Posts Tagged ‘self-control’
Neuroimaging study: Unregulated stress can sabotage your self-control and your diet
. Brain scans show how everyday stress can sabotage your diet (CBS News): “As anyone who’s ever downed a pint of ice cream after a bad day at the office knows, the stresses of everyday life can sabotage self-control when it comes to diet. But why?
Read MoreMindfulness training for children with ADHD and their parents
Mindfulness training is an approach for enhancing mental health and alleviating mental health difficulties that is based on eastern meditation techniques. The focus of mindfulness training is to increase one’s awareness of the present moment, enhance the non-judgmental observation of one’s surroundings, and decrease impulsive and
Read MoreDr. Michael Posner on Developing Brain Networks and Self-Control
Dr. Posner will provide an update on latest research and applications to develop brain networks and self-control, at the upcoming 2012 SharpBrains Virtual Summit (June 7–14th, 2012). Michael Posner is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and Adjunct Professor at the Weill Medical College in New York (Sackler Institute). He is currently engaged in a…
Read MoreBrain Development Through Bilingual Education and Activities Requiring Self-Control
How To Help Your Child’s Brain Grow Up Strong (NPR): — “Kids who learn two languages young are better able to learn abstract rules and to reverse rules that they’ve already learned,” says Aamodt. “They’re less likely to have difficulty choosing between conflicting possibilities when there are two possible responses that both present themselves. They’re…
Read MoreA Course Correction for Positive Psychology: A Review of Martin Seligman’s Latest Book
(Editor’s Note: we are pleased to bring you this article thanks to our collaboration with Greater Good Science Center). A Course Correction for Positive Psychology A review of Martin Seligman’s latest book, Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. — By Jill Suttie As president of the American Psychological Association in 1998, Martin Seligman challenged…
Read MoreWho Says This is The Classroom of the Future?
The New York Times has recently published several very good and seemingly unrelated articles…let’s try and connect some dots. What if we questioned the very premise behind naming some classrooms the “classrooms of the future” simply because they have been adding technology in literally mindless ways? What if the Education of the Future (sometimes also…
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