Mary Martin
@marymartin
awareness, imagination, futures thinking, and hope.
Mary Martin
marymartinphd.com
A new study, published in Biological Psychiatry, has revealed that mindfulness meditation engages distinct brain mechanisms to reduce pain compared to those of the placebo response.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-brain-scans-reveal-mindfulness-meditation.html
Mindfulness and
Finally, we find that replacing foods with less processed alternatives can significantly reduce the health implications of ultra-processed food, suggesting that access to information on the degree of processing, currently unavailable to consumers, could improve population health.
Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing - PubMed
Spines Targets 8,000 AI-Generated Books by 2025, Sparking Debate In The Publishing Industry
timesnownews.com
publishing and AI
cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain.
The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
cognition and
Ultimately, shifting the focus from neural to cellular processing invites us to reconsider the received idea that cognitive processes can be linked solely to the neural system, and that the brain is somehow the natural home of mental states.
There are some gifts, by the way, that you do not have to pay for. Gifts that come at no cost. Gifts that do not require wrapping paper. Gifts that do not contribute to climate change. Gifts that can help bring peace and harmony to the world.
Here are 3:
Here are 3:
- The Gift of a Smile.
- The Gift of Listening.
- The Gift of Gratitude.
Damian Bacchoo • The Three Gift Rule
gift economy and
Embodied CLA: The Role of Polyvagal Theory in Futures Methodology – A Conversation with Sohail Inayatullah and Debra Em Wilson * Journal of Futures Studies
jfsdigital.org
Futures thinking and
vagus nerve and imagination
Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing
Machine learning prediction of the degree of food processing - Nature Communications
New research sheds light on the connection between mindfulness and reduced relationship conflict
Eric W. Dolanpsypost.org
Mindfulness Research and conferencing
reduced relationship conflict
reading habit may be one of the useful strategies for protecting mental health via increasing self-compassion, particularly in people with depressive temperament.
https://www.academia.edu/2997-9196/1/1/10.20935/MHealthWellB6176
who knew? and