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A growing number of studies show just how damaging the pandemic has been on the mental health of people around the world. By some estimates, approximately one in four people are experiencing clinical levels of anxiety and up to half of all people are experiencing symptoms related to depression.  … [Read more...] about 6 Coping Strategies to Ease Your Pandemic Anxiety

Sleep and social jet lag: Many of us typically sleep less on weekdays than on weekends, when we may stay up later but don’t need an alarm clock, and can ‘sleep in’. The pattern, then, can be to become progressively sleep deprived during the workweek, and try to pay back this sleep debt, with slightly different timing, on the weekend. Till Roenneberg at the University of Munich coined the term ‘social jet lag’ for when this disparity becomes significant, and suggested that it might occur in two-thirds of the population (1). In a sense, it is as if a person flies from Paris to New York on Friday evenings, and returns on Monday. The repercussions from living out of phase with the environment are only beginning to be understood. One consequence of social jet lag—which involves both issues and timing and amount of sleep—can be an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. It is also associated with smoking and mood changes, as well as increased … [Read more...] about Sleep and circadian rhythms during the COVID-19 lockdown

When a baseball player is up to bat and needs to make a split-second decision about whether "to swing, or not to swing" at an unpredictable curveball, there isn't enough time for intellectual or cerebral decision-making. Therefore, pro ball players inadvertently train their "little brain" to automatically make go/no-go decisions through lots of practice, practice, practice—which encodes trial-and-error associative learning. … [Read more...] about How the Cerebellum Optimizes Split-Second Decision Making