July brain news, from Lumosity

Curious about the latest news on the brain? Stay up to date and learn something new from these stories.

Monthly Brain News July 2016 Edition Curious about the latest news on the brain? Stay up to date and learn something new from these stories.

TIME Why Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others New research from the Yale Stress Center examines why some people are more resilient than others in response to stress. Researchers studied fMRI scans of brain activity in response to either stressful or neutral images. Participants who showed more neuroplasticity and neuroflexibility in the ventral medial prefrontal cortex, an area associated with emotion regulation, demonstrated greater resilience. THE NEW YORKER A Better Kind of Happiness Recently, scientists have explored the fascinating idea that different types of happiness may affect how the genome functions. Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson found "that people high in eudaemonic happiness" — Aristotle's theory of happiness as a practice — show decreased inflammation and improved antiviral responses. NY TIMES WELL BLOG Why Handwriting Is Still Essential in the Keyboard Age Should children in our increasingly digital world learn old-fashioned handwriting? Perri Klass, M.D. points out the growing body of research on how writing by hand can change brain function and development. Research suggests that for young children, typing on a keyboard doesn't seem to activate the brain in the same way that handwriting does.

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