Brain, Emotional intelligence, Health
Does what goes on in your brain change according to your environment? Panos Mavros, Jenny Roe, Peter Aspinall and Richard Coyne think so. They fitted some people in Edinburgh with a new type of EEG recorder, and monitored their brain activity during a 25 minute walk through 3 different areas [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
Have you noticed how some people seem to be physically attached to their mobile ‘phones? I mean – you can’t separate the two! You know who I’m talking about. They’ve even got the damn things out in the restaurant. Without so much as an explanation, let alone apologising for their [...]
Brain, General, Health
OK! So sleep’s important for our mental health, immune system, for maintaining a healthy weight, for consolidating new information when we’re learning… There has to be a good evolutionary reason for our spending a third of our lives asleep! But if you share a bed, have you ever wondered about sleeping positions and what they [...]
Brain, Health
Rather than waiting for weekly therapy sessions with the rehabilitation specialist, now, thanks to Tej Tadi in Lausanne, Switzerland, stroke victims can treat themselves from the comfort of their bed. This is all thanks to virtual reality glasses guiding them through the relevant exercises, while a camera tracks their movements. [...]
Brain, Health
There’s an article on the Dana Foundation blog called, Epilepsy’s Big Fat Answer” and it would seem we’ve come a third time round the same circle. We’re treating epilepsy naturally with diet, as we did 100 years ago and as the Greeks did – how long ago? So we stopped [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
More news about good brain food… Fault Lines – Fast food, Fat profits: Obesity in America Obesity in America has reached a crisis point. Two out of every three Americans are overweight, one out of every three is obese. One in three are expected to have diabetes by 2050. Why [...]
Brain, Health
Oh dearie me! Yet more bad news for people who have difficulty sleeping. The latest, from Loughborough University’s sleep research Centre, is that if you don’t sleep along enough or well enough, you won’t just mess up your memory, immune system and your body’s natural response to stress, but you’ll also [...]
Brain, Health
Finally, it seems, there are some indications that people with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, invalided out of the military, are beginning to get the understanding, support and treatment they need. For too long, victims of this exhausting condition have been left to their own devices – most having to live [...]
Emotional intelligence, Health
It seems, the more we discover about the function of sleep, the more we realise the benefits of good quality sleep. We know that sleep is important in the memory consolidation proces, but we now know that lack of sleep is a factor in problems with overweight. Not only that, [...]
Brain, General, Health
When there’s so much information, and indeed, misinformation – and sometimes deliberate misinformation, perpetuated by marketing companies paid to sell stuff, is it any wonder that we don’t know what to eat for the best? There’s a Good Chance You’re Not Eating the Type of Fish you Ordered Fish are [...]
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