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Depression Good for You?…Maybe Not
Read more: Depression Good for You?…Maybe NotA vigorous response to the NYT’s Depression’s Upside article by Dr. Ronald Pies at PsychCentral: [W]e have the myth of depression as a “clarifying force,” or as an “adaptive response to affliction” — notions being advanced by a number of psychologists, psychiatrists, and sociologists. Thus, Lehrer quotes psychiatrist Andy Thomson as saying, “…even if you…
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Zone of Greatness: More Internet Dating Stats
Read more: Zone of Greatness: More Internet Dating StatsFor internet daters (and stats lovers), a series of new and old posts at the OkCupid.com blog: Interactive maps showing why men should be looking to date older women, among other things. Another entry looks at the data and comes up with Exactly What to Say in a First Message. Another looks at How Races and…
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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…