Posts Tagged ‘Mind-Hacks’
Encephalon #50 Edition: Brain & Mind Research
Welcome to Encephalon 50th edition, where you will find another superb collection of blog posts on all things Brain and Mind. Enjoy these contributions: Science & Technology Mind Hacks reports that Facebook ate my psychiatrist. We can learn about the benefits of social networking sites like Facebook, bringing great perspective to recent and misguided media speculation…
Read MoreMental Health News: NYT, Mind Hacks
A few very interesting New York Times articles over the last couple of days, plus a great opportunity for clinicians and researchers in Latin America. — Well: When a Brain Scientist Suffers a Stroke “Dr. Taylor recounts the details of her stroke and the amazing insights she gained from it in a riveting 18-minute video…
Read MoreMind Hacks and the Placebo Effect
In the ETech panel a few days ago, we discussed some futuristic and some emerging ways in which we can “hack our minds”, mostly from a technology point of view. Neither myself nor the other panelists thought of suggesting the most obvious and inexpensive method, proven in thousands of research studies. The secret compound?: Belief. Also…
Read MoreBrain News: Software, Education, Arts
A few updates and announcements: — 1) My apologies for slow blogging, due to travel. I participated yesterday in a fun panel discussion at ETech on Use Your Head- The Future of Mind Hacks. You can read some take-aways (in Italian, so this may be good brain exercise) here. — 2) We will release our…
Read MorePlacebo effect: why not more of it?
Senia writes a great article on How You Tell the Story of Your Life in Positive Psychology News Daily. As part of the story, she mentions a very fun study on the power of the Placebo effect. From Senia’s post: “In the February, 2007 issue of Psychological Science, Langer and colleague Alia Crum reported that they…
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