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How walking through a doorway increases forgetting

How walking through a doorway increases forgetting
Like information in a book, unfolding events are stored in human memory in successive chapters or episodes. One consequence is that information in the current episode is easier to recall than information in a previous episode. An obvious question then is how the mind divides experience up into these discrete episodes? A new study led by Gabriel Radvansky shows that the simple act of walking through a doorway creates a new memory episode, thereby making it more difficult to recall information pertaining to an experience in the room that's just been left behind. Dozens of participants used computer keys to navigate through a virtual reality environment presented on a TV screen. The virtual world contained 55 rooms, some large, some small. The key finding is that memory performance was poorer after travelling through an open doorway, compared with covering the same distance within the same room. But what if this result was only found because of the simplistic virtual reality environment? Related:  Psychodocs E

Are You a “Pre-crastinator”? The views expressed are those of the author and are not necessarily those of Scientific American. Each of us, at times, can be a procrastinator, putting off something that is hard to do or that we don’t want to do. But three researchers at Pennsylvania State University think we humans may also be precrastinators—hurrying to get something done so we can cross it off our mental to-do list, even if the rush ends up being wasteful. The researchers also claim to have coined the term “precrastination.” Psychology professor David Rosenbaum and his two collaborators reached their conclusion after asking 257 students to complete a bucket challenge. Almost all of the students chose the bucket that was closer to them—meaning, farther from the end of the alley, requiring more physical work to complete the task. Rosenbaum actually designed the experiment to investigate aspects of walking and reaching; he is an expert in human perception and motor control.

The Human Brain - Relieve Stress Exercise not only defuses a stressful situation, it better prepares you to cope with future stress and helps to fight depression . The World Health Organization warns that by the year 2020, depression will be the second leading cause of death and disability in the world – primarily due to more stressful lifestyles, poverty, and violence. When University of California at San Diego researchers kept track of more than 900 older adults whose average age was 70, they found that those who exercised regularly had the best moods a decade later. One of the study's authors, Dr. Perfectionism, Procrastination, and Distress | Psychology Today Excessive concerns about making mistakes, pernicious self-doubt, harsh self-criticism, impossibly high standards or expectations for performance, a strong and chronic tendency to evaluate one’s performance as not measuring up to levels expected by oneself or others - these are features of maladaptive perfectionism that predict psychological distress. In a longitudinal study across the semester of a sample of predominantly female undergraduate students, Kenneth Rice, Clarissa Richardson, and Dustin Clark from the University of Florida examined the relations between measures of perfectionism, procrastination, and psychological distress. They explored a number of different potential models that might explain the relation among these variables, with a particular emphasis on a model where perfectionism leads to more procrastination that increases psychological distress. Interestingly, this isn’t what they found. Perfectionism and Procrastination Results Implications The authors write, References

LBD Medical Alert Wallet Card | Lewy Body Dementia Association Click here to download a PDF of LBDA's Medical Alert Wallet Card. This Medical Alert Wallet Card has been developed to help you quickly inform Emergency Room medical professionals of important medication sensitivites in LBD. Present this card any time you are hospitalized, require emergency medical care, or meet with a new physician for the first time. To request a printed copy, please send a self-addressed, stamped envelope with first class postage along with your request to LBDA, 912 Killian Hill Road SW, Suite 202C, Atlanta, GA 30047. For multiple copies, click here. The card contains the following message to physicians: Emergency Treatment of Psychosis in LBD Psychotic symptoms such as visual hallucinations of people or animals, or misidentifying one’s spouse or one’s home are common in LBD. 1. 2. 3. 4. A more comprehensive physician’s guide to treating behavioral disturbances in LBD patients can be found at www.lbda.org/go/ER.

PsyPost - Psychology news, neuroscience news, and more We are Wired to Respond to Cannabis CANNABIS Cures Cancer… and Everything Else… …which is the real reason it’s illegal! How cannabis works “Cannabinoids” is a blanket term covering a family of complex chemicals (both natural and man-made) that lock on to cannabinoid receptors—protein molecules on the surface of cells. Humans have been using cannabis plants for medicinal and recreational purposes for thousands of years, but cannabinoids themselves were first purified from cannabis plants in the 1940s. “We’re all born with a form of cannabis already in our bodies. The CB1 and CB2 receptors We have two different types of cannabinoid receptor, CB1 and CB2, which are found in different locations and do different things. The Endocannabinoid System Also: Cannabis Cures Cancer! MORE AND MORE we are beginning to understand that marijuana is far more than a street-level ‘drug’. One of the latest methods of reaping its benefits is juicing, as one woman learned the hard way. 1Czbe1ty2UQNHYxvpJqfJEdeaL2cYmzc5T

The Effects Of Emotional Abuse & How To Heal Them - mindbodygreen Insomnia, appetite changes, constant fear, a sense of doom, and hopelessness: self-destruct mode. This is your body saying "no more." Your patchwork — the above four solutions — aren't working anymore, and your body is going to torture your mind until you surrender to the only permanent solution: love. You should seek professional therapy for anxiety and depression, but I would highly recommend that all emotional abuse survivors approach therapy from the perspective of love rather than constant analysis of your undesirable behaviors. After emotional abuse, there are so many lies obstructing the heart: not enough, inadequate, worthless, bad, broken, replaceable, unlovable, my fault. Related reads:

Serum Nutritional Biomarkers and Their Associations with Sleep among US Adults in Recent National Surveys Half of Your Friends Aren’t Actually Your Friend -- Science of Us Here’s a fun exercise: Take a minute and count up all your friends. Not just the close ones, or the ones you’ve seen recently — I mean every single person on this Earth that you consider a pal. Got a number in your mind? Good. Now cut it in half. Okay, yes, “fun” may have been a bit of a reach there. The study authors gave a survey to 84 college students in the same class, asking each one to rate every other person in the study on a scale of zero (“I do not know this person”) to five (“One of my best friends”), with three as the minimum score needed to qualify for friendship. Overall, the researchers documented 1,353 cases of friendship, meaning instances where one person rated another as a three or higher. Which makes sense — you probably wouldn’t call someone a friend, after all, unless you thought that definition was mutual.

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