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Daily Mental Training Reduces Chronic Stress, New Study Shows
New research by scientists from Germany and the United Kingdom shows that daily mental training for 3 to 6 months can buffer the long-term systemic stress load of healthy adults.
Hair Samples Show Meditation Training Reduces Long-Term Stress
Many people claim meditation helps to relieve their daily stresses. A new study provides objective evidence which supports the claims. Researchers found cortisol levels from hair samples decreased by ...
Hair analysis shows: Meditation training reduces long-term stress
Mental training that promotes skills such as mindfulness, gratitude or compassion reduces the concentration of the stress hormone cortisol in hair. This is what scientists from the Max Planck Society ...
Meditation training reduces long-term stress, according to hair analysis
This is what scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig and the Social Neuroscience Research Group of the Max Planck Society in Berlin have found out.
Late persistence of human ancestors at the margins of the monsoon in India
New research led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has re-examined a key Acheulean site at the margins of the monsoon zone in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, revealing the ...

Laboratory Animal Sciences
LabRoots' two-day international Laboratory Animal Science (LAS) virtual conference, that took place on February 3rd and 4th, 2016, is now On Demand. This is the premier online-only Free conference ...
How the world’s biggest brain maps could transform neuroscience
The European Commission and its partner organizations have spent €607 million ($703 million) on the Human Brain ... a director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt ...
Late persistence of human ancestors at the margins of the monsoon in India
New research led by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History has re-examined ... were not available at the time of their discovery. Since then, a range of sites have been examined ...
4 Ways Trusting Your Intuition Is A Superpower
According to World Economic Forum, “intuitions occur when your brain has made a significant match or mismatch (between the cognitive ... of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in ...
"Human Brains: Conversations", an online project dedicated to brains studies and presented by Fondazione Prada
Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) and Robert C. Berwick (MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA) Live: 30.09.2021, 7 pm (CEST ...