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• HoloThink Review: It’s not WHAT You Think, It’s HOW You Think

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 152
  That our mental and fleshly upbeat is affected by certain sound frequencies is the underway belief of researchers as the termination of the colossus strides of mentality power over the terminal decade.  The power of how sound waves change the mentality is famous as “neurotechnology,” “entrainment,” and ...
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• Use Your Brain

  
  Internet Time Blog — Authority: 413
  At Online Educa, I chaired a session on neuroscience and learning, Here’s a synopsis from Online Educa’s News Portal. “Use Your Brain!” – Neuroscience and Education N euroscientists are progressing rapidly in their research into areas highly relevant to education. Educators are eager to learn about ...
  4 days ago

• VPR Commentary: Psychology of Climate Change Denial

  
  Learned On Women by Andrea Learned — Authority: 114
  What motivates the average person to engage with the tough societal issues?  That’s a question I’m deeply exploring in both my work and master’s studies these days.  An article by George Marshall in Yes Magazine helped me put some framework around the psychology of climate change denial, specifically, and ...
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• Conditional Consciousness: Predicting Recovery from the Vegetative State

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 150
  Editors note: The original online version of this story was posted on September 20, 2009. In patients who have survived severe brain damage, judging the level of actual awareness has proved a difficult process. And the prognosis can sometimes mean the difference between life and death. New research suggests that ...
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• Brain Science Podcast #64: Third Annual Review

  
  Dr. Ginger Campbell's Blog and Podcasts — Authority: 399
  Episode 64 of the Brain Science Podcast is our Third Annual Review Episode . It includes a review of some of the major ideas we talked about in 2009 and a look ahead to what I have planned for 2010. Listen to Episode 64 Subscribe to the Brain Science Podcast: Click here for ...
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• HoloThink Review: It’s About How You Think

  
  Health Resources — Authority: 143
  In the last decade, brain science has taken huge leaps forward, and now many researchers believe that our mental and physical health is affected by certain sound frequencies.  How sound waves affect the brain is called by different names, including “neurotechnology,” “entrainment,” and “Binaural Effect,” ...
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• Busted! The Surcharge for “Women’s” Product Versions

  
  Learned On Women by Andrea Learned — Authority: 114
  Nothing like an article in Psychology Today to put something into perspective.  Some brands charge more for products they can pitch as “for women.” As consumers, women have always sensed this to be the case, but the article’s author, William Poundstone, lays it all out for us – almost like a Jon Stewart ...
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• Dissection Begins on Famous Brain

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The brain of a man who lost the ability to form new memories will be digitally mapped in exquisite detail.
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• Does Social Media Help or Hinder Productivity?

  
  FP Posted — Authority: 524
    By Ray B. Williams Does the use of social media in the workplace benefit organizations and educational institutions and help productivity or hamper productivity? Thats a question many leaders and educators are debating in organizations, even while students and employees immerse themselves in social media for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Millennials and face-to-face communications

  
  FP Posted — Authority: 524
  By Ray B. Williams Baby Boomers  like face-to-face communication whereas Millennials prefer the cell phone or social media. Or do they? The International Association of Business Communications released a report recently which stated, among other things, that while Millennials frequently use electronic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Comfort Food Does Reduce Stress

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  A high-fat, high-sugar diet could have the same effect on brain chemistry as mood-altering drugs, giving scientific support to the craving for “comfort food”, Australian researchers said on Tuesday. A controlled study of rats that were traumatised in early life and went on to exhibit depressed or anxious ...
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• Polyphenols and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Boost the Birth of New Neurons, Study Finds

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 142
  You can now add consuming healthy fats and fruits to the exercise as a way to increase neurogenesis, the creation of new neurons in the brain. However, I will want to see these results reproduced by independent researchers - this study was funded and conducted by the people making the "functional food" under review. ...
  3 weeks ago

• What would be more horrifying than "locked-in" syndrome?

  
  The Lippard Blog — Authority: 416
  Numerous mass media outlets and blogs are reporting on the misdiagnosis of Rom Houben of being comatose for 23 years when he was really conscious, according to Belgian neurologist Steven Laureys, who has claimed for years to be able to treat patients allegedly in a persistent vegetative state with electric shocks and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Do Women Have “Social” Advantage?

  
  Learned On Women by Andrea Learned — Authority: 114
  As stereotypes and many scientific interpretations of brain gender would have it, there are all sorts of reasons why women are just better at being “social.” We could leave it at that, or… consider other angles.  And, because it has some pretty significant implications for today’s business world, I thought a ...
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• What’s It Going to Take to Make You Happy?

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 563
  Happiness. Ahh, what an enticing word that is. Psychologists call it “subjective well-being” (and even abbreviate it as SWB in their research), but it boils down to the same thing — what makes us more happy? And how can we do more of that special stuff that will lead to greater happiness in our lives? This ...
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• Experts Claim Insects May Be As Intelligent as Larger Animals

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  A honeybee’s brain weighs one mg and contains fewer than a million nerve cellsInsects with minuscule brains may be as intelligent as much bigger animals and may even have consciousness, it was claimed today.  Having a brain the size of a pinhead does not necessarily make you less bright, say researchers. Computer ...
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• The Reading Brain

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 127
  Huh, I guess I need to add Stanislas Dehaene’s new book, Reading in the Brain, to my shopping list. The second major mystery explored by Dehaene is how reading came to exist. It’s a mystery that’s only deepened by the recency of literacy: the first alphabets were invented less than 4,000 years ago, ...
  4 weeks ago

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