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Maxime Lagacé

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

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    Benefits of meditation. Good examples
Maxime Lagacé

Ten Minutes Of Talking Improves Memory And Test Performance - 2 views

  • Spending just 10 minutes talking to another person can help improve your memory and your performance on tests, according to a University of Michigan study to be published in the February 2008 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
  • The higher the level of participants' social interaction, researchers found, the better their cognitive functioning.
  • The findings also suggest that social isolation may have a negative effect on intellectual abilities as well as emotional well-being. And for a society characterized by increasing levels of social isolation—a trend sociologist Robert Putnam calls "Bowling Alone"—the effects could be far-reaching.
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    Talking with friends helps us improve cognitive function. Social isolation do the opposite.
Maxime Lagacé

Why We Need Silence to Survive | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    Cut off distractions and sound for a moment...
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.
Cammy Torgenrud

Zapping the brain sparks bright ideas - life - 03 February 2011 - New Scientist - 5 views

  • Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a safe and non-invasive method of temporarily altering the activity of neurons by passing weak currents through electrodes on the scalp
  • Excitation of the right hemisphere and inhibition of the left made the participants three times more likely to figure out the correct answer within 6 minutes compared with those who received the sham treatment.
  • right ATL is associated with insight and novel meaning. It also backs up previous findings that the left ATL is involved in processing routine strategies and the maintenance of existing hypotheses
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

The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People | Zen Habits - 4 views

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    "In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone." ~Rollo May
Maxime Lagacé

The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connecte... - 4 views

  • Rates of depression and anxiety among young people in America have been increasing steadily for the past fifty to seventy years.
  • Rates of anxiety and depression among children and adolescents were far lower during the Great Depression, during World War II, during the Cold War, and during the turbulent 1960s and early ‘70s than they are today. The changes seem to have much more to do with the way young people view the world than with the way the world actually is.
  • One thing we know about anxiety and depression is that they correlate significantly with people's sense of control or lack of control over their own lives.
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  • Twenge cites evidence that young people today are, on average, more oriented toward extrinsic goals and less oriented toward intrinsic goals than they were in the past. For example, a poll conducted annually of college freshmen shows that most students today list "being well off financially" as more important to them than "developing a meaningful philosophy of life," while the reverse was true in the 1960s and '70s.
  • Twenge suggests that the shift from intrinsic to extrinsic goals represents a general shift toward a culture of materialism, transmitted through television and other media. Young people are exposed from birth on to advertisements and other messages implying that happiness depends on good looks, popularity, and material goods.
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    The education system is bases on accumulation of knowledge, tests, grades.  Children are not happy in that system.  There is a dramatic rise in anxiety and depression.  They should play more to learn better.
Maxime Lagacé

Cognitive Fun! - 2 views

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    Learn your mind. Play it too. Games for the brain
Maxime Lagacé

Babies are born to dance, new research shows - 1 views

  • Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech
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    Researchers have discovered that infants respond to the rhythm and tempo of music and find it more engaging than speech.
Cammy Torgenrud

Seeking the Connectome, a Mental Map, Slice by Slice - NYTimes.com - 1 views

  • how memories, personality traits and skills are stored.
  • The connectome is a product of your genes and your experiences. It’s where nature meets nurture.
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.
Maxime Lagacé

Quotes - 3 views

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    Nice Quotation site
Maxime Lagacé

Hypnosis: An Underused Technique | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    Hypnosis helps tremendously with many mental health conditions.
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.
Maxime Lagacé

YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive - 2 views

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    Excellent video on "how to motivate people"
Maxime Lagacé

Mind Your Body: Going Through the Motions | Psychology Today - 1 views

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    Mental practice makes perfect. How to perfect your golf swing on the airplane.
Maxime Lagacé

Psych Basics | Psychology Today - 2 views

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    Good Links about Psychology from PsychologyToday.com
Maxime Lagacé

Memory Games - 1 views

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    Remember the dots
Maxime Lagacé

Free Brain Games | Play Free Online Brain Training Games | Brain Training 101 - 1 views

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    Free Brain Games! Check out our free online brain training games. Play fun logic games, memory games, strategy and many more brain building games!
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