Here are a few articles of interest for today: meditation helps increase attention span “The research was inspired by work on Buddhist monks, who spend years training in meditation. “You wonder if the mental skills, the calmness, the peace that they express, if those things are a result of their Read more…
obesity harms women’s memory “…first in the United States to link obesity to poorer memory and brain function in women and to identify the body-shape connection.” can we trick our minds?? “…Test subjects were more satisfied for longer periods of time after consuming varying quantities of food for which they Read more…
Here are a few stories that look interesting: Larger head size may protect from alzheimers “New research shows that people with Alzheimer’s disease who have large heads have better memory and thinking skills than those with the disease who have smaller heads, even when they have the same amount of Read more…
Looks like we’ll have a nice crop of Concord Grapes here in San Luis Obispo, California! Here are a few of the stories I am following today: antidepressants make shrimp see the light “Research into the behaviour of shrimps exposed to the antidepressant fluoxetine, showed that their behaviour is dramatically Read more…
My daughter Karen used this nice picture of us at the APS convention on her blog today. I felt I could borrow it! Here are a few of the more interesting things I have read recently: Jasmine as Valium substitute? “…have discovered that the two fragrances Vertacetal-coeur (VC) and the Read more…