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Music is Brain Food
Read more: Music is Brain FoodDon’t want to learn an instrument? Just turn on the radio. From the L.A. Times: “Music is sort of the perfect activity that people can engage in from young to older years. It affects how the brain develops and affects how the brain changes in structure” at any age, Schlaug says. For the mature brain,…
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Touching Recommended
Read more: Touching RecommendedAnother study, again posted by the New York Times, suggests a little bit of physical contact does big things. [I]n recent years some researchers have begun to focus on a different, often more subtle kind of wordless communication: physical contact. Momentary touches, they say — whether an exuberant high five, a warm hand on the…
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Pins and Needles: Acupuncture v. Depression During Pregnancy
Read more: Pins and Needles: Acupuncture v. Depression During PregnancyStudy of the day, as posted by the New York Times: Up to a quarter of all women suffer from depression during pregnancy, and many are reluctant to take antidepressants. Now a new study suggests that acupuncture may provide some relief during pregnancy, even though it has not been found to be an effective treatment…
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Worldview Trumps
Read more: Worldview TrumpsAn NPR story about a report that details how little the facts matter to people–beliefs trump science again and again. “People tend to conform their factual beliefs to ones that are consistent with their cultural outlook, their world view,” Braman says. The Cultural Cognition Project has conducted several experiments to back that up…