This is from an article in Aug/Sep 2008 issue of Scientific American Mind by R. Douglas Fields: It appears that cell phone use prior to…
Category: Brain & Neuroscience
A new study published in the most recent issue of the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology suggests that doodling can aid in memory recall. In…
For many years Gingko has been touted as a brain booster. In a trial published by the American Medical Association in November 2008, the results…
Here’s another really interesting piece of information from Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. One of his chapters that I like is on the “10,000 Hour Rule.” I’ve…
If we want to make ourselves anxious, a good way of doing it is by asking ourselves, “What if _________ happens?” Our brains are wonderful…
Have you ever had the experience of not being able to maintain concentration while reading and/or not remembering what you just read? Of course, this…
I love coffee…and the caffeine that comes with it. But there can be “too much of a good thing.” Coffee helped me make it through…
Our emotions are typically elicited by our thoughts. Situations, in a sense, are neither bad nor good…they just are. It is our thoughts about the…
Ok, I promise that I’ll stop with this at some point, but some research just came out on a link between sleep loss and obesity…
I recently ran across a new study that illuminates the negative effects of sleep deprivation on emotional regulation (a link to it as at the…