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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/spoonful-sugar/201209/does-healthcare-have-be-boring

Does Healthcare Have to be Boring?

Here is a major and underappreciated problem with healthcare, particularly from the patient’s perspective: it’s not fun.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120914080727.htm

Pinball as a model for dealing with grief

Sep. 14, 2012 — The process of grieving can be compared to the workings of a pinball machine, where mourners' movement between different stages of grief such as shock and depression may be unpredictable, according to authors writing in September's issue of Mental Health Practice journal. Margaret Baier of Baylor University, Waco, Texas and Ruth Buechsel of Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas, say they are not trying to suggest grief is a game or downplay the experience, but that the metaphor can help people understand that grieving is not a linear process.

‘We Built It’: The Neuroscience of Success

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-winner-effect/201209/we-built-it-the-neuroscience-success

When President Barack Obama uttered the words ‘" If you've got a business -- you didn't build that, " he might as well have inserted a live electrode into the amygdalas of millions of American business people.

Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live

I got an interesting inquiry from a reader that I thought I'd post (with their permission) here, along with my (heavily revised with references added) reply. While they ask about a particular self-help guru, my answer applies to lots of approaches, not just this one, so I edited out the specifics. "I was wondering what do you think of XXXXX?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-science-self-help/201208/sounds-quackery-i-feel-it-helps-me-am-i-crazy

This sounds like quackery, but I feel like it helps me. Am I crazy!?

8 Minutes to A Longer Life

Recent research has shown that prolonged sitting time is associated with increased risk for all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, regardless of how active you are in your non-sitting time (Katzmarzyk et al 2010). These findings are disconcerting to those of us who toil away at office jobs that force us to sit for hours. Sitting time is suspected to be harmful not just because it decreases metabolism but also because of the lack of muscle activity in the lower limbs (Dunstan et al, 2012a).