Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 16 Apr 12

A PRANK played on a sleepy Belgian town involving a medical emergency, police, a football team and a woman riding a motor cycle in her underwear, has notched up nearly 20 million hits on YouTube. The prank was executed to promote a new European TV channel, and began with the planting of a podium in the town square atop of which was a large red button with an arrow pointing towards it saying press here to add drama. Once pressed a series of events was set in motion, including the arrival of an ambulance to collect a man, who then rolls out of the emergency vehicle on his stretcher, followed by a cyclist who runs into the van, which results in a smack-down fight between the cyclist and a paramedic, which leads into a police shoot out and a cameo by a woman in her underwear speeding through the town on a motorbike. To watch the clip CLICK HERE. INTELLIGENT worry. US scientists have posited that worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait. The study found that high intelligence and worry both correlate with brain activity measured by the depletion of the nutrient choline in the subcortical white matter of the brain, which, according to study head Dr Jeremy Coplan, Professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, may mean that intelligence may have co-evolved with worry. The study compared patients with generalised anxiety disorder with healthy patients to assess the relationship among IQ, worry, and subcortical white matter metabolism of choline. In the healthy volunteers, high IQ was associated with a lower degree of worry, but in those diagnosed with GAD, high IQ was associated with a greater degree of worry.

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