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Article: What Happens When You Stop Eating All Sugar
Within one week, you can expect lower blood pressure and healthier fat and insulin levels in your bloodstream.
#body
#brain
#carbohydrates
#glucose
#insulin
#liver
#sugar
Article: An Effortless Way to Improve Your Memory
Your memory retains more if you spend 10 to 15 minutes doing nothing instead of doing something productive after studying. Pacing your studies with minimal interferences during these breaks helps the process of memory consolidation.
#alzheimer-s-disease
#brain
#learning
#memory
#sleep
Thalamus
It has several functions, such as relaying sensory signals, including motor signals to the cerebral cortex and regulating consciousness, sleep, and alertness.
#biology
#brain
Distributed Cognition
It's a process of getting things out of your head and into objective, and reviewable format.
#brain
#brainstorming
#mind
Mental Models
Mental models are frameworks, worldviews, representations, or explanations of how something works. They're how we understand the world.
#biology
#brain
#chemistry
#decision-making
#economics
#mental-models
#physics
#psychology
Dopamine
It's known as the "feel-good" neurotransmitter.
#brain
#dopamine
#neurotransmitter
Human Multitasking
Multitasking is the "ability" to perform more than one task or activity at the same time.
#brain
#context-switching
#multisensory
#multitasking
#productivity
Psychological Trigger
Psychological triggers are the stimulus that creates a reaction in a brain and/or body without he/she notices.
#brain
#psychological-trigger
#psychological-triggers
#psychology
Metaphors to Explain the Brain
We don't know how our brains work, so we use metaphors to understand it.
#brain
#computing
#hermann-von-helmholtz
#humours
#hydraulic-engineering
#information-processing-metaphor
#memory
#telegraph
#thomas-hobbes
The Evolution of Anxiety
The Delayed Return Environment causes chronic anxiety and stress because our brain was designed to live in an Immediate Return Environment.
#anxiety
#brain
#delayed-return-environment
#emotions
#human-behavior
#immediate-return-environment
#psychology
#stress