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Exuberant Eclectic: Walking Through Depression: Continuing the Conversation - 0 views

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shared by Daly de Gagne on 16 Apr 11 - No Cached

Daly de Gagne on 16 Apr 11

I write about my personal experiences this last week in working through depression, using mindfulness, walking, and cognitive restructuring - as well as Twitter, and drawing wisdom from a John Sandford novel, Rough Country.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I write about my personal experiences this last week in working through depression, using mindfulness, walking, and cognitive restructuring - as well as Twitter, and drawing wisdom from a John Sandford novel, Rough Country.</div>

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Literature and Latte - Scrivener - 0 views

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Creativity and the Aging Brain | Psychology Today Blogs - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09 - Cached

So instead of promoting retirement at age 65, perhaps we as a society should be promoting transition at age 65: transition into a creative field where our growing resource of individuals with aging brains can preserve their wisdom in culturally-valued works of art, music, or writing.
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Numerous studies suggest that highly creative individuals also employ a broadened rather than focused state of attention. This state of widened attention allows the individual to have disparate bits of information in mind at the same time. Combining remote bits of information is the hallmark of the creative idea.
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Other studies show that certain areas of the prefrontal cortex involved in self-conscious awareness and emotions are thinner in the aging brain. This may correlate with the diminished need to please and impress others, which is a notable characteristic of both aging individuals and creative luminaries.
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Finally, intelligence studies indicate that older individuals have access to an increasing store of knowledge gained over a lifetime of learning and experience. Combining bits of knowledge into novel and original ideas is what the creative brain is all about.
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Tero Toivanen on 03 Apr 09

The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The aging brain resembles the creative brain in several ways. For instance, the aging brain is more distractible and somewhat more disinhibited than the younger brain (so is the creative brain). Aging brains score better on tests of crystallized IQ (and creative brains use crystallized knowledge to make novel and original associations).</div>

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shared by Gareth Furber on 29 Dec 09 - Cached

Unsticking Joe's Life!: Hope Glimers Beyond the 101 Day Count Down - 0 views

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shared by Daly de Gagne on 15 May 10 - No Cached

Daly de Gagne on 15 May 10

Here's a guy who's dealing with fact he probably has some brain injury from when he's a kid, has major depression, and at best of times couldn't organize himself out of a paper bag - what psychologists call executive dysfunction. Painfully, experimentally, and in public, he's managing to put some of the pieces together. He may find healing for himself, plus a whole lot of good stuff which will help others.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Here's a guy who's dealing with fact he probably has some brain injury from when he's a kid, has major depression, and at best of times couldn't organize himself out of a paper bag - what psychologists call executive dysfunction. Painfully, experimentally, and in public, he's managing to put some of the pieces together. He may find healing for himself, plus a whole lot of good stuff which will help others.</div>

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Thoughts are things... - 0 views

What is a thought?A thought is an electrical impulse, which fires up your neurons that are your brain cells. Neurons are electrical excitable cells that process and transmit information via your fi...

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