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Is this for real?  A new study says the human race is in danger of becoming too attached to -- robots?  But it's true. Robots are being used for everything these days, from delivering trays to hospital rooms, to performing hysterectomies, to vacuuming rooms, to deactivating deadly explosive devices at war. "It's becoming more common to have robots sub in for humans to do dirty or sometimes dangerous work. But researchers are finding that in some cases, people have started to treat robots like pets, friends, or even as an extension of themselves," newswise.com reports. It almost sounds a little too far-fetched to be believed but some wonder "if a soldier attaches human or animal-like characteristics to a field robot, can it affect how they use the robot? What if they 'care' too much about the robot to send it into a dangerous situation?" A researcher at the University of Washington interviewed highly trained soldiers who use robots to ...

Soldiers know what survivors of rape and assault and crime know.  Once you have been traumatized , your brain never goes back to what it was, even when there is no stress in your life. According to a story at newswise.com, once the brain has endured enough trauma, it functions abnormally even in the absence of stress. Previous imaging studies of people with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, have shown that these brain regions "can over-or under-react in response to stressful tasks, such as recalling a traumatic event or reacting to a photo of a threatening face." But now researchers at NYU School of Medicine are studying what happens in the brains of combat veterans with PTSD when there are no external triggers, newswise.com reports. PTSD is known for triggering nightmares, panic attacks, flashbacks and instability. As someone who has suffered from PTSD also, it's not something you ever want to relive.  And yet, you relive it almost every day. S...