition of the “great value” Inspiron One 19. The 19in all-in-one system, pictured below, first appeared in Japan at the tail end of October, and is now available to UK consumers. Dell’s entry-level model, ... Full story

Parallels has today launched the latest version of its Windows-on-Mac virtualisation software, Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac. The release claims to perform “22 per cent faster than the nearest Windows-on-Mac competitor”, unsurprisingly suggesting that Parallels’ solution is superior to VMware Fusion 3, launched this time last week. Like VMware Fusion 3, Parallels Desktop 5 introduces full support for Windows Aero and Flip 3D, on either 32-bit or ... Full story

Science now offers us ever more advanced ways to understand and control pain. But with those new treatments come new questions about the use (and misuse) of state-of-the-art technology and how far pain management can and should go. Is pain a symptom or a disease? How much pain should be relieved? Can reducing pain be inappropriate or detrimental? Can technologies capable of scanning the brain ... Full story

During today’s Time Warner earnings call, executives blamed AOL’s lower paid search revenues on lower query volume, lower cost-per-click prices, and on Google’s changes to the search algorithm. This last bit is telling news. In September, we learned that Microsoft Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi — the guy in charge of Bing and MSN — visited AOL CEO Tim ... Full story