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Maxime Lagacé

YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive - 2 views

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    Excellent video on "how to motivate people"
Cammy Torgenrud

Mental Health Disorders Untreated in Many Teens - Mental Health Disorders on MedicineNe... - 3 views

  • Researchers examined data from a nationally representative sample of 6,483 adolescents, aged 13 to 18, and found that only 36.2% of those with any mental disorder received treatment.
  • one in five teens with anxiety, eating or substance abuse disorders received treatment. In addition, Hispanic and black adolescents were less likely than whites to receive treatment for mood and anxiety disorders, even when the disorders caused severe impairment, the researchers noted.
Cammy Torgenrud

Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness | Magazine - 3 views

  • What the battle over DSM-5 should make clear to all of us—professional and layman alike—is that psychiatric diagnosis will probably always be laden with uncertainty, that the labels doctors give us for our suffering will forever be at least as much the product of negotiations around a conference table as investigations at a lab bench
Maxime Lagacé

Soren Gordhamer: The Rise and Benefits of Mindfulness - 3 views

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    Benefits of meditation. Good examples
Maxime Lagacé

How Superstitions Improve Performance - PsyBlog - 0 views

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    Experiments reveal that simple superstitions like lucky charms can improve motor and cognitive performance.
Maxime Lagacé

Nature Boosts Self-Evaluation of Vitality: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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    People report that spending time in nature increases their feelings of energy and vitality. And it looks like nature is the key, not just the physical activity one often engages in when outside. Karen Hopkin reports
Maxime Lagacé

Keep your fingers crossed: How superstition improves performance - 3 views

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    New research shows that having some kind of lucky token can actually improve your performance - by increasing your self-confidence.
Leigh Newton

The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind - Fireside Learning: Conversat... - 1 views

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    Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.
Cammy Torgenrud

Brain Scans Spot Effective Bluffers - 0 views

  • The brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
  • he brain scans of the most deceptive players showed "differential activation in right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and left Brodmann area 10" at the time of their deception, and strategic types showed a "significant correlation between activation in the right temporoparietal junction and expected payoff" that the other types did not show.
Cammy Torgenrud

Neuromarketing - Ads That Whisper to the Brain - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Neuromarketing’s raison d’être derives from the fact that the brain expends only 2 percent of its energy on conscious activity, with the rest devoted largely to unconscious processing.
  • Add all those electrical patterns together, he says, and “you find it represents the whispers of the brain.”
Cammy Torgenrud

Teasing Out the Effects of Environment on the Brain - Dana Foundation - 0 views

  • Epigenetics is defined as the study of heritable changes in gene activity that are not due to changes in DNA sequence. Instead, they may be caused by “silencing” a gene, for example, rather than mutating it.
  • These changes remodel the architecture of the chromosomes, opening up a particular gene to the machinery that synthesizes protein, or closing it down, so that the gene is switched off.
Cammy Torgenrud

Nervous System | AnatomyCorner - 0 views

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    Some good slidesets of brain, etc... worth borrowing and reformatting
Cammy Torgenrud

Sins of the Grandfathers - Newsweek - Sharon Begley - 0 views

  • the life experiences of grandparents and even great-grandparents alter their eggs and sperm so indelibly that the change is passed on to their children, grandchildren, and beyond. It’s called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance
  • the phenomenon in which something in the environment alters the health not only of the individual exposed to it, but also of that individual’s descendants.
  • Other labs, too, are finding that experiences—everything from a lab animal being exposed to a toxic chemical to a person smoking, being malnourished in childhood, or overeating—leaves an imprint on eggs or sperm, an imprint so tenacious that it affects not only those individuals’ children but their grandchildren as well.
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  • The result raises the intriguing possibility that the childhood-obesity epidemic is at least in part due to alterations in sperm caused by fathers-to-be eating a high-fat diet. After all, while it’s fine to blame kids’ couch-potato ways and fattening diets, that does not explain why obesity in babies has risen 73 percent since 1980.
  • how good your memory is during adolescence “can be influenced by environmental stimulation experienced by one’s mother during her youth
Cammy Torgenrud

Educational Leadership:Closing Opportunity Gaps:The Myth of Pink and Blue Brains - 0 views

  • Few other clear-cut differences between boys' and girls' neural structures, brain activity, or neurochemistry have thus far emerged, even for something as obviously different as self-regulation.
  • Our actual ability differences are quite small. Although psychologists can measure statistically significant distinctions between large groups of men and women or boys and girls, there is much more overlap in the academic and even social-emotional abilities of the genders than there are differences (Hyde, 2005). To put it another way, the range of performance within each gender is wider than the difference between the average boy and girl.
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  • Baby boys are modestly more physically active than girls (Campbell & Eaton, 1999). Toddler girls talk one month earlier, on average, than boys (Fenson et al., 1994). Boys appear more spatially aware (Quinn & Liben, 2008).
  • Avoid stereotyping
  • Appreciate the range of intelligences
  • Strengthen spatial awareness
  • Engage boys with the word
  • Recruit boys into nonathletic extracurricular activities
  • Bring more men into the classroom
  • Treat teacher bias seriously
Cammy Torgenrud

Differences in brain development between males and females may hold clues to mental hea... - 1 views

  • female rats have about 30 to 50 percent more glial cells in the amygdala region of the temporal lobe of the brain than their male litter mates
  • females had lower amounts of endocannabinoids, which have been dubbed the brain's own marijuana because they activate cannabinoid receptors that are also stimulated by THC
  • female rats also played 30 to 40 percent less than male rats
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