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When You Really, Really Have to go: Study Wins Ig Nobel Prize

Past winners have included scientists who found that asthma symptoms can be treated with a roller coaster ride and veterinarians who reported cows with names give more milk than those without.

On Sept. 29 at Harvard University, Robert H. Pietrzak, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, joined this elite company as a co-winner of one of ten 2011 Ig Nobel Prizes honoring “science that makes people laugh and then makes them think.”

The scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research recognized Pietrzak and his co-winners from Brown University, the University of Melbourne, and the firm CogState Ltd for their report last year that the extreme need to urinate creates cognitive difficulties equivalent to being fatigued or mildly impaired by alcohol. (more…)

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