Youth unemployment can lead to long-term cognitive and emotional scars

. Youth unem­ploy­ment pro­duces mul­ti­ple scar­ring effects (British Pol­i­tics & Pol­i­cy): “Being unem­ployed when young leads to a high­er like­li­hood of long-term ‘scar­ring’ in lat­er life in terms of sub­se­quent low­er pay, high­er unem­ploy­ment and reduced life chances accord­ing to much research…There is also evi­dence of greater men­tal health prob­lems in their 40s or 50s

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The real brain drain: How unemployment depletes cognitive and emotional resources

. How Unem­ploy­ment Impacts Your Per­son­al­i­ty (Entre­pre­neur): “Unem­ploy­ment is no cake­walk. It’s well doc­u­ment­ed that an invol­un­tary job­less state can take a steep toll on one’s emo­tion­al and phys­i­cal health, and now new research illu­mi­nates a more sub­tle, if high­ly cor­ro­sive, con­se­quence the inabil­i­ty to find work can have on a per­son. In short, it…

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Dr. Chapman Q&A Transcript: Best Brain Health Fitness Tip? “Never let status quo be an option”

Here’s the light­ly edit­ed tran­script of the Jan­u­ary 4th online Q&A ses­sion with Dr. San­dra Chap­man, Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Brain­Health at UT-Dal­las and author of the new book Make Your Brain Smarter (Free Press; Jan­u­ary 2013). Enjoy! 1:59 AlvaroF: You can start writ­ing ques­tions so we have a few to choose from as we…

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