Tag: Mental Health

  • Email apnea: how your email is making you sick

    Is Your Email Making You Sick? One Thing New, inc.com Researcher Linda Stone says 80% of us suffer from so-called email apnea. That quelches our creativity and can contribute to stress-related diseases. Your inbox may be caus­ing you more stress than you real­ize. Accord­ing to Linda Stone, a… Is Your Email Making You Sick? http://flip.it/21Hqu…

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  • Melon: a headband that measures your mental focus

    Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental Focus By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com Melon explores an interesting new frontier of the quantified self: your noggin’. Does check­ing Twit­ter dur­ing the work­day real­ly leave you scat­ter­brained? Could tak­ing up med­i­ta­tion help you tune out the noise and focus bet­ter? Melon… Kickstarting: A Headband That Measures Your Mental…

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  • Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into weird loners

    sarahpetersmiller1969, grist.org WikimediaAll by myself. I don’t need anyone at all. I know I’ll survive. I know I’ll stay alive. Perch are shy. They like to band together for protection, swimming together in schools the way nerds all share the nerd table in the high-school… Fish swimming in water contaminated by anti-anxiety drugs turn into…

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  • FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression

    FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating Depression By Anya Kamenetz, fastcompany.com Today the Unit­ed States Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion approved a device that treats depres­sion using… mag­nets. About 14.8 mil­lion Amer­i­can adults, or 6.7 per­cent of the U.S. adult pop­u­la­tion, are diag­nosed with major depres­sion in … RT @FastCompany: FDA Approves Magnetic Helmet For Treating…

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  • A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman

    A Cheeky Guide To Eating Like A Caveman By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com Corn is a grain, knucklehead. Keep­ing up with the eat­ing habits of our cave-dwelling ances­tors can be tough. Luck­i­ly some­one has slapped togeth­er a handy flow­chart for you to ref­er­ence if you’ve hopped on the lat­est diet-craze… http://flip.it/TxJpy Related articles Eating Like A…

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  • Top chemicals causing autism

    Top 10 Chemicals Most Likely to Cause Autism and Other Learning Disorders Jennifer Chait, inhabitots.com This year, the CDC reported that autism now affects 1 of every 88 American children, which is an unusually high increase from previous years. Now, we may have some more clues as to what is causing the dramatic increases. The…

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  • The promise and perils of cities

    Cities have been the engines of civilization for millennia, serving as places where the arts, commerce, and ideas flourish.  But as we are reminded in a recent article, the close social interactions that make a city so productive also proved ideal for tuberculosis, measles, the plague, and many other diseases. In European capitals, circa 1800,…

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  • Biological Anthropologists search for Stress Vaccine

    Robert Sapolsky a bio anthropologist is leading the search for a stress vaccine using evolutionary science. Under Pressure: The Search for a Stress Vaccine | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Researchers create needle-free vaccine out of sugar (itv.com) Vaccine effectiveness tied to sleep habits (time4sleep.com) NaturalNews – FDA Approves First GMO Flu Vaccine Containing Reprogrammed…

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  • The social networks of happiness

    One person’s happiness goes a long way, study finds – The Boston Globe. using social networking to study the dissemination of emotional health Related articles You May Have To Choose Between A Happy Life And A Meaningful Life (businessinsider.com) An Introvert’s Guide to Happiness (everydayhealth.com) Some Things That Will Make You Happy… (ejaife.wordpress.com) Are Your…

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  • Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?

    Is ADHD An Advantage For Nomadic Tribesmen?. Related articles ADHD Symptoms In Toddlers (answers.com) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury, suicide as they enter adulthood (sciencedaily.com) Irregular sleep patterns linked to ADHD-like symptoms, says study (time4sleep.co.uk) Is there a link between ADHD and spectacular financial failures? (guardian.co.uk) Girls with ADHD more prone to self-injury,…

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