The chemical messenger dopamine – otherwise known as the happiness hormone – is important not only for motivation and motor skills. It seems it can also help neurons with difficult cognitive tasks. Torben Ott, Simon Jacob and Professor Andreas Nieder of Tübingen’s Institute for Neurobiology ...
Date Posted: December 9, 2014
Categories: Learning Difficulties
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If you've spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training - better known as "brain training" - is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement.
Dec 9
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Around 350 million people worldwide have depression. Antidepressant medications are often prescribed to treat the condition, alongside talking therapies and lifestyle changes such as regular exercise.But a substantial proportion of people either ...
Dec 8
Categories: Depression
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Why do we keep doing and feeling the same things over and over again, even when they aren’t serving us well in any capacity whatsoever? Oh, the madness!
Dec 8
Categories: Attachment Issues, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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We just came across a new and fascinating scientific paper, titled Development and evaluation of a self-administered on-line test of memory and attention for middle-aged and older adults, and published at Frontiers in ...
Dec 8
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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When we are blocked in an area of our lives it often is due to the fact that we feel safer that way. We may feel unhappy but that is easier to deal with than our fear of the unknown. We begin to change when the pain we experience in staying stuck is ...
Dec 6
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions
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People with type 2 diabetes in middle age had greater cognitive impairment in the following decades than did their nondiabetic counterparts. Dina Fine Maron reports
Dec 5
Categories: Aging & Geriatric Issues
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There are many aspects of memory, and they can all influence our judgments of others. For example, not only are we able to recall information about ourselves, but we also get a feeling for how easy it was to recall that information. That feeling ...
Dec 5
Categories: Self-Care / Self Compassion
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Hannah Dale and colleagues from the University of St Andrews have found some key markers for vulnerability to psychological problems in men experiencing cancer. Their results will be presented Thursday 4 December, at the Annual Conference of the ...
Dec 5
Categories: Anxiety, Cancer
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A new study from the UT Dallas Center for Vital Longevity shows that the brain activity prior to seeing an item is related to how well it is later remembered.
Dec 4
Categories: Other
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New research highlights the key to what makes us feel gratitude. There are lots of psychological benefits to gratitude: Feeling grateful to others can lift your mood. It enhances your feeling of connection to other people. Gratitude can also ...
Dec 4
Categories: Other
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Kids can get hyper, adults can gain weight - we all pay a heavy price for not sleeping
Dec 4
Categories: Sleep Disorders
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Vitamin D deficiency is not just harmful to physical health - it also might impact mental health, according to a team of researchers that has found a link between seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, and a lack of sunlight.
Dec 3
Categories: Depression
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Replenishing the supply of a molecule that normally activates cannabinoid receptors in the brain could relieve mood and anxiety disorders and enable some people to quit using marijuana, a Vanderbilt University study suggests.
Dec 2
Categories: Addictions
GOWhy is it that we find babies so cute, is this an inherently human trait?
Dec 2
Categories: Child Development, Parenting
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"The body has all of these failsafe systems in place to keep itself healthy," says Michael Lumpkin, Professor of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology at Georgetown University, USA. "All you really need to do is provide a healing ...
Dec 2
Categories: Workplace Issues
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