Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
May 6th, New York City: Anticipating and Shaping the Neuropsychology of the Future
Heads-up about an upcoming joint meeting by the New York Neuropsychology Group and the Psychology Section of the New York Academy of Sciences. What: Neuropsychology of the future and how we can prepare for it today When: Saturday May 6th, 2017, 10 am – 1 pm Where: Podell Auditorium in Bernstein Pavilion, Mount Sinai Beth Israel 10…
Read MoreAdding mindfulness to the PTSD therapist’s toolkit
—– Soldiers who return home in casts and caskets are not the only ones struck down by the trauma of war. Many young military men and women carry emotional wounds far beyond the battlefield in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This
Read MoreStudy: Raising a teen with ADHD adds significant stress to parents–especially to mothers
Numerous studies have established that parents of children with ADHD experience more stress in their parenting role than other parents. Although it is reasonable to expect that this would also be true for parents of adolescents with ADHD, this issue
Read MoreHow to measure and improve brain-based outcomes that matter in health care
How to measure and improve brain-based outcomes that matter in health care from SharpBrains Pioneers advancing health research, prevention and treatment helped us understand emerging best practices where
Read MoreStudy: Long-term meditation can help slow down aging-related brain volume decline
. Long-term meditation tied to less brain loss (Reuters): “People who reported meditating for an average of 20 years had higher brain volumes than the average person, researchers report in Frontiers in Psychology. Kurth and his colleagues write that they can’t say meditation caused its practitioners to lose less brain volume, however. Other habits of…
Read MoreBrain teaser to exercise your mental rotation cognitive abilities
Mental self-rotation is the cognitive ability to imagine yourself in different locations in space, and to imagine your body moving in space. We need it for everyday activities such as finding a place or reading a map. The ability involved is technically called egocentric spatial transformations (yes, that is the scientific expression) or mental self rotation, and the brain…
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