Compassion
The Science of Staying in Love
This video from BigThink explores what goes on in the brain when we fall in love, and how we can sustain long-term relationships.
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Calm
Why Your Brain Panics Under Pressure
Do you ever feel like no matter how prepared you are, you always blank on the big day? This video from TedEd explains how short-term stress could be frying your memory.
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Focus
How to Keep Your Brain Fit as You Get Older
A new book outlines many ways to keep our cognitive skills strong and reduce the risk of dementia as we age.
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Calm
The Remarkable Brains of Long-Term Meditators
Researchers suggest that people with an advanced meditation practice might operate at a different level of awareness — and it shows in their brainwaves.
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How Mindfulness Can Help Your Brain Cope with Rejection
A new study finds that rejection is less distressing to mindful people (and their brains).
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Exploring Both Sides of the Brain-Mind Debate
Scientists insist on talking about the brain while the rest of us talk about the mind. Sharon Begley sizes up the two sides of the mind/brain conversation.
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Focus
The Magnificent, Mysterious, Wild, Connected and Interconnected Brain
Our brain is like a wild, raging electrical storm that wondrously enables us to make our way. Yet a lot of mindfulness literature makes it sound like a very simple machine. Two leading neuroscientists suggest better ways to think and talk about the brain and the mind.
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Calm
How Meditation Protects the Aging Brain from Decline
A string of recent research suggests regular meditation practice may boost mental flexibility and focus, offering powerful protection against cognitive decline.
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Calm
Meditators Have Younger Brains
When researchers at UCLA compared the brains of meditators to non-meditators they found that meditator’s brains were almost a decade younger by the time people reach their mid 50s.
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Forget Me, Forget Me Not…
We tend to think of memory as a one-shot deal. We experience something and we either store it in memory or let it go. New research suggests otherwise: Fresh data can draw out latent memories.
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