Posts Tagged ‘physical-health’
Study: Job satisfaction in your 20s and 30s has a significant impact on your physical and mental health in your 40s
Early job satisfaction has strong link to mental health (Learning & Development Professional): “…the study found job satisfaction in your late 20s and 30s has a link to overall health in your early 40s. While job satisfaction had some impact on physical health, researchers found its effect was especially strong for mental health.
Read MoreSix events to raise awareness and funds for women’s brain health on May 21st
Maria Shriver and Ann Romney are hosting women’s brain health event on May 21 (The Boston Globe): “Nearly two-thirds of those with Alzheimer’s disease are women. It’s a scary fact, and that’s why Maria Shriver has teamed up with Equinox Sports Club to host “Move for Minds,” an event that aims to raise awareness and…
Read MoreOn “ethical placebos,” Medicine, and Mind/ Body interactions: A book review
When I was 10 years old, I hated doing the dishes. In an attempt to talk my parents out of making me do this hated chore, I pretended to be ill by hanging my head, sighing, sniffling, and walking lethargically to my bedroom, all to no avail—I still had to do those dishes. But, the…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MorePromoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement: Building an Experience Corps
(Editor’s note: Pathways responsible for higher-order thinking in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), or executive center of the brain, remain vulnerable throughout life—during critical early-life developmental windows, when the PFC fully matures in the early 20s, and finally from declines associated with old age. At all ages, physical activity and PFC-navigated social connections are essential components…
Read MoreExperience Corps: Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement
The current issue of Cerebrum –a great publication of the Dana Foundation– includes the excellent in-depth article Promoting Healthy, Meaningful Aging Through Social Involvement: Building an Experience Corps, written by researcher Michelle Carlson: “Over the last decade, scientists made two key discoveries that reframed our understanding of the adult brain’s potential to benefit from lifelong…
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