Managing Stress for Teenagers Stress can't be avoided when you are in your teens. With the common pressures of school, friends, relationships and extracurricular activities, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and stressed out. Fortunately, there are many ways to effectively manage stress and lead a healthy, balanced life. In order to manage stress it [...]
Sleep Helps Depression and Anxiety How sleep helps: It has been known for a while that sleep is important for learning and long-term memory formation. What is less clear is how exactly this works. Despite much research, this is an issue that was only imperfectly understood. Now it seems that new neuroscientific research may have [...]
Mindfulness Can Help to Prevent Depression Mindfulness has its critics. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy or MBCT was first developed by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. MBCT has been embraced by hundreds of thousands of people around the world, but some people are unconvinced. However, a new study published in the journal [...]
Neuromagic - Deceptology Explores Neuromagic: We all know the mind can play tricks on us. But how? Australian magician Nicholas J. Johnson’s new show Deceptology explores what’s known as neuromagic — a field of study that explores why our brains are fooled by magic tricks. Johnson’s interest in neuroscience dates back to 2009 when he [...]
