Monthly Archive for January, 2011
The Neuroscience of Fear and Loathing
Fear is an innate emotion that is triggered by environmental stimuli perceived as potentially threatening or harmful. This emotion is so basic to human existence that its expression on a human face can be accurately recognized by anyone in the world. Thus, fear is a highly evolved, universal emotion whose existence is critical to survival.
Imagine the Possibilities
Researchers have discovered a way for people to eat less: imagine eating. Better than any diet pill, workout routine or all-cabbage-all-the-time regimen, simply thinking about eating food will make a person eat less.The work is based on a process called habituation -- a phenomenon that decreases the responsiveness to and motivation for obtaining food. (For example, the first bite of a hamburger or candy bar is often more exciting to the brain than the tenth bite.)
Own Your Actions to Keep New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s Day is really nothing more than an arbitrary day on the calendar, but it does allow people a chance to reflect on their life and their accomplishments. Many people, in turn, promise to change behaviors or circumstances they don’t like in the year ahead. While a lot of resolutions are aimed at living healthier and improved well-being, most, sadly, fail within the first few weeks (or days) of a new year. What can make this year’s resolutions different? Make the right resolutions and success will follow.
Social Network Addiction – A Scientific No Man’s Land?
The last decade witnessed an explosion of social networks such as Myspace and Facebook, which added a new social dimension to the web.While such networks have made people, communities and groups with shared interests stay more "connected," Internet addiction and social network addiction in particular also started being recognized as psychological disorders all over the world. While several 90's studies focused on Internet addiction, the next decade saw the growth of a new addiction related to all manner of social networking sites, especially the current king of the jungle: Facebook.
Popular Posts
- The Love Drug
- Women After Sex
- Fatty Acids and Suicide Risk
- Mind Games - Science's Attempts at Thought Control
- Risks of Personalized Medicine
- Is Giftedness Nothing More than Good Genes?
- Intelligence - Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
- Behind the Masks - The Mysteries of Dissociative Identity Disorder
- The NeuroSocial Network
- Inside Your Brain on Holiday
Future Posts
- Drug-Induced Mystical Experience
- Facebook – Coming to a 12-Step Program near You?
Latest Posts
- Therapeutic Analysis of Dreams – A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach
- Small Groups Make Women Stupid
- Psychotherapy and Clinical Boundaries
- The Brain’s Buying Power
- Aging Intelligently
- A Nicotine Patch a Day Keeps the Cognitive Impairment Away
- The Many Emerging Roles of Astrocytes
- Diabetes Impairs Cognition
- Media Violence Leads to Real Violence
- Intelligence – Are You Holding Back Your Brain?
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