AvatarKrista AnneCan you live a normal life with half a brain?verified_publisherBBC Future - Tom StaffordA few extreme cases show that people can be missing large chunks of their brains with no significant ill-effect – how can this happen?
AvatarKrista Anne9 Surprising Ways Your Body Can Influence Your MindHarper's BAZAAR - Alice HaddonMost of us are aware that a positive attitude can improve health and speed recovery from illness, but does this also work the other way around? 'Embodied cognition' is a term used by psychologists to describe how the way we move affects the way we think and feel. An early study in this fascinating …
AvatarKrista AnneWhen my son realized that women do not do all the things men doverified_publisherThe Washington Post - Hana SchankMy son looked at me expectantly, waiting for an answer to what he obviously thought was a simple question. We were watching the Mets game on TV – he’d started playing Little League a few weeks earlier. I stared at the television, trying to come up with an answer that would be appropriate for an 8 …
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AvatarKrista AnneOpinion | There Is No ‘Healthy’ Microbiome (Published 2014)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Ed YongLONDON — IN the late 17th century, the Dutch naturalist Anton van Leeuwenhoek looked at his own dental plaque through a microscope and saw a world of tiny cells “very prettily a-moving.” He could not have predicted that a few centuries later, the trillions of microbes that share our lives — …
