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Your Brain on Love
Read more: Your Brain on LoveA study shows scans of love-struck brains look the same in China as they do in the West. Regions of the brain related to addiction and even mental illness light up on the scan when a person sees a photo of his or her beloved…[New] scans showed that love lights up the brain in the same…
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Against “Halfalogues”
Read more: Against “Halfalogues”From the Los Angeles Times: Cellphone conversations we overhear really bug us. “Hafalogues” distract, annoy, and impair, says a study: [P]articipants were seated at computers and asked to perform various cognitive tests while exposed to one of the three sounds or silence. Hearing the halfalogue was the only background noise that distracted the study participants…
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Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)
Read more: Passionate Marriage (in 6 Simple Steps)Couples’ lit spotlight: Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships, by sex/relationship therapist, David Schnarch. The book samples actual sex therapy sessions to make its case. Don’t care to read 400 pages about how differentiation? Try the six-point plan linked from Schnarch’s website, posted here minus the explanations: Operate from the Best in Yourself. Sustain…
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Choice v. Anxiety
Read more: Choice v. AnxietyThe client knows best–studies catching up: Flexible Treatment Intervention Associated With Greater Improvement In Anxiety Symptoms (Medical News Today).
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Singing Away IBS
Read more: Singing Away IBSStudy: Irritable Bowel Syndrome felled by song. Previous studies have demonstrated the beneficial psychological and biological effects of singing, with associated feelings of relaxation, energy and joy. An inter-university Swedish study has set out to test whether there were any additional stress-related benefits from choir singing in comparison with other group activities… (Via GoodTherapy.org.)