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Study: Meditation Can Help Adults and Children with ADHD
By Alvaro Fernandez · 16 years ago
Travel back, in your mind's eye, to a time when you felt a healthy exhaustion after hiking, biking, playing sports.., and let you re-live that moment as vividly as you can. Then, remember, re-experience, a ...
Improving Brain Functioning For Healthy Aging: Interview with scientist Jerri Edwards
By Alvaro Fernandez · 16 years ago
Today we are fortunate to interview Dr. Jerri Edwards, an Associate Professor at University of South Florida's School of Aging Studies and Co-Investigator of the influencial ACTIVE study. Dr. Edwards was trained by Dr. Karlene ...
Brain Training for Stress Management: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programs
By Alvaro Fernandez · 16 years ago
Stanford University's Robert Sapolsky and others have shown how chronic stress may contribute to the death of neurons in our brains. The question is, with all the thousands of courses and products out there that ...
Emotional Intelligence, Reading Faces, and Meditation
By Alvaro Fernandez · 16 years ago
Concealed emotions, also called facial "microexpressions", are the fleeting expressions that, believe it or not, you make when consciously or unconsciously trying to hide your true emotions. In conscious microexpressions you may be trying to ...
How Can I Improve my Short-Term Memory? Is There a Daily Exercise I Can Do to Improve It?
By Alvaro Fernandez · 17 years ago
The most important component of memory is attention. By choosing to attend to something and focus on it, you create a personal interaction with it, which gives it personal meaning, making it easier to remember. ...