The Japanese Zen term 'shoshin' translates as ‘beginner’s mind’ and refers to a paradox: the more you know about a subject, the more likely you are to close your mind to further learning. Psychological research is now examining ways to foster shoshin in daily life.
New research based on four decades of longitudinal data indicates that it is rare for a person to receive and keep a single mental disorder diagnosis. Rather, experiencing different successive mental disorders appears to be the norm.
Revolutionary thinking occurs when an existing paradigm, in a state of crisis, must be reinterpreted. Thinking cannot be deliberately revolutionised, progress must emerge from stability.
Guy makes Pinkest Pink in response to Amish Kapoor's Blackest Black and then makes a blacker black and makes them both free reign. Originally posted on r/damnthatsinteresting
Trying to be happy could make you miserable, study finds. The study, carried out among students living in the UK, found those who said they valued happiness extremely highly tended to show greater signs of depression.
Baby and adult brains ‘sync up’ during play. Researchers found that during the face-to-face sessions, the babies’ brains were synchronized with the adult’s brain in several areas known to be involved in high-level understanding of the world
Eating hot peppers at least four times per week was linked to 23% reduction all-cause mortality risk (n=22,811). This study fits with others in China (n= 487,375) and the US (n=16,179) showing that capsaicin, the component in peppers that makes them hot, may reduce risk of death.
The brain derives substantial benefits from both high intensity interval training and longer, continuous bouts of moderate exercise. Findings are based on multiple experiments involving people whose brains were monitored after a single bout of aerobic exercise
The Myelin Sheath Maintains the Spatiotemporal Fidelity of Action Potentials by Eliminating the Effect of Quantum Tunneling of Potassium Ions through the Closed Channels of the Neuronal Membrane