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By using language to help us reflect on positive ideas and emotions, we can enhance our overall well being, and we improve the functioning of our brain. Via Sakis Koukouvis 
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Is music humanity's drug of choice? What is the mysterious power behind it's ability to captivate, stimulate and keep us coming back for more? Find out the scientific explanation of how a simple mixture of sound frequencies can affect your brain and body, and why it's not all that different than a drug like cocaine Via Sakis Koukouvis
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If this all sounds like scientific justification for afternoon naps, long showers, and Russian literature, you’re right. “We always assume that you get more done when you’re consciously paying attention to a problem,” Schooler told me. “That’s what it means, after all, to be ‘working on something.’ But this is often a mistake. If you’re trying to solve a complex problem, then you need to give yourself a real break, to let the mind incubate the problem all by itself. We shouldn’t be so afraid to actually take some time off.” Via Sakis Koukouvis
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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.” - Albert Einstein
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The point is to show how advances in imaging and data visualization technologies enable inter-disciplinary research which just a decade ago would have been impossible to conduct. There is also a somewhat artistic quality to these images, which reinforces the notion of data visualization being both art and science.
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A new study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning -- and how omega-3 fatty acids can minimize the damage.
SUGAR: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=sugar
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The way we use our hands may determine how emotions are organized in our brains.
Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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The Wellcome trust funds a significant portfolio of neuroscience and mental health research - ranging from studies of molecular and cellular components to work on cognition and higher systems. We also have strong interests in applied clinical research on neurological and mental health disorders and support activities that explore historical, ethical, social and artistic perspectives on the mind and mental health.
Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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If the human mind is not the clearly demarcated information-processing device so neatly objectified in the familiar exemplar of the computer, then what is it? And, indeed, where is it? Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Even the most rational of us experience it: you'll be chatting with friends or exploring a place you've never been when suddenly a feeling washes over you: you've experienced this exact moment before. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Ever gone to the movies and forgotten where you parked the car? New research may one day help you improve your memory. Via Sakis Koukouvis
Christian Ayala's curator insight,
March 18, 2013 9:51 AM
Memory is well needed in everyday life and improving memory would be well accepted |
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Scientists have located a specific set of neurons that indicate how time passes, confirming that the brain plays an essential role in how we experience the passage of time. Via Sakis Koukouvis, olsen jay nelson, Dr. Stefan Gruenwald
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The sexual objectification of women isn’t just in your head—it’s in everyone’s. A new study finds that our brains see men as people and women as body parts. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Some people take aspirin or ibuprofen to treat everyday aches and pains, but how exactly do the different classes of pain relievers work? Learn about the basic physiology of how humans experience pain, and the mechanics of the medicines we've invented to block or circumvent that discomfort. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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In their 2011 book Inside Jokes: Using Humor to Reverse-Engineer the Mind, Matthew M. Hurley, Daniel C. Dennett and Reginald B. Adams, Jr. explain the tight link between brain development and humor that cognitive neuroscientists have found. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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One of the greatest effects of the Internet is its ability to capture our attention only to scatter it, ultimately producing a generation whose brains are being better hardwired to scan, skim and multitask, causing a weakening in our ability to read and think deeply in a concentrated manner. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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For most of us, it's tricky enough to remember what we were doing this time last week, let alone on some random day years ago. But for a blind 20-year-old man referred to by researchers as HK, every day of his life since the age of about eleven is recorded in his memory in detail. HK has a rare condition known as hyperthymesia and his is only the second case ever documented in the scientific literature (the first, a woman known as AJ, was reported in 2006.
MEMORY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=memory
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Training the brain to reduce pain could be a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome, according to s neuroscience researcher. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Dan Gilbert, author of Stumbling on Happiness, challenges the idea that we'll be miserable if we don't get what we want. Our "psychological immune system" lets us feel truly happy even when things don't go as planned. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Being online does change your brain, but so does making a cup of tea. A better question to ask is what parts of the brain are regular internet users using. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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In making the case for the raw aesthetic appeal of neuroscience data, I focus on the powerful ideas that have given us this striking visual vocabulary.
Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=neuroscience
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Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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Horizon explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions - and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and why they fool us. Via Sakis Koukouvis
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