Focus
The Science of Personality Changes
Are you the same person you were at 16? Researchers are exploring why some people do—or don’t—evolve over a lifetime.
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The Brain
Compassion
How Empathy Changes the Way We Process Music
A new study suggests that people who are highly empathic find listening to music more enjoyable.
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Focus
How to Keep Your Brain Fit as You Get Older
A new book outlines many ways to keep our cognitive skills strong and reduce the risk of dementia as we age.
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Calm
The Remarkable Brains of Long-Term Meditators
Researchers suggest that people with an advanced meditation practice might operate at a different level of awareness — and it shows in their brainwaves.
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Focus
Would You Upload Your Brain to the Cloud?
Scientists are in hot pursuit of the "the connectome"—the map of the 86-billion-neuron, 100-trillion-synapse human brain that would allow your brainware to be recreated in digital form.
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Focus
How Mindfulness Can Help Your Brain Cope with Rejection
A new study finds that rejection is less distressing to mindful people (and their brains).
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Focus
Exploring Both Sides of the Brain-Mind Debate
Scientists insist on talking about the brain while the rest of us talk about the mind. Sharon Begley sizes up the two sides of the mind/brain conversation.
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Focus
When Wandering Minds are Just Fine
While most psychologists call mind wandering a detrimental “failure of executive control," a new study suggests that it's not always harmful.
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Compassion
You Had Me at Hello
Why is it that we seem to get along with some people right off the bat? Is it just because you happen to like the same kind of music, or are there deeper reasons to find yourself on the same wavelength?
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Focus
The Magnificent, Mysterious, Wild, Connected and Interconnected Brain
Our brain is like a wild, raging electrical storm that wondrously enables us to make our way. Yet a lot of mindfulness literature makes it sound like a very simple machine. Two leading neuroscientists suggest better ways to think and talk about the brain and the mind.
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