Everyone knows that exercise makes you feel more mentally alert at any age. But do you need to follow a specific training program to improve your cognitive function?
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Month: March 2015
Making mistakes while learning is better for memory
Making mistakes while learning can benefit memory and lead to the correct answer, but only if the guesses are close-but-no-cigar, according to new research findings from Baycrest Health Sciences.
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Magic May Lurk Inside Us All
Several streams of research in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy are converging on an uncomfortable truth: We’re more susceptible to magical thinking than we’d like to admit.
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Tai Chi may favorably affect the inflammatory system
A randomized controlled trial published in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics indicates effects of a medictation techniqie, Tai Chi, on the inflammatory system.
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The Problem With Positive Thinking
It calms you down but drains you of energy...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/opinion/sunday/the-problem-with-positive-thinking.html
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Change your walking style, change your mood
Our mood can affect how we walk - slump-shouldered if we're sad, bouncing along if we're happy...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/283979.php
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March 20th is “International Day of Happiness”
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Can You Learn Self-Control?
Walter Mischel conducted the famous marshmallow test in the late 1960s to see how children develop and exert willpower. Can we learn to control ourselves?...
http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/14/can-you-learn-self-control/
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Newly discovered brain cells explain a prosocial effect of oxytocin
Oxytocin, the body's natural love potion, helps couples fall in love, makes mothers bond with their babies, and encourages teams to work together...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/283775.php
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Why Teen Girls Are at Heightened Risk of Depression
Adolescence is often a turbulent time, and it is marked by substantially increased rates of depressive symptoms, especially among girls...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008122100.htm
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