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Texas Professor May Have Found Solutions for Overeating by Anjanee Sharma on  February 14, 2021 at 4:09 PM These discoveries could lead to a way to inhibit the desire to overeat. Iniguez, who helped design novel experimental techniques for the research, explains that when people are exposed to cues or triggers that remind them of treats, they tend to overeat. This is also one reason why people opt for dessert even after a filling meal. The study discovered that neurons in a specific part of the prefrontal cortex control the link between the cue and the action. They also fo...

Study examines how memory is impacted by pain experienced in everyday life ANI | Updated: Feb 07, 2021 15:32 IST Washington [US], February 7 (ANI): Researchers during a recent study have found that reduced working memory ability and increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex are linked to higher pain intensity in daily life. The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Neuropsychologia'. Prior research suggested that pain-related impairments in working memory depend on an individual's level of emotional distress. Yet the specific...

Meditation: Your antidote to suffering Philosophers and religions have warned against the peril of being a slave to your thoughts By Updated Monday Dec 21 2020 “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone”- Blaise Pascal Humor me with a thought experiment. Imagine that you have a roommate that is constantly in your ear, talking non-stop, from the time that you rise from sleep and, in every waking moment, thereafter as you go about your day. Imagine that your roommate assaults you with incessant monologues on how your day is going to be horribl...

>> back then you could say he had money to lose but there was always money to fall back on. now he has the presidency, a place that maybe he thought deep down he would get to but nobody expected him to. how is that affecting the judgment you once knew so well? >> it's physiological first. when you are under stress, you move into this fight or flight state and your prefrontal cortex, your thinking mind shuts down and you become reactive and impulsive. you're about your survival. so you don't think well. trump starts off as you know, not thinking well, he's not reflective, not introspective. he ...

Joining us now here on set is tony schwartz. tony, it's really good to see. >> you likewise. >> so donald trump, 2018, is it the same man you knew? >> in the fundamental ways, yes. he actually has changed and he's gotten worse, i mean, considerably worse. he was a nonideological guy. he was purely out for himself and not thinking about the wider world that much. and he was riding high. in the '80s just before it all fell apart, so he wasn't under stress. and we are two different people. we're the person we are when we're being run by our prefrontal cortex and under stress we're run by a much m...