Fwd: 10 Ways That Running Changes Your Mind and Brain

What about those who can't run?  First, this blogger says be sure you really can't.  I know that some really definitely cannot.  But some, like me, can run in a fashion but it is slow enough to be hard to tell it is running. Still, it is an appropriate stress on the body and good for all systems in the body.  Second, if you can't run but you want to, IMAGINE running.  My "Outsmart Yourself" guy and many other sources, observers and scientists advise deliberately imagining as much of the running experience (or anything else you want to work on or do).  Many parts of your brain and body work in much the same way with imagining as with the "real" thing.

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Share on   Forward to a friend View this email in your browser CPD Events: IAPT: Improving Psychological Therapies for Older People opening address from Ursula James. Medically Unexplained Symptoms /Somatic Symptom Disorder National Summit 2017. Special rate £250 +vat with code hcuk250bps About this email Every week we bring you engaging reports on the latest psychology research. Anyone can subscribe free. We also provide daily updates on the latest psychology research via our app and on: Twitter Facebook Google Plus Tumblr Issue Number: 358 Editor Dr Christian Jarrett Reach over 43,000+ subscribers by placing your banner in this space. 10 Ways That Running Changes Your Mind and Brain "One 60-minute run can add 7 hours to your life" claimed The Times last week. The story was based on a new review in Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases that concluded that runners live, on average, three years longer than non-runners and that running will do more for your longevity than any other form of exercise. But there's more to running than its health-enhancing effects. Research published in recent years has shown that donning your trainers and pounding the hills or pavements changes your brain and mind in some intriguing ways, from increasing connectivity between key functional hubs, to helping you regulate your emotions. The precise effects sometimes vary according to whether you engage in intense sprints or long-distance running. Here we provide a handy digest of the ways that running changes your mind and brain. Continue reading → Introducing the Invisibility Cloak Illusion: We think we're more observant (and less observed) than everyone else Most of us tend to think we're better than average: more competent, honest, talented and compassionate. 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However, whenever there is disquiet brought about by uncertainty, self-titled experts come out of the woodwork. Discussion of factors increasing the risk of cancer is today not only the domain of medical doctors and psycho-oncologists, but is also engaged in by some alternative medicine proponents, pseudopsychologists, and fringe psychotherapists, whose opinions are disseminated by journalists, some more thorough than others. Continue reading → How much are readers misled by headlines that imply correlational findings are causal? What do you take from this hypothetical headline: "Reading the Research Digest blog is associated with higher intelligence"? How about this one: "Reading this blog might increase your intelligence"? According to science writing guides like HealthNewsReview.org, taking the first correlational finding from a peer-reviewed article and reporting it for the public using the second wording, implying causation, is a sin of exaggeration, making a relationship appear more causal than the evidence suggests. However, the authors of a new a paper in Journal of Experimental Psychology wondered whether readers interpret these kind of headlines literally, or whether they draw their own conclusions. Their findings suggest that while science writers need to pick up their game, science-writing guides also have some catching up to do.  Continue reading → It can backfire when doctors make a show of their own healthy living Doctors who want to avoid accusations of hypocrisy should keep themselves in reasonable shape if they intend to advise their patients to do the same. 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