A study from the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Public Health finds students with standing desks are more attentive than their seated counterparts..
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Something to Think About
How experience may lead to misperception
How long is the way from the city hall to the train station? When we estimate distances, something curious happens: short distances seem longer, and long distances shorter than they really are...
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Scientists create the sensation of invisibility
The power of invisibility has long fascinated man and inspired the works of many great authors and philosophers. In a study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, a team of neuroscientists now reports a perceptual illusion of having an invisible body, and show that the feeling of invisibility changes our physical stress response in challenging social situations...
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Study: This is your teen’s brain behind the wheel
A new study of teenagers and their mothers reveals how adolescent brains negotiate risk - and the factors that modulate their risk-taking behind the wheel...
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The Homer Simpson Effect: Forgetting to Remember
New research suggests that the act of remembering causes forgetting of similar but irrelevant memories. Homer Simpson wasn’t a neuroscientist, but he evidently had some insight into how the brain works...
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Which Countries Are Ranked Happiest in the World?
Happiness seems to be most abundant a long way from the equator. At least according to the new World Happiness Report 2015...
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Living life in the third person
Cognitive scientists discover clues in the brain to an extraordinary memory glitch in healthy, high functioning people...
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Online discussion forums good for well-being, study shows
A new study has found that internet discussion forums have positive links to well-being and are even associated with increased community engagement offline, contrary to a common perception of them being outdated and prone to trolling...
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Beyond the Boundary Principle
When you think you know your therapist, think again...
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Mindfulness and antidepressants offer ‘similar level of protection’ against depression
The largest trial yet of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy finds that this treatment works about as well as antidepressants for reducing depressive relapses...
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