Take a Vacation – You and Your Brain Might Need It!

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I love to travel, and I somehow manage to squeeze in a lot more trips than most people I know. So when I see hard and fast research supporting the health benefits of vacation, it really piques my interest. I recently read a somewhat unscientific article that talked about why vacation is good for your [...]

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Posted June 2, 2011 by Karen Merzenich under Odds and Ends, Research studies

Pick Paint Colors Carefully – It May Affect Your Cognition and Creativity

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I was recently reading an article about the psychology of architecture on one of my favorite neuroscience blogs, The Frontal Cortex by Jonah Lehrer. I was particularly drawn to his mention of a study conducted in 2009 by Ravi Mehta and Rui Zhu that compared people’s performance on different types of tasks whether they were [...]

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Posted May 19, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Unconstrain Your Brain

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I’m always looking for another justification for going on vacation and leaving work behind. Fortunately, Jonah Lehrer, a fabulous science writer, has just given me another one: while away from the office in body and mind I’m more likely to solve difficult work-related problems. As Lehrer explains: “[P]erceptions of distance (and the distance can be [...]

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Posted January 12, 2011 by Marghi Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies

Stress Is Very Bad For Your Health- Whether You’re a Human or a Baboon

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This weekend, I read a fascinating article in Wired magazine about stress and your health. (The article isn’t online yet, but the author of the article, Jonah Lehrer, has pieces of the article on his blog.) {UPDATE: the article is posted on the Wired website now.} Lehrer talked to primatologist Robert Sapolsky about stress in [...]

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Posted July 26, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies