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How To Retrain Your Frazzled Brain and Find Your Focus Again
Are you finding it harder than ever to concentrate? Don’t panic: these simple exercises will help you get your attention. Picture your day before you started to read this article. What did you do? In every single moment – getting out of bed, turning on a tap, flicking the kettle switch – your brain was blasted with information. Each second, the eyes will give the brain the equivalent of 10m bits (binary digits) of data.
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Depressed People See the World More Realistically
And happy people just might be slightly delusional. Feeling blue? Strangely, it might mean that you're actually better at judging your performance—and reality in general—than when you're not.
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The origin of consciousness
MuZero is an algorithm with a superhuman ability to learn: it has learned to play 57 different Atari video games as well as Chess, Go and Shogi, and defeated the greatest human masters in every one of them. Yet, this amazing algorithm and the computer in which it is implemented are as conscious as your washing machine. Its “intelligence”, manifest in its learning ability, has nothing to do with consciousness – the ability to feel, perceive and think in the deeply subjective sense that we cherish.
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The Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health
The belief that hidden memories can be "recovered" in therapy should have been exorcised years ago, when a rash of false memories dominated the airwaves, tore families apart, and put people on the stand for crimes they didn't commit. But the mental health establishment does not always learn from its mistakes—and families are still paying the price.
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Why hugging 8 times in a day daily is important.
Why hugging 8 times in a day daily is important is an interesting question…… Hugging is a handshake from the heart. The simple action of hugging creates good and positive energy for both the giver and recipient.
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What happens in the brain when people make music together?
Music is a tool that has accompanied our evolutionary journey and provided a sense of comfort and social connection for millennia. New research published today in the American Psychologist provides a neuroscientific understanding of the social connection with a new map of the brain when playing music.
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Anastasia developed a magnificent memory using these techniques
Imagine you're at dinner with friends and you've just been introduced to the person next to you. Would you remember their name? Before she began to train her memory, Australian memory champion Anastasia Woolmer says she would have had no chance. She worried that she had a shoddy memory in general.
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Mind Chat’s Philip Goff and Keith Frankish On Why We Are Conscious
We spoke to philosophers Philip Goff and Keith Frankish about their popular new online show, Mind Chat, in which they interview scientists and philosophers on the mystery of consciousness.
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Why dreams get more bizarre further into the night
How important are the contents of a dream? While some would say that they reflect the deepest desires of the dreamer, others insist they are best forgotten in the morning because they have no practical significance. Some people would even say that dreams reflect nothing but random firing of neurons (do they know what 'random' means?).
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Do Girls Really Show More Empathy Than Boys?
By Emma Young. Girls seemed to show more empathy in recent study, but results are far from conclusive.
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Do Brain Implants Change Your Identity?
The first thing that Rita Leggett saw when she regained consciousness was a pair of piercing blue eyes peering curiously into hers. “I know you, don’t I?” she said. The man with the blue eyes replied, “Yes, you do.” But he didn’t say anything else, and for a while Leggett just wondered and stared. Then it came to her: “You’re my surgeon!”
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Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field?
Some 2,700 years ago in the ancient city of Sam’al, in what is now modern Turkey, an elderly servant of the king sits in a corner of his house and contemplates the nature of his soul. His name is Katumuwa. He stares at a basalt stele made for him, featuring his own graven portrait together with an inscription in ancient Aramaic. It instructs his family, when he dies, to celebrate ‘a feast at this chamber: a bull for Hadad harpatalli and a ram for Nik-arawas of the hunters and a ram for Shamash, and a ram for Hadad of the vineyards, and a ram for Kubaba, and a ram for my soul that is in this stele.’
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Writing on Paper Is Much Better for Your Memory Than Writing on Your Phone
I don’t even remember the last time I tried to memorize a phone number.
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Stupidity Is Part of Human Nature
“There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have great admiration for stupidity” – the sentiment behind Oscar Wilde’s bonmot is strangely fashionable these days. For a good reason.
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What Happens in Your Brain When You 'Lose Yourself' in Fiction
Using characters from "Game of Thrones", researchers investigated what happens in the brain when people immerse themselves in fiction. The study found the more people became immersed in a story, the more they "became" the fictional character while reading. This was reflected in activity changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with thinking about one's self.
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Boys Who Play Video Games Have Lower Depression Risk
Gaming has soared thanks to people being forced to spend more time indoors. But, this overall increase in screen time has left some parents feeling anxious about their children’s well-being. While in the past, engaging in video games has often been portrayed as promoting violent behaviour or a “waste of time,” it could offer some unique benefits for young people as well.
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Traumatic stress in childhood can lead to brain changes in adulthood: study
A groundbreaking new study has shown that traumatic or stressful events in childhood may lead to tiny changes in key brain structures that can now be identified decades later.
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A New Path for Dealing with Fear
Society has attached a negative connotation to the emotion of fear – and for valid reasons. The last time you felt fear may have been in preparation for a job interview, or reviewing for an entrance exam, or dealing with the concerns associated with the pandemic. Indeed, most people would characterize these as instances related to some form of fear.
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Mindfulness meditation may decrease impact of migraine
Migraine is a neurological disease that can be severely debilitating and is the second leading cause of disability worldwide. Unfortunately, many patients with migraine discontinue medications due to ineffectiveness or side effects. Many patients still use opioids despite recommendations against them for headache treatment.
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Study finds night owls more likely to be psychopaths
People who stay up late at night are more likely to display anti-social personality traits such as narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathic tendencies, according to a study published by a University of Western Sydney researcher. Dr Peter Jonason, from the UWS School of Social Sciences and Psychology, assessed over 250 people's tendency to be a morning- or evening-type person to discover whether this was linked to the 'Dark Triad' of personality traits.
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