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The Importance of Rest-Slow Down
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?
One of the biggest misconceptions people have about happiness is a really interesting concept called hedonic adaptation. Have you ever had a situation when you had a certain goal?
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Object Constancy: How Our Emotions Relate To Object Permanence
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 mental representation (i.e.…
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Your Gut Microbes Affect Your Brain
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. This collection of microorganisms is called the…
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Alzheimer’s disease: Presentation, Symptoms, Pathology, and Diagnosis
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, symptoms first appear…
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How stress and depression affect the immune system
We’re going to look at how depression (major depressive disorder) and stress can affect the immune system, how the immune system can impact a person's mental health and increase the risk for having…
