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Finding Your Selfish Space
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Do you take the time to actually find a quiet space in your head? When you are only thinking about YOU. Does this sound selfish? This is exactly how I…
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The Importance of Rest-Slow Down
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In today’s world where hustling is all the rage, having rest and specifically sleep is often undermined in both its value and importance.
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Happiness and Hedonic Adaptation-Why is Happiness So Difficult to Achieve?
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One of the biggest misconceptions people have about happiness is a really interesting concept called hedonic adaptation.
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Object Constancy: How Our Emotions Relate To Object Permanence
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Object constancy is an idea related to object permanence. Object permanence means knowing that an object still exists, even if it is hidden. It requires the ability to form a…
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Your Gut Microbes Affect Your Brain
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Your gut and your brain talk to each other. When the gut talks, the brain listens. Your intestinal tract has about 39 trillion microorganisms in it. Around 500 or more…
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Alzheimer’s disease: Presentation, Symptoms, Pathology, and Diagnosis
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Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills, and, eventually, the ability to carry out the simplest tasks. In most people with Alzheimer’s,…
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How stress and depression affect the immune system
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In this post, we’re going to take a look at psychoneuroimmunology and depression (major depressive disorder). We’re going to look at how depression (major depressive disorder) and stress can affect…