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Virtual reality for pain management

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A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of healthy patients using VR while exposed to a painful stimulus (thermal foot pain simulator) demonstrated a more than 50% reduction in pain-related brain activity in 5 brain areas (Hoffman et al., 2009; Malloy and Milling, 2010; Chan et al., 2018; Billot and al.,

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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience

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This is the subject of one of the chapters in “Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience” by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience. But in a way, the same can be said of our brains.

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The Psychology and Neuroscience of the Underdog Effect: Why We’re all Leicester City Football Fans!

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Soccer”) team clinched the 2016 Premier League Championship title. This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain is hard-wired for survival , an observation made by John Medina and others. Your brain wants to keep you alive above all else; an attractive next-best option is to keep other members of the species alive.

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#TeamCDSMRun are back …

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#TeamCDSMRun are back, fresh and ready to take on the IAAF/Cardiff University World Half Marathon Championships Cardiff 2016 this Saturday. The first IAAF World Half Marathon Championships to take place in the United Kingdom since 2009, the 2016 event will take place in Cardiff this Saturday 26 th March 2016.

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“Everyone Loves a Winner” – Except When We Don’t

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This tendency seems to validate the statement that our brain is hard-wired for survival , an observation made by John Medina and others. Your brain wants to keep you alive above all else; an attractive next-best option is to keep other members of the species alive. But human behavior is rarely that straight forward.

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Is Your Lesson Like the Sinking Titanic? - Tip #131

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Warning: brain overload. June 9, 2009 Jacquelyn Smith, Business Insider. February 14, 2016 Lisa Morgan. Shocking statistics and interactive, well-designed and understandable data visualization are some of the effective approaches. References John Naish. Financial Post. July 7, 2014 Are you Interpreting eLearning Data Correctly?

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Cognitive Tunnelling: How to Achieve Focus Through Stories

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In worst-case scenarios, failure of attention can lead to death as was the case of Air France Flight 447 which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. Cognitive Tunneling When things are automated, our brains don’t have to monitor our environment. Wired Magazine, July/Aug 2016 issue. LifeHacker.com, March 16, 2016.