Health Care | Quantum Activist

Welcome to Quantum Activist

How meditating may help your brain

November 21, 2011 / 3 Comments

When you’re under pressure from work and family and the emails don’t stop coming, it’s hard to stop your mind from jumping all over the place. But scientists are finding that it may be worth it to train your brain to focus on something as simple as your breath, which...

Posted in Featured, Health Care, Philosophy
Embodied Emotion Perception

April 26, 2011 / Leave a comment

Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotion Perception Accuracy Abstract How do we recognize the emotions other people are feeling? One source of information may be facial feedback signals generated when we automatically mimic the expressions displayed on others’ faces. Supporting this “embodied emotion perception,” dampening (Experiment 1) and amplifying...

Posted in Health Care, Quantum Doctor
Don’t panic — meditation can help

April 18, 2011 / 2 Comments

By focusing on breathing, you can wake up from the anxieties of everyday life.

Posted in Health Care, Quantum Doctor, Thoughts
Study: Adults with ADHD are more creative

April 11, 2011 / 7 Comments

Adults with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder may have trouble balancing their checkbook, but are more creative, U.S. researchers say. Holly White of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Fla., and Priti Shah of the University of Michigan gave 60 college students — half of them with ADHD — a series of tests...

Posted in Conflict, Creativity, Health Care, Post Materialist Science, Quantum Doctor, Thoughts
Meditation can reduce pain: study

April 6, 2011 / 1 Comment

Meditation can have pain relieving effects, according a study released in the Journal of Neuroscience Wednesday. For the study, researchers mildly burned 15 men and women in a lab on two separate occasions, before and after the volunteers attended four 20-minute meditation training sessions over the course of four days. During...

Posted in Creativity, Health Care, News, Post Materialist Science, Thoughts
The surprising power of the placebo

April 5, 2011 / 1 Comment

The Germans are happier than we are. The average German also enjoys better health and lives longer than the average American, all of which raise the possibility that their medical system is better than ours. One has to keep this in mind when evaluating a recent move by the German...

Posted in Health Care, Quantum Doctor, Updates