Here’s a secret pediatric dietitians know: The healthiest eaters aren’t necessarily those who eat the most vegetables and least sugar—they’re the ones who have a good set of eating skills, or what researchers refer to as eating competence. Building eating skills isn’t just a more effective strategy for raising healthier eaters; it’s an easier, more…
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Despite attempts at working through arguments and creating a rewarding relationship, some couples still break up. However, romantic feelings can remain, especially when partners invested a lot in the relationship or ended things on good terms. Sometimes those lingering feelings motivate partners to get back together and find a way to reconcile at a later…
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In the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” a fictionalized John Nash decides to stop taking his antipsychotic medication. Within weeks, he begins to see coded messages everywhere. They alert him to a secret mission of global significance. When he finally encounters the imaginary Agent in Charge, Nash says, “I was so scared you weren’t real.” With…
Source: iStock image by Prostock-Studio licensed to Art Markman A critical function of the brain is to predict the future in order to react effectively to what happens around you. Suppose you are walking down the middle of a sidewalk and you see someone coming toward you in the opposite direction. Ideally, you would like…
By Nicole Cain, ND, MA Psychobiotics are probiotics that confer mental health benefits to the host when ingested in a particular quantity through interaction with commensal gut bacteria.1 Although psychobiotics operate through a variety of mechanisms, it is believed that the gut-brain benefits primarily result through influence on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, healthy immune and…
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In August 1971, just over 50 years ago, I became well-known globally for creating the Stanford Prison Experiment. We randomly assigned roles of guard or prisoner to our participants, male college students. The guards worked 8-hour shifts. It was just a job for them. But the prisoners lived in our simulated prison 24/7. Within a…
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Understanding 4E cognitive science Cognitive science has expanded beyond its earlier focus on formalisms and an analogy between the mind and digital computers and has witnessed the ascent of more wide-ranging conceptions of cognition. Reference to “4E” cognitive science has become a standard convention in the field. 4E cognitive science argues that the workings of…
Near-Death-Experience Source: S. Hermann & F. Richter/pixabay This post is part of a series. You can read part 1 here. “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.” -Albert Einstein In part 1 of this series, “Quantum Mind,” we learned that the mind complements matter, just as…
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Source: mrhayata/Flickr My husband and I met on my first day of college, and I joined a research lab studying marriage and the family not long after that. For nearly 20 years, I have been researching romantic relationships and trying to apply the research to my own relationship. And after nearly 20 years, I will…
learning myths Source: Regan A, R, Gurung “That was the best class ever!” “She is the best professor on campus.” “That class made waking up at noon worth it.” These are the kinds of student comments that professors (and probably their parents) would love to hear. Students often rave about satisfying learning experiences. Of course,…
