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Ask "What If?" to Boost Your Creativity
This post is part of my blog series called The Writer s Laboratory. See my introductory post for more information.
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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Stop Giving People More Stuff This Holiday—Do This Instead
The holiday season is filled with gifts and empty of what people really want. We re seeing a loneliness crisis in our society with 42.6 million adults in the U.S. suffering from it and that s including people under 45 representing a literal public health epidemic that leads to earlier death but we keep insisting on buying things, exchanging material goods as if that can somehow make up for what we ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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Why There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays
While Christmas playlists often include cheesy favorites like Rockin Around the Christmas Tree and I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, there are also a handful of wistful tracks that hit us a little bit deeper. Listen closely to I ll be Home for Christmas or White Christmas, and you ll hear a deep yearning for home and a sorrow at having to spend the holidays somewhere else. Strip away the cursory Ch ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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A Body Image Holiday Wish List
Tis the season for gift-giving and celebration, for twinkling lights and familiar songs. But for those struggling with body image , the holiday season can also be a time of body-related worries and distraction. You may wonder whether you deserve certain holiday treats or fear that those ever-present cookies and candies could trigger an episode of binge eating . Or maybe you know you ll be spending ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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Enhance Memory with the "Production" Effect
When you encounter new information and want to remember it, the formation of a memory is enormously affected by what happens immediately afterwards. The most common problem is that you think of something else, and that something else erases what you just learned from your working memory scratchpad before it has time to set up in long-term memory. The way to avoid this problem is to do something wi ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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New Study Underscores Why Fewer Toys Is the Better Option
The holidays are a time for making memories , but in many households, the holidays mean rushing to snag the must-have fad item, toy or tech gizmo on their child s wish list. Good news for parents who dread long lines and cranky crowds at the mall A new study from the University of Toledo in Ohio suggests an abundance of toys present reduced quality of toddlers play. Having fewer toys can lead a yo ...
Psychology Today - Fri. Dec 15
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Forty years after first Ebola outbreak, survivors show signs they can stave of...
Survivors of the first known Ebola outbreak, which occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, may be key to development of vaccines and therapeutic drugs to treat future outbreaks, according to a new study led by researchers at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. UCLA researchers located the 14 Ebola survivors of the 1976 outbreak who, in January 2016, were still living in th ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
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ESMO publishes new position paper on supportive and palliative care
Update to match evolving needs of cancer patients Patient centred care contributes to best use of available resources Call for increased awareness, research, education, resources for supportive and palliative care Appeal to authorities to ensure access to the best possible patient centred care LUGANO, 15 December 2017 - ESMO, the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, published a ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
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Simulation model finds Cure Violence program and targeted policing curb urban ...
When communities and police work together to deter urban violence, they can achieve better outcomes with fewer resources than when each works in isolation, a simulation model created by researchers at the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, Columbia University s Mailman School of Public Health and the University at Albany has found. The study, which published online and appears in the J ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
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Research points to second chance for rejected antibiotic candidate
An antibiotic candidate compound shelved in the 1970s in favour of more worthwhile drugs could be worth a second look, new research has found. The drug, called pentyl pantothenamide, is able to stop the growth of E. coli but not completely kill the bacteria, so was never taken into clinical use. The wider class of pantothenamides have broad spectrum activity against many bacteria but only this one ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
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Health and spirituality values influence attendance for pelvic-floor dysfuncti...
New research from psychologists and health professionals in Swansea has found that the types of life values that patients hold affect their attendance at medical treatment for pelvic-floor dysfunction, a condition affecting over 25 of all women in the UK. This condition involves incontinence and prolapse, and is treated initially by physiotherapy. Promoting key life values could be important in de ...
EurekAlert - Fri. Dec 15
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New chronic kidney disease audit published
Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships, Clinical Commissioning Groups and primary care practices must all work together to improve outcomes for patients with Chronic Kidney Disease CKD , according to the national Chronic Kidney Disease Audit published today. Recommendations include reviewing practice procedures and monitoring performance to help identify and actively manage patients with C ...
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