Science

5 Ways To Flip the Switch On Misery

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.

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Memory Keepers: What You Can Do for Your Brain

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.

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Discovering Your “Sharing” Brain

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

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How Magicians Use Illusions To Fool Your Brain

Clad in a tuxedo, the tall and bearded conjurer tosses the ball up. Once, twice, thrice — voilà! The ball disappears midflight. You’re absolutely sure that your gaze didn’t waver from it, so where did the ball go? Of course, it didn’t actually disappear forever

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

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

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Reaching For Gender Equality With Brain-Based Holistic Education

Out of 1,000 people, 504 are men (50.4%) and 496 are women (49.6%). We’re talking about half the world’s population. Vulnerable and disadvantaged women, and those who experience discrimination and inequality of any kind, need to be empowered if we are to achieve full inclusivity

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CIPA

Feeling No Pain: What It’s Like To Live With CIPA

An episode of the television medical drama “House” featured 16-year-old Hannah and her mother, who were in a severe automobile accident. Hannah saw her mother unconscious and dialed 911. She looked down and noticed a metal rod jammed in her own thigh. At the hospital, Hannah soon ran a

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energy

Balance Your Energy … And Your Brain

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

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How Did Our “Social Brain” Evolve?

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

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How Deep Sleep Helps Your Brain “Clean” Itself

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

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Juggling, Anyone? Learn A New Trick to Improve Your Brain’s Wiring

As a child, were you liable to shirk or embrace time spent practicing at the piano? British scientists have found that dedicating yourself to the pursuit of a new skill increases the amount of white matter in your brain. The good news is that even if you eschewed — or never opted for — piano lessons

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Our Brains Are Wired For Empathy

Empathy is wired in our brains. As a matter of fact, we have entire circuits dedicated to it. For instance, when we see someone engage in an activity or go through a particular experience, mirror neurons ignite in our brains. They play a role in helping us understand what someone else is going through

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Love Me, Maybe: The Neuroscience of Unpredictable Love

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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Getting Shorter As We Age: Adjusting to Shrinking Stature

As you grow older, have you noticed that there are some activities you can no longer perform? It may be because you’ve gotten shorter. As we age, we shrink. Starting around age 40, you typically lose about 0.4 inches every decade. Most of the height loss comes from gravity that continually compresses

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Playing Mind Games: How Criminal Interrogations Work

Not all criminals are created equal, nor indeed are all crimes. In order for law-enforcement officials to be able to see through the lies of someone who has committed a crime — as the suspect is trying to talk his way out of it — knowing the background of that individual is key.

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