Mary Martin
- Could gaming enhance brain plasticity and executive functions (EFs) by fostering creativity? We identify vital benefits from further research exploring the relationship between games, brain plasticity, and creativity.
from (PDF) The light side of gaming: creativity and brain plasticity by Christiane Ganter-Argast
Gaming and
- Supportivelistening differs from other types of listening (e.g., listening during chit-chat or aconflict, informational listening) because it requires that the support listener demon-strate emotional involvement and attunement while attending to, interpreting, andresponding to the emotions of the support seeker—a complex and challenging task.
from Supportive Listening by Susanne Jones
- The study found that mindfulness helped the nurses experience fewer negative emotions and less rumination — repetitive negative thinking.
from New Research Reveals How Mindfulness Improves Your Sleep by Claire Smith
- To type "tap" your fingers don't have to trace out the form of the letters — they just make three relatively simple and uniform movements. In comparison, it takes a lot more brainpower, as well as cross-talk between brain areas, to write than type.
from As schools reconsider cursive, research homes in on handwriting's ...
- Ritualization is a potent stabilizing agent, a simple salve for a stressful time if only we are mindful of how we use its powers.
from The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual
ritual and
- ‘When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.’
from Exploring the intersection of health, mindfulness, and climate change
Mindfulness and
Thich Nhat Hanh
- it’s hard to empirically quantify intelligence because it exists only relative to our expectations – expectations that are human and, moreover, individual to particular humans.
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond
intelligence and
- We build upon the key fact that the brain is (part of) the body and as such, like any other bodily organ, the brain is made of cells. The focus on cellular rather than neural, brain processing allows us to underscore the idea that flexible responses to changes in the environments requires flexible adjustments not only through neural, but also throu... See more
from Frontiers | The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
Neuroscience and
- Despite formal recommendations (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence [NICE], 2022) and evidence supporting the effectiveness of organisational change and work redesign on improving worker well-being (Fox et al., 2022; Lovejoy et al., 2021), interventions that target the individual worker are most common.
from Employee well‐being outcomes from individual‐level mental health ... by William J. Fleming
workplace and well-being