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September 2015

Science of Stress: How Neuroscience Can Help Teachers Switch Off this Summer

By |2016-01-18T22:36:45+11:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , |

www.someecards.com Weeks into the summer holiday, many teachers are still experiencing the stressful fallout of last term. For some, this is the exhaustion of burnout. For others, worries about the upcoming school year are already on the horizon. But there are simple steps you can take to build a positive mindset, strengthen your [...]

How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus

By |2015-09-28T11:24:01+10:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , , |

cdn.theatlantic.com Something strange is happening at America’s colleges and universities. A movement is arising, undirected and driven largely by students, to scrub campuses clean of words, ideas, and subjects that might cause discomfort or give offense. Last December, Jeannie Suk wrote in an online article for The New Yorker about law students asking her fellow professors [...]

We Found Only One-Third of Published Psychology Research is Reliable – Now What?

By |2015-09-28T15:43:48+10:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Science & Research, Technology|Tags: , , , , , |

Galleryhip The ability to repeat a study and find the same results twice is a prerequisite for building scientific knowledge. Replication allows us to ensure empirical findings are reliable and refines our understanding of when a finding occurs. It may surprise you to learn, then, that scientists do not often conduct – much [...]

In first, Scientists Use Sound Waves to Control Brain Cells

By |2015-10-02T14:13:09+10:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Science & Research|Tags: , , , , , |

Georg Wiora Salk scientists have developed a new way to selectively activate brain, heart, muscle and other cells using ultrasonic waves. The new technique, dubbed sonogenetics, has some similarities to the burgeoning use of light to activate cells in order to better understand the brain. - Salk Institute Source: In first, scientists use sound [...]

Taming Hot Flashes Without Hormones: What Works, What Doesn’t

By |2015-09-28T09:47:12+10:00September 28th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , , |

Gettyimages Some three-quarters of North American women have menopausal hot flashes, but many cannot use hormones for medical reasons or choose not to. Numerous products and techniques are promoted for hot flashes, but do they work, and are they safe? To answer these questions, a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) panel of experts [...]

Selfie Deaths Outnumber Deaths From Shark Attacks Since 2013

By |2015-09-28T15:47:41+10:00September 27th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture, Technology|Tags: , , , , , |

Extreme selfie poseur, Kirill Oreshkin (still alive). The Russian government has launched a campaign against such dangerous photographs, which has led to the deaths of others. Photo: Facebook Which of these is more likely to kill you: a shark or a photograph? At least 11 people have died this year while trying to [...]

Queen, Abba and the Beach Boys Best Feel-Good Music Science Says

By |2015-09-28T15:44:24+10:00September 27th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , , |

A Dutch neuroscientist has come up with a formula to determine what makes a song uplifting and in the process he's identified the ultimate feel-good track of all-time. - Peter Vincent Source: Queen, Abba and the Beach Boys best feel-good music science says

Resilience and Girls

By |2015-09-21T10:08:31+10:00September 19th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing, Science & Research|Tags: , , , , , |

www.laurelschool.org Over the past year, Resilient Youth Australia has surveyed 18,156 young Australian females in years 3 to 12 to gain a picture of their resilience. This paper is written to help you think about ways to build upon the strengths of girls and young women as well as addressing their areas of [...]

Mental Health ‘Labels’ Can Do More Harm than Good, Warn Researchers

By |2015-09-21T12:31:06+10:00September 19th, 2015|Categories: Mental Health & Wellbeing|Tags: , , , , , |

loisirs.lemessager.fr, Shutterstock Diagnosing patients with medical labels to describe mental health conditions or severe mental health illnesses such as 'personality disorder' or 'schizophrenia', can have negative impacts on professionals working with them and could lead to less effective treatments being delivered, according to leading clinical psychologists based at our University. According to the [...]

Storytelling for the Elephant in the Room

By |2015-09-21T10:15:08+10:00September 19th, 2015|Categories: Society & Culture|Tags: , , , , , |

123RF.com, Stockphoto Stories are everywhere. They draw people together and hold an enormous capacity to evoke connection and create change. It is how humans interact and has been our main source of passing on knowledge for more than 27,000 years. We are wired to think in narrative and make decisions based on cause [...]

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