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Last month I wrote about the dangers of prolonged sitting.  Many readers have questioned how to most effectively counter this trend, given the demanding desk work that many people engage in, and [...]

Small things can make a big difference.  Like a mosquito in the room when you’re trying to fall asleep.  Or a reassuring word by a friend.  Or a smile from a stranger.  Or standing up and moving [...]

It’s Brain Awareness Week, a global campaign aimed at increasing public knowledge about the benefits of brain research. Brain specialist Dr Helena Popovic is in New Zealand to support the [...]

According to a Jenkins Group survey, 42% of American college graduates will never read another book – and the ones who are reading books, choose bestsellers from the last 10 years along with [...]

Juggling has been shown to expand the size of the brain. A German study published in the journal, Nature, examined 24 people, half of whom were were randomly assigned to learn and practise [...]

Dr Ellen Langer, a professor of psychology at Harvard University, conducted research to explore whether cultural attitudes and stereotypes about old age can contribute to physical decline.  [...]

4BC Mornings: Dr Helena Popovic is a medical doctor and author of In Search of My Father. She speaks to Greg about what she discovered while caring for her father with dementia. She says we can [...]

Several times throughout each day, empty your mind and switch off your thinking. How?  Didn’t Descartes say, “I think, therefore I am”?  He did.  But he wasn’t entirely correct.  We [...]

Every year during the last two weeks in April I avidly attend the German Film Festival which takes place in most capital cities throughout Australia.  Several years ago, I lived in Germany for [...]

Our focus acts as both a magnifying glass and a magnet. In other words, whatever we put our attention on, expands in our life. Whatever we talk about, we see more of. Whatever we think about, we [...]