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Discovering Happiness By The Numbers

March 20, 2021

Are you happy? Fewer questions are more open-ended or catch us by surprise than this one. How happy should we be and how often? Our usual instinct is to say “yes” — but we probably answer more reluctantly than usual. It’s a moment when it’s almost impossible to not compare the life

5 Ways To Flip the Switch On Misery

March 17, 2021

People who complain excessively think they are expressing their feelings about their lives — but they do it repeatedly, incessantly, and annoyingly — to anyone who will listen. Of course, none of it is their fault — they feel like helpless victims, that there is nothing to do to change what they perceive as pitiful circumstances.

How Travel Benefits Your Brain

March 17, 2021

As vaccinations become more widely distributed across the world, you may find that you are finally in a place where you can enjoy travel again. Especially with all the recent stresses from the pandemic, taking a vacation might just be the thing you need — and a growing body of evidence shows that travel is very good for your brain.

Memory Keepers: What You Can Do for Your Brain

March 16, 2021

If the inability to recall where you put your keys, parked your car, or remember the name of someone you just met has you convinced you’re losing your mind, you’re not alone — or off the mark. As you get older, your brain loses mass as cells die out, and memory goes with them.

The Wonder of Math: A Conversation With Danica McKellar

March 14, 2021

When you were a kid, did you have an easy time with math? Were you the type of student who intuitively took to it or were you in the other category, struggling to get the concepts and struggling even more to apply them in real life? Many young adults tend to experience difficulty mastering

Discovering Your “Sharing” Brain

March 13, 2021

If you’re a parent of a toddler, then there’s one monosyllabic phrase that undoubtedly punctuates your days: “Mine!” Children are good at many things that might give grown-ups green horns — such as touching their toes and falling asleep anywhere, to name just a few — but it seems that sharing

The Best Traits Of Your Brain

March 10, 2021

Based on the scientific research so far, neuroscientists consider three things to be the human brain’s most important characteristics: complexity, changeability (plasticity), and infinite potential. As a brain philosopher and brain educator, I’m glad that my personal experience with my own and other brains led me to

Mozart in the Crib? How Music Fosters Learning In The Infant Brain

March 9, 2021

For centuries, lullabies have been used by various cultures around the world to pass down cultural knowledge and tradition, but most importantly they facilitate a nurturing relationship between caregiver and child. They have been seen to develop infants’ communication skills and attentive awareness, modulate

Forging Ahead Together: Margaret Heffernan on Group Success

March 5, 2021

The road to success seems obvious — plenty of hard work and a goal to rise to the top. It may be intuitive, but is it accurate? Margaret Heffernan, an international businesswoman, believes that true success may require thinking outside the box for answers, something she discusses

Saving The World With Chimps

March 3, 2021

In the Disney documentary “Chimpanzee” we journey deep into the African rainforest — with its sprawling forests, wind-swept clouds, crackling lightning storms, and microscopic night creatures — and learn the story of a young chimpanzee named Oscar coming to terms with the loss of his mother, Isha, and his unusual adoption by

Balance Your Energy … And Your Brain

February 26, 2021

Calmness and assertiveness are the energies of the two main branches of our autonomic nervous system. The autonomic nervous system plays a major role in sensory awareness, emotions, behaviors, and basic organ-system functioning. Its two main branches are the sympathetic and parasympathetic, and they are managed by

3 Ways That Older People Can Relieve Stress

February 24, 2021

Getting older is a fact of life, and one that we often may not want to accept. While we can maintain a healthy body with a good diet and physical exercise, it is also important to be able to relieve stress as you get older. As you age, your brain as well as your body goes through physical changes, which affect how it functions as

How Did Our “Social Brain” Evolve?

February 23, 2021

Beginning about 2.5 million years ago a particular organ underwent a threefold increase in volume, leading to the creation one of nature’s most complex, social, and efficient structures: the human brain. The explanations as to what drove this progressive development are still debatable, yet evolutionary

How Deep Sleep Helps Your Brain “Clean” Itself

February 22, 2021

Whether we look forward to it or not, most of us think we understand the value of a long, uninterrupted sleep every night — often after we’ve gone without it for too long. Laura Lewis and her team of researchers at Boston University have sacrificed a great deal of sleep too — but they understand

Love Me, Maybe: The Neuroscience of Unpredictable Love

February 13, 2021

The ups and downs of an unpredictable relationship — and, more so, an unpredictable partner — can be infuriating, irritating, and it plagues levelheaded males and females of all races and economic backgrounds. We like to think that we’re fairly rational and sensible when choosing a partner; that consistency, companionship, and commitment

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