mental health

Job Description of the Brain

Or, an explanation to why, when your nerve system is out of balance, you’re mad at the world and downright impatient; you’re hungry all of the time; your libido is

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Healthy Kids are Smart Kids

American kids are under tremendous pressure to perform well in school. Every year they’re required to take more and more standardized tests, and every year they fall further behind children

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Life Lessons to Unlearn

1. Problems are bad You spent your school years solving arbitrary problems imposed by boring authority figures. You learned that problems — comment se dit? — suck. But people without

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Insomnia Facts

Sleeping poorly for less than six hours increases the risk of dying from heart disease by almost 50%, and the risk of dying from a stroke by 15%. The amygdala

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