Transcendental Meditation for treating Post-traumatic stress disorder

A study funded by the Department of Defense, US Army Medical Research and done at the Department of Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System found that Transcendental Meditation works as an alternative for those who do not want to receive or do not respond to exposure-based treatments for Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

What to use instead of willpower to be more productive, according to neuroscience

A long article from medium.com goes over how the primitive part of our brain sabotages delayed gratification and how to program our brain using IF-THEN statements to stop that sabotage.

Near Death Experience discussion on television

Expedition Unknown on the Discovery Channel is currently having a series called "Search for the Afterlife", with the "Heaven and Hell" and "After the Search: Talking with the Dead" episodes having some discussion about Near Death Experiences.  Definitely recommended watching!

Heat and the brain

Do you feel like your brain is not with it in the summer heat?  The Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment at Harvard University has found that our brains are susceptible to temperature abnormalities.  All the more reason to stay cool.

Buddhist meditation used in Thai cave soccer team ordeal

According to Vox, the soccer team's coach taught them to meditate to help them keep calm and preserve their energy during their two-week ordeal.

You really are on the same wavelength with your friends

Researchers from UCLA and Dartmouth College are able to have a computer program determine with 48% accuracy friendships between two people based on neural similarities.  Accuracies of identifying a friend of a friend were at 39%, friend of a friend of a friend at 31%, and friendships further removed than that at 47%.  When the program was wrong, it was usually only off by one category.