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 [...]
Best Food for Healthy Mind Food for Healthy Mind: A popular meme tells us we are made of stardust. Well, so is the food we eat, and we are, at the end of the day, made from the molecules we get from what we eat. If you were a computer programmer, you would say that [...]
A Healthy Mind Lives in a Healthy Body A healthy mind: It’s the 21st century and the modern world offers so many tempting opportunities to sit and do nothing physically. Television, video games, surfing the web, and listening to music take up about seven hours of time a day for an average student. While this [...]
