Tag: Mental Health
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How to improve your memory: 10 easy, enjoyable expert tips – from reading a book to getting more sleep | Ageing | The Guardian
“The best way to improve your memory is to keep your brain active by learning new things and engaging in cognitively stimulating activities,” says Barbara Sahakian, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. “Find something that you would enjoy, but haven’t tried yet,” she says, suggesting chess, a new language or instrument. In…
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‘The term is becoming unrecognisable’: have the experts who believed in a single autism spectrum changed their minds? | Autism | The Guardian
Autism, Wing said, ran “from the most profoundly physically and mentally retarded person … to the most able, highly intelligent person with social impairment in its subtlest form”. But what unified everyone on the spectrum was what she and Gould called the “Triad of Impairments”: problems with social skills, reciprocal (ie give-and-take) language and “social…
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Could our preoccupation with mental health be part of the problem? – Marginal REVOLUTION
In some ways, encouraging people to think and talk more about their mental health is a good thing. There is now less stigma around mental illness, and more people who can benefit from professional help are getting it. But there is also reason to believe that efforts to bring attention to mental health struggles are…