What does a year of isolation and anxiety do to a developing brain?
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Month: November 2020
Apple Watch user credits high heart rate monitoring feature with detecting irregularity
The heart monitoring features of the Apple Watch are again being credited with alerting a user to an undiagnosed condition. As 24 News reports, 25-year-old Zachary Zies was notified by his watch of a high resting heart rate at 210 beats per minute. As the report explains, Zies, a recent graduate of Ohio State University, has battled Friedreich’s ataxia for most of his life and been in a wheelchair since middle school.
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Will Holograms Help Us Grieve?
Ready or not, digital afterlives are here to stay.
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More than 2.5m people in England to get free vitamin D
Care home residents and clinically vulnerable to be offered four-month supply
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Children more willing to punish if the wrongdoer is ‘taught a lesson’
A new study finds that many children are willing to make personal sacrifices to punish wrongdoers — especially if it will teach the transgressor a lesson.
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Narcissists are more likely to make bad decisions due to their overconfidence and refusal to take advice from experts
New research published in Personality and Individual Differences suggests that grandiose narcissists are more likely to make bad decisions
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Trans people can now self-identify their gender with a few clicks as India launches revolutionary online portal
Trans people in India can now apply to have their gender identity legally recognised online through a new government portal. The portal, launched on Wednesday (25 November) by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (MSJE), will allow trans people to have their gender identity certified by the district magistrate without visiting government offices.
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Your Brain Is Not for Thinking
In stressful times, this surprising lesson from neuroscience may help to lessen your anxieties.
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Political polarization does not appear to be causing shorter Thanksgiving visits, according to new research
It is not uncommon for political tensions in the United States to boil up during Thanksgiving gatherings. Some news publications have even written guides on how to best interact with relatives with opposing political views. But new research suggests that political polarization is not cutting Thanksgiving short. The study, published in PLOS One, indicates that there is no significant difference between the duration of Thanksgiving dinners with politically-diverse attendees and the duration of dinners with politically-uniform attendees.
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There’s a revolution happening in global mental health
The global mental health movement was expected to address the inequities between high- and low-income countries. But after a little over a decade, the movement suffers from many of the same flaws it set out to tackle. Can an unlikely alliance signal an alternative pathway to real change?
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