Psychology & Psychiatry
Boost your brain with boredom
"Mom, Dad, I'm bored."
Oct 6, 2022
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Autism spectrum disorders
How do we make workplaces work for autistic people?
The unemployment rate in Australia for autistic people is 34.1%, according to the most recent data. This is more than three times the rate for people with disability (10.3%) and almost eight times the rate of people without ...
Sep 14, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Can highly superior autobiographic memory enhance creativity?
Researchers from universities in Italy and the U.S. studied the relationship between memory and creativity to assess whether those who remember the smallest details of their lives (highly superior autobiographical memory) ...
Sep 13, 2022
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Neuroscience
How our knowledge of the world embedded in brain connectivity shapes our creativity
The group of Emmanuelle Volle at the Paris Brain Institute and their international collaborators established for the first time a link between real-life creativity, semantic memory structure and brain functional connectivity. ...
Feb 4, 2022
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Air quality impacts early brain development
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, have found a link between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk for changes in brain development relevant to neurodevelopmental disorders. Their study, based ...
Jun 17, 2020
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Health
Schools are a crucial place for physical activity programmes – here's how to make them work
The importance of promoting activity in young people cannot be overstated. It is a public health priority. And yet a new study reports that school-based physical activity programmes are ineffective at improving the activity ...
Jan 24, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers propose how REM and non-REM sleep may work together to help us solve problems
Sleep is known to be important for creative thinking, but exactly how it helps and what role each sleep stage—REM and non-REM—plays remains unclear. A team of researchers have now developed a hypothesis, outlined in an ...
May 15, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research suggests creative people do not excel in cognitive control
A recent study by a University of Arkansas researcher, Darya Zabelina, assistant professor of psychology, takes a new approach to measuring the association between creativity and cognitive control, that is, the mind's ability ...
Mar 6, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Creativity may rely on 'teamwork' in the brain
(HealthDay)—Scientists may have discovered what makes a creative mind tick: stronger connections among brain regions that usually work in opposition to each other.
Jan 17, 2018
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Neuroscience
Understanding mind-wandering could shed light on mental illness
If you think the mind grinds to a halt when you're doing nothing, think again.
Oct 31, 2016
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