Health
Help for chocoholics
Does a bowl full of luscious Lindt balls make you drool? Or can you learn to turn those cravings into other thoughts?
Mar 13, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Teach yourself everyday happiness with imagery training
Flashbacks of scenes from traumatic events often haunt those suffering from psychiatric conditions, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). "The close relationship between the human imagery system and our emotions ...
Feb 24, 2017
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Neuroscience
Here's what we can learn from people with synaesthesia
Imagine what the world would be like if numbers had specific spatial locations, music had shapes, or colours made sounds. Perhaps you'd experience the bass in the Jamie xx track Gosh as cuboid, metallic and heavy, with spiralling ...
Feb 1, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Can positive memories help treat mental health problems?
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have published a study highlighting the effectiveness of using positive memories and images to help generate positive emotions.
Apr 20, 2016
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Neuroscience
Study shows individual differences in brain activity can be predicted using task-free fMRI
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with Oxford University has found that it is possible to use task-free fMRI images to predict brain activity during the performance of certain tasks. In their paper published in the ...
Neuroscience
Robotic therapy works better if stroke patients' brains are stimulated by electricity
Research that could help stroke victims with severe disabilities to regain control over their limbs has been produced by a team at A*STAR. They have shown that stimulating the brain with electric current can help stroke victims ...
Dec 2, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Imagination beats practice in boosting visual search performance
Practice may not make perfect, but visualization might. New research shows that people who imagined a visual target before having to pick it out of a group of distracting items were faster at finding the target than those ...
May 18, 2015
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Health
App addresses challenges women face trying to quit smoking
When it comes to quitting smoking, women may need some extra motivation, researchers say.
Apr 29, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
MRI shows association between reading to young children and brain activity
Among the advice new parents receive is to read to their babies early and often. The hope is that sharing books together will help children's language development and eventually, turn them into successful readers.
Apr 25, 2015
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The power of mental visualization in maintaining real-life muscle
Anyone who has worn a cast knows that rebuilding muscle strength once the cast is removed can be difficult. Now researchers at the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI) at Ohio University have found that ...
Jan 5, 2015
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