Kneading your stress away: how baking can calm your brain
Baking isn’t just a holiday tradition; research shows that cooking and baking can reduce stress and improve emotional well-being. Here’s what neuroscience can tell us about why it works.
Stress
Stress
Do you make different choices when you are stressed?
We make choices all day long. But what is the effect of stress on your choices? The reward system and stress system are connected, making the advantages of a choice suddenly seem more important than the disadvantages. But what are the long-term effects of this?
Mindfulness is less helpful for combating stress in young people
For thousands of children and teenagers, September marks the return to school, and with it the associated stress. Can stress be countered with mindfulness training in youth? The findings of a large-scale project suggest that it cannot be, really.
What high sensitivity feels like for adults
Everyone is sensitive to environmental stimuli, but the degree to which we are sensitive differs between individuals. This infographic describes the latest scientific insight on what high sensitivity feels like for adults.
Aversive to touch, not to humans
We experience the world through our senses. What happens though when sensory inputs become too much (or too little) to bear from a very young age? Surely, the world must feel different, and our experience of it would change along.
New Year’s Resolutions: Friend or Foe?
The new year’s resolution is a tradition that goes back way long to when people used to make promises to gods to pay off their debts. But how about today? Is it all good or can it bring forward some challenges along with it?
Not ready to get back to normal? How to deal with social anxiety
Are you anxious about joining in social events again, or do you simply enjoy solitude?
Gaming your healing
Playing videogames can improve your well-being and may even help with recovery from trauma and other mental health challenges.
Freeze to decide
A threat! One person runs away while the other faces the fight. How do we decide what to do? Research shows that our body’s freeze reaction plays a role in these types of decisions.
Too much to sense at once
Imagine that every detail you see, hear or smell triggers your thoughts simultaneously. From every tiny inscription on the packaging to all the massive sales signs, from a nearby whisper to the distant traffic… It is all too much to sense at once: this is what sensory overload feels like.