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Want to spot mistakes and fix them quickly? Perhaps take up an instrument. According to a study published in Neuropsychologia, playing an instrument has a number of positive influences on the mind, including the slowing of age-related mental problems like dementia, resilience against major mental health problems like depression, and, … Read More
Think depression is all in your head? It is . . . in the sense that the brain of someone who is depressed is genuinely neurochemically different than the brain of someone who is not. A new study conducted in the UK, published in PLOS One, has discovered that depressed … Read More
We write about sleep a lot here at DailyXY (see here, and here, and here, and here, and here), but that’s mainly because sleep has attracted a lot of scientific attention recently. Scientifically speaking, it’s weird that mammals sleep. It makes us vulnerable, we don’t need it to regular our … Read More
Are you an incorrigible night owl, walking like a zombie through the morning? Or are you an incurable morning person, in bed before midnight? The good news is that it isn’t really your fault—rather, it’s your gene’s fault. The bad news is that you can’t really change. In a study … Read More
Does your workout feel more strenuous after a long day of thinking, problem solving, and decision-making? New research suggests that it’s normal to feel more physically exhausted when you’re mentally exhausted—but your body may be fooling you. A study published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that … Read More
