(Exploring Your Mind) Some people can’t stand to be separated from their significant other, even for a day. This kind of attachment is so intense and unhealthy that a breakup can be emotionally devestating. Let’s learn more!
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The Moral Brain: The Neuronal Basis for Ethics and Human Values
(Exploring Your Mind) Neuroscientists have discovered the brain circuits that make up the moral brain. These mechanisms enable us to carry out altruistic and prosocial behavior that can often be observed even in very young children.
Difficulties are Opportunities in Disguise
(Exploring Your Mind) Albert Einstein used to say something along the lines that difficulties are opportunities in disguise. However, how to see them when you’re depressed and anxious? Continue reading to find out.
How Does the Social Brain Give Humans an Evolutionary Advantage?
(Exploring Your Mind) The social brain is one of the main resources humans have to overcome the challenges of our environment. It allows you to live in the company of others and feel protected, among other things.
Positive Reframing: Seeing Life from a New Perspective
(Exploring Your Mind) While we can’t always change what happens to us, we can choose how we interpret and respond to different situations. By reformulating our way of thinking, we can find a certain balance, which will allow us to better cope with adversity.
How to Spot Consumer Deception
(Exploring Your Mind) Did you know that most ads are based on consumer deception? They induce you to buy products and services, under false pretenses. For instance, they promise you all sorts of benefits or privileges, which aren’t all that great in the long run.
Why Do You Eat More When You’re Stressed Out?
(Exploring Your Mind) You probably eat more when you’re stressed out. This kind of appetite, unlike organic hunger, doesn’t come from your stomach. It comes from your brain. Why does this happen?
The Secret of Alchemy and Psychology
(Exploring Your Mind) Alchemy is the exact opposite of the uninitiated might think or expect. The gold you’re looking for isn’t material. Instead, it’s found within us, a sparkling gold spark that holds the divine essence of creation.
The Main Risk Factor for Mental Disorders Identified
(Exploring Your Mind) Recent research conducted in the USA assures that adverse experiences during childhood is the main risk factor for mental disorders. These have profound consequences, both in physical and mental health.
How to Strengthen Your Relationship During Confinement
(Exploring Your Mind) The confinement that you may be experiencing these days can greatly affect your relationship with your partner. In this article, we share some valuable advice that may help strengthen your relationship during confinement.
Gut Microbiota and Addiction
(Exploring Your Mind) Did you know that your intestines have their own nervous system that communicates with the brain? As a result of this link, researchers have begun investigating the relationship between microorganisms in the intestines and pathologies such as addictions.
You Can Learn Self-Love and Self-Esteem
(Exploring Your Mind) “I don’t love myself” is one of the most damaging phrases you can say to yourself. However, many people really believe it. What most don’t realize is it’s a learned myth. You can learn self-love and self-esteem the same way you learned to think you don’t love yourself.
Hysteria: Attention-Seeking Or A Cry For Help?
(Exploring Your Mind) Unhappiness, frustration, and disappointment are just some of the most common causes of hysteria, which can be expressed in a number of different ways. A fit of hysteria takes these feelings of displeasure to a more extreme level, manifesting itself as a loss of emotional or physical control.
The Neuroanatomy of Emotions: The Limbic System
(Exploring Your Mind) In order to describe the neuroanatomy of emotions, Paul Broca first described the limbic system in 1878. It wasn’t until later, in the 1930s, that James Papez finally named it the limbic system, and suggested that it participated in the neural circuit of emotional expression (Kolb and Whishsaw, 2003).
James Vicary and Subliminal Advertising
(Exploring Your Mind) James Vicary’s experiment was a very popular 1956 experiment that took place in the United States. Said experiment supposedly proved that people can be mentally manipulated with, what he called, “subliminal advertising”.