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Maxime Lagacé

Does Too Much Media Make our Kids Sick? | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    Does Too Much Media Make our Kids Sick? The new couch potato: Internet Inflation
Cammy Torgenrud

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

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  • 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
Maxime Lagacé

For many Vancouver Olympics athletes, sports psychology is key / The Christian Science ... - 1 views

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  • They rely on it to build their confidence, their belief in their training and their own capabilities
  • That includes breathing exercises – like yoga, but not, he says – and sessions both with the psychologist and alone. “Also some visualizing,” he adds. “I try to visualize every possible situation – with wind, with fog, with people around me. Sometimes it stresses me when people are around me, when they pass me very fast.”
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Feb 10
     
    Think what you will, but many Vancouver Olympics athletes now rely heavily on sports psychologists to help them focus and perform at their best.
Cammy Torgenrud

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

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  • 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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  • Cammy Torgenrud on 04 Nov 10
     
    Some good slidesets of brain, etc... worth borrowing and reformatting
Cammy Torgenrud

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

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  • 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

6 Brain Sensors You'll Be Using Soon - 0 views

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    "USING EEG TO SEND TWEET" and similarly cool new devices under development
Cammy Torgenrud

Brain Scans Spot Effective Bluffers - 0 views

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  • 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

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

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  • 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
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
Cammy Torgenrud

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

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  • 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.”
Maxime Lagacé

Zen Meditation: Thicker brains fend off pain - 0 views

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  • People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain, according to a new study published in a special issue of the American Psychological Association journal
  • central brain regions that regulate emotion and pain were significantly thicker in meditators compared to non-meditators
  • Maxime Lagacé on 24 Feb 10
     
    People can reduce their sensitivity to pain by thickening their brain.
Maxime Lagacé

Toddlers and TV: Early exposure has negative and long-term impact - 0 views

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    Very possible effects : future decrease in classroom engagement and success at math, increased victimization by classmates, have a more sedentary lifestyle, higher consumption of junk food and, ultimately, higher body mass index.
Maxime Lagacé

How a Lack of Control Leads to Superstition: Scientific American - 0 views

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  • Lacking Control Increases Illusory Pattern Perception
  • Lacking control is highly aversive, so we instinctive­ly seek out patterns to regain control—even if those patterns are illusory.
  • The sense of control had the apparent effect on physical health and well-being.
Maxime Lagacé

Word Fast/Qwerty: Type Fast Challenge - 0 views

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    Improve your cognitive function - fun game - type fast to destroy enemy
Maxime Lagacé

The Dynamic Duo: Imagination + Knowledge | Psychology Today - 2 views

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  • Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • while daydreaming, your thoughts are gliding and ricocheting all over the place--past, present, future--accessing all your stored knowledge, memories, experiences
  • Many brilliant individuals--from Einstein to Mozart--credit their imagination as the source of their creativity and genius.
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  • He famously said: "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  • Without imagination, knowledge would just be a set of facts and figures going nowhere.
  • Maxime Lagacé on 23 Jan 10
     
    Study confirms robust daydreaming and superior intelligence are connected.
  • Beth D Johnson on 24 Apr 14
     
    Thinking over things, whether daydreaming or being involved in deep thought over conceptual knowledge or experiences (which can involve both), strengthens connections and builds various domains and connections within our brain, among other things. This results in higher intelligence, memory consolidation, etc. - neural plasticity at its finest.
Maxime Lagacé

Consumers Stop Buying As Number Of Options Increase - 0 views

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  • It is a common belief that having more options is better, and that people tend to go to stores that provide them with more choices. However, a new study in the journal Psychology & Marketing reveals that when people cannot easily determine which option is preferable, they are more likely to leave the store empty-handed.
Maxime Lagacé

Persuading Novice Voters With Abstract Or Concrete Messages: Timing Is Everything - 0 views

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  • tend to be more persuaded by abstract messages when the choice is far in the future, and by concrete messages when the choice is in the near future
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