(Neuroscience News) Mindfulness may provide modest benefits to cognition, particularly among older adults, finds a new review of evidence led by UCL researchers.
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Smells and Emotions Tug on the Brain’s Habenula
(Neuroscience News) A tiny region in the middle of the brain plays a far more important role than previously known in helping it respond to changes in the environment, a new study shows.
The Ganzfeld Effect: A Fascinating Look Inside Your Mind
(Exploring Your Mind) What happens when your brain is stimulated evenly? Is your perception of the world altered? Find out in this article.
Sitting Upright Empowers Your Mind and Improves your Mood
(Exploring Your Mind) According to science, your brain and your postural axis are related. This means that something as simple as sitting up straight can improve both your mood and your attention.
Being Chased, Losing Your Teeth or Falling Down? What Science Says About Recurring Dreams
(Neuroscience News) Having the same dream again and again is a well-known phenomenon — nearly two-thirds of the population report having recurring dreams. Being chased, finding yourself naked in a public place or in the middle of a natural disaster, losing your teeth or forgetting to go to class for an entire semester are typical recurring scenarios in these dreams.
Digital Infidelity: Virtual Deceit has Consequences
(Exploring Your Mind) You no longer have to leave the house to be unfaithful to your partner. In fact, in the online world the possibilities are endless and there are multiple betrayals. Indeed, digital infidelity occurs more and more frequently. However, what’s behind this fact?
The Grounding Technique for Dealing With Stress
(Exploring Your Mind) When you suffer a severe emotional shock, you may become confused and paralyzed. The grounding technique can help you stabilize and return to the present.
Seven Keys to Developing Self-Efficacy and Feeling Competent
(Exploring Your Mind) Self-efficacy refers to the confidence you have in your abilities to achieve your own goals. It’s a basic dimension that conditions a good part of the future of plans that you draw up or projects that you undertake.
Why People Snub Their Friends With Their Phone
(Neuroscience News) Smartphones have made multi-tasking easier, more understandable, and at times compulsive. But in social settings, these devices can lead to a form of contemporary rudeness called phone snubbing, or phubbing, the act of ignoring one’s companions to pay attention to a phone.
Memory and Information Processing Affected by Isolation
(Neuroscience News) While there’s a lack of data on the Australian lockdown experience, a study on Italians who were locked down for about two months last year found an increase in distractions and mind wandering was common.
What Does Having a Good Life Mean?
(Exploring Your Mind) The Greeks said that a good life is a process and not a state. They claimed it was the daily search to achieve well-being. However, this is a never-ending task.
The Myth of Adonis and the Red Roses of Love
(Exploring Your Mind) The myth of Adonis is a story about love and beauty. More particularly, it’s about incestuous love, along with the punishments and tragedies it leads to. To this day, the story remains a symbol of the impossibility of this kind of love.
How You Eat Defines Your Personality
(Exploring You Mind) It seems that how you eat is linked to your personality. At least, that’s what a rather curious experiment suggests. It identified up to ten types of personality according to the way you eat. Which one do you identify with?
How to Stay Calm When a Loved One has Cancer
(Exploring Your Mind) Cancer is a word that can shake anyone’s world, whether you’re a sufferer or a loved one of a patient. In the latter scenario, you’re able to play an extremely important role. Find out how to do it here.
Wisdom, Loneliness, and Gut Microbiota are Linked
(Exploring Your Mind) Research in the USA has found a link between wisdom, loneliness, and the microbiota in your gut. What do these three things have in common and how do they affect you?