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How Increase Intelligence?

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

physical activity

If I ask you list the benefits of physical activity you many will come to mind. Anyway including not occurs to you to say that exercise to those who practice it becomes more intelligent. However, according to a Swedish study, led by Mary Alberg of Institution of Neuroscience and Physiology, has found that young people with physical fitness score higher on intelligence tests.

According to studies conducted with rodents physical exercise improves memory and cognition. This work is the first to reveal an association between cardio respiratory endurance and improving cognitive abilities. (more…)

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Psychotherapy may help prevent obesity

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Psychotherapy

Ways to prevent obesity may be varied. All entries must be based on proper diet and exercise in practice. However, a new study says there is another alternative to avoid the evil of overweight: psychotherapy.

The authors of this study randomly assigned 38 adolescent girls to attend sessions of psychotherapy or health education classes. During a period of one year, those who conducted psychotherapy were more likely to stabilize or reduce their body mass index, a key measure to assess obesity. Therefore, a correct program of psychotherapy may work better than traditional health classes.

This program used to control the feeding of girls is based on the assumption that the binge eating occurs in response to a low social relationships and a negative mood. Therefore the main objective is to improve interpersonal relationships.

If it is demonstrated that this program could be another effective way to prevent excessive weight gain. Furthermore, it could be an alternative when it comes to stopping the development of other health-related disorders to a group capable of youths.

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Psychoanalytic Therapy

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

In the late nineteenth century, Freud, the Viennese neurologist made a major discovery in listening to what he trusted his patients. He understood the role of our unconscious and conflicts taking place from our childhood in our future existential, but also in the formation of symptoms of various mental illnesses. This discovery enabled him to develop a method of exploration and especially resolution of these conflicts: the psychoanalytic cure.

This method of solving conflicts and psychological resistance, with an expression totally liberated.

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