{"id":5069,"date":"2005-08-25T15:48:58","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5069"},"modified":"2005-08-25T15:48:58","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T19:48:58","slug":"not-thinking-is-bad-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/not-thinking-is-bad-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Not<\/i> Thinking is Bad for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by <a href=\"http:\/\/demagogue.blogspot.com\/\">Zoe Kentucky<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsday.com\/news\/health\/ny-hsalz254396781aug25,0,1676238.story?coll=ny-health-headlines\">Great<\/a>.  I am so screwed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists have scanned the brains of young people when they are doing, well, nothing, and they found that a region active during this daydreaming state is the one hard-hit by the scourge of old age: Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We never expected to see this,&#8221; said Randy L. Buckner, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University in St. Louis. He said he suspects these activity patterns may, over decades of daily use, wear down the brain, sparking a chemical cascade that results in the disease&#8217;s classic deposits and tangles that damage the brain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just what I needed to hear, daydreaming may be bad for my health. Between that and graduating from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princetonreview.com\/college\/research\/rankings\/rankingDetails.asp?categoryID=3&#038;topicID=28\">#1 pot-smoking college in America<\/a> I should just give up already, accept the fact that my poor brain is fighting an uphill battle. Most people get better with age, I&#8217;m destined to just&#8230;.um, forget. <\/p>\n<p>Let the bad news just pile on, it washes over me, lovingly, like a ton of bricks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post by Zoe Kentucky Great. I am so screwed. Scientists have scanned the brains of young people when they are doing, well, nothing, and they found that a region active during this daydreaming state is the one hard-hit by the scourge of old age: Alzheimer&#8217;s. &#8220;We never expected to see this,&#8221; said Randy L. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}