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Thinking Too Much

By Ann York

It turns out that our brains can be co-conspirators in a vicious stress loop. This finding is not too surprising to any of us with an overactive cortex. I find it remarkable how some tapes insist on playing over and over in my brain despite my best efforts to hit the stop button. A... »

One thing at a time

By Ann York

You may have heard the buzz on the new book Brain Rules. Author and scientist John Medina scoured peer-reviewed brain research to distill some nuggets of knowledge palatable for the masses. One item that caught my eye was the fact that multi-tasking doesn’t work. When we think we are multi-tasking, we are merely... »