The power of love and friends for your health Staying married or good social connections can help you live longer are covered in this Washington post article. I have blogged on how social interactions can improve your health in a previous post. One interesting piece of data from the Washington post article is that social…
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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 7: Beauty-Brains, Schmoozing, Blueberries
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Image by Getty Images via @daylife Are good looking people also smarter? Would this be prove how fair the world is if on average the best looking people are also smarter? According to this one study that followed 17,419 from childhood through young adulthood did find this exact relationship: ‘Physical attractiveness is significantly positively associated withgeneral…
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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 6
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Lasting Love One of the most important things for our brain health are good social relationships, and this obviously includes our love interest. In last week’s better brain breakfast edition I discussed how love can hurt. This week on a happier note there is a new report that suggests that love can last, even in…
Weekend's Better Brain Health Breakfast
Weekend Better Brain Breakfast # 5
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Meditation may help addiction Over at Integratedneuroscience they have an interesting post about the growing body of research and practical tips on how you could use meditation to help with addiction: …the mindfulness that accompanies meditation has shown to be more effective than behavioral strategies that encouraged avoiding thoughts of substance use. Such thoughts inevitably…
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Weekend’s Better Brain Health Breakfast # 4
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Hoping everyone had a great holiday season and looking forward to an successful 2011. Many of us traveled during the holiday season and this post points to new research showing the negative affect on brains of continued jet lag in an animal model. A list of a few of the findings below indicate this is…