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Why Do We Wake Up Before Getting to Our Bus or Train Stop?
Have you ever noticed how you have the uncanny ability to wake up from your nap right before getting off the bus or train stop, just in time to get to work? This is pretty similar to the phenomenon...
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Daniel Kahneman On Why We Shouldn’t Always Trust Our Gut Feelings
Have you made decisions simply based on intuition – or what people call as gut feeling? While you might have struck gold this time, you should not necessarily depend on intuition for the rest of your...
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Improve Your Brain Power Using Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
For those that are trying to figure out a scientifically verified way to improve intelligence and brain function, will be glad to know that several studies rally for the mind-improving benefits of...
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New Findings on How Chronic Stress Can Cause Mental Illnesses
This blog has written numerous times about the importance of acute stress for increased mental performance (such as here, here, and here). But once stress becomes long-term and chronic, it becomes a...
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The Physiology and Biology of Mental Toughness
I just finished the book The Hour Between Dog And Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust by neuroscientist John Coates. It is definitely a good book and I learned quite a...
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What Causes Stress? The Three Conditions That Cause Stress
In the book The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust, author John Coates talks quite a bit about the biological function of stress and what chronic...
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What Does Learning a Foreign Language Have to Do with Risk-Taking?
The benefits of learning a foreign language have been well-documented. It changes the brain, improves memory, and stalls dementia. But psychologists have found one peculiar thing learning a second...
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Artificial Blue Light Can Improve Attention and Alertness
The eye is for more than just seeing. Science believes that the eye also has a photoreceptor used to regulate our bodies. Science has known that short-wave lights (also known as blue lights)...
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Scientists Discover the Brain’s Anti-distraction System
The human brain is the most complex system ever known, capable of performing the most amazing tasks and processes. But because of how powerful it is, it is very responsive to stimuli and often gets...
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The Internet is Healthy for Aging Adults
While older adults s are often resistant to learning new things, new research has shown that it can be extremely beneficial for senior citizens to at least learn how to use the internet. Using the...
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