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Researchers demonstrate brain plasticity also comes from activity dependent changes in oligodendrocyte precursor cell proliferation and myelin. 
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Tips you can try right now to train your brain to stay focused.
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A new study finds that great coaches don't focus on finding and fixing their team's weaknesses. They do this instead.
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Positive coaching vs. issue-oriented aaproach
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March 24, 2014 8:34 PM
Traditionally, coaching has largely been about identifying areas in need of improvement and supporting folks as they work towards better performance. But according to the latest science, there's actually a more effective way to go about it.
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Is it possible to explain the neuroscience of decision making in 30 seconds? Wired Science blogger Christian Jarrett gives it his best shot.
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Decision making process requires emotions as much as rational
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Exactly how the brain organizes memories in relation to each other has long puzzled scientists. In a new study, researchers set out to identify the nature of brain activity that puts a time stamp on memories.
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Don't trust you memories...
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Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found that decision-making accuracy can be improved by postponing the onset of a decision by a mere fraction of a second. The results could further our understanding of neuropsychiatric conditions characterized by abnormalities in cognitive ...
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Who would have thought...
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We are most creative at our non-optimal time of day.
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Our brains are pretty amazing, but they can make a lot of mistakes that we are not even aware of. Sometimes these may have negative long-term consequences, but often they just mean a moment of misu... Via Anne Leong
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February 7, 2014 10:23 AM
Some basic ways we misjudge situations and people. Good to remember as we go through day-day.
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This article discusses 35 proven psychological phenomena that affect you and your students' learning every day..
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How to learn better
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I spent an hour on this opening paragraph:
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How to increase motivation
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Understanding how imagination works could be the key to daydreaming yourself into a sharper, more creative person.
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How to make your imagination work.
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Why is it so hard to stick to a New Year's resolution. In this Q&A with psychologist Kelly McGonigal, she explains why—and how to push through.
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How to make successful resolutions
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From brain science comes optimism. Ignore its power, and you'll deprive yourself and your workers of greater skills
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Positive leadership...
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The neuroscience of moral judgment is "a field that's waiting for a big revolution sometime soon," experts say.
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The neuroscience of moral judgment
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Amy Novotney: The brain is more complex than corporate team-building exercises suggest, but the myth is unlikely to die anytime soon
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The ability to retain and recall information is an imperfect process even at the best of times — a shortcoming that now appears to be no accident. A new study shows that our brains are actively making us forget unimportant details, and that if it didn't, we'd probably go insane.
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Forgetting is useful
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"The self is more of a superhighway for social influence than it is the impenetrable private fortress we believe it to be."
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How we think when we are being creative and why the left-brain right-brain myth will probably never die. Recent findings on the Neuroscience of Creativity
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How to use our brains to be creative
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How to create an impactful presentation
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A new study finds that great coaches don't focus on finding and fixing their team's weaknesses. They do this instead.
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It starts in schools...
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Your grandma really did have some great advice. Science proves what she knew all along about the positive habits of good leaders.
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A few useful tips...
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New research suggests how to coach—and be coached—more effectively.
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How neuroscience helps to understand the employee engagement
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Maps of neural circuitry show women's brains are suited to social skills and memory, men's perception and co-ordination
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This study caused a lot of controversy, because of the interpretations of findings by the authors... But the fact, that men's and women's brains in this study were wired differently, was not disputed - just the significance of it.
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Brain plasticity - another study confirming how changes occur in our brains as a result of training