A new study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) explores how cognitive therapy that uses mindfulness techniques such as meditation, quiet reflection, and facilitator-led discussion, may serve as an adjunct to pharmacological treatments.
Date Posted: August 3, 2016
Categories: Anxiety, Mindfulness
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Using the landmark Framingham Heart Study to assess how physical activity affects the size of the brain and one's risk for developing dementia, UCLA researchers found an association between low physical activity and a higher risk for dementia in ...
Aug 3
Categories: Dementia
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Which early child characteristics predict long-term academic achievement and educational attainment? Research has focused on the role of early academic skills, learning enhancing behaviors, and socioemotional competencies as precursors of academic ...
Aug 3
Categories: Child Development
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Nightmares can be stressful in themselves not to mention a severe disruption upon much needed quality sleep time.
Aug 2
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Neuroscientists begin to understand how the brain controls its own memory center
Aug 2
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Going about our lives emotionlessly is robotic at best and, at worst, sociopathic.
Aug 2
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Some fats have an amazing negative effect on cognitive function and, potentially, eating habits.
Aug 1
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Why is our youth, from adolescence to early adulthood, so ripe with memories compared with other times in life?
Aug 1
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
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The right-hand bias, the leftie advantage, handedness and mental illness and more…
Aug 1
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder leads many to feel out of control. The symptoms may be so overwhelming some turn to the use of substances in an effort to calm themselves. However, there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that alcohol not only ...
Jul 30
Categories: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) / Trauma / Complex PTSD
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Reduce depression by combining two activities well-known to make you feel better.
Jul 29
Categories: Depression
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FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is a powerful phenomenon, the 21st century equivalent of keeping up with the Joneses.
Jul 29
Categories: Career Development and Change
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In the 1950s, the American psychologist Harry Harlow famously showed that infant rhesus monkeys would rather cling to a surrogate wire mother covered in cosy cloth, than to one that provided milk.
Jul 29
Categories: Child Development
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A team of scientists has found similarities in brain impairments in children with autism spectrum disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. The study involved brain imaging of white matter in 200 children.
Jul 28
Categories: Adult ADHD, Autism spectrum disorders, Obsessions & Compulsions ...
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One of the more prominent examples, the “broken mirror hypothesis”, suggests that an impaired development of the mirror neuron system (MNS) is to blame. First observed in monkeys, mirror neurons are more active when you perform a certain action ...
Jul 28
Categories: Autism spectrum disorders
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Long delays mean missed opportunities for early intervention to reduce the severity of episodes of bipolar disorder.
Jul 27
Categories: Bipolar
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New evidence shows the calming power of reminiscing about happy times
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