It’s World Mental Health Day today: Let’s review how a healthy diet can promote mental well-being

By Greater Good Science Center | October 10, 2019 |

_______________ Should you eat an apple—or a bag of Ore­os? Go to McDonald’s—or the veg­e­tar­i­an restau­rant on the cor­ner? When we make these every­day food choic­es, many of us think first of our phys­i­cal health and appear­ance. But there’s anoth­er fac­tor we may want to con­sid­er in pick­ing foods: their impact on our men­tal health.

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The debate continues: Review finds weak evidence standards behind commercially-available brain training programs

By SharpBrains | October 3, 2016 |

Brain Game Claims Fail A Big Sci­en­tif­ic Test (NPR): “In Octo­ber 2014, more than 70 sci­en­tists pub­lished an open let­ter object­ing to mar­ket­ing claims made by brain train­ing com­pa­nies. Pret­ty soon, anoth­er group, with more than 100 sci­en­tists, pub­lished a rebut­tal say­ing brain train­ing has a sol­id sci­en­tif­ic base. “So you had two con­sen­sus state­ments, each…

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ADHD @ high schools: Clear mismatch between the Evidence and the Practice

By SharpBrains | November 3, 2014

— Study: High School­ers with ADHD Receiv­ing Few Evi­­dence-Based Sup­ports (Edu­ca­tion Week): “A lit­tle over half of high school stu­dents with atten­tion deficit hyper­ac­tiv­i­ty dis­or­der are receiv­ing some kind of ser­vices from their schools, such as addi­tion­al time on tests or extend­ed time to com­plete home­work assign­ments, a recent study finds. But those par­tic­u­lar sup­ports have…

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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You’re Not

By Dr. Ginger Campbell | August 18, 2008 |

Where does our “Feel­ing of Know­ing” come from? Have you ever felt cer­tain that you knew an answer even though you could­n’t think of it right off? Where does that “feel­ing of know­ing” come from? The answer to this ques­tion is the focus of neu­rol­o­gist Robert Bur­ton’s new book On Being Cer­tain: Believ­ing You Are…

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