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When jazz musicians let their creativity flow and start to improvise melodies, they use parts of their brains typically associated with spoken language — specifically, regions that help people interpret syntax or the structure of sentences, according to a new study. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Medicine in Baltimore tracked brain activity as …

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Hundreds of families in Geel take in psychiatric patients; people who suffer from schizophrenia, from obsessive compulsive disorder, serious mental illnesses. About half of “the boarders” as they are known, also have what is described as “a mild mental handicap.” Families in Geel have been looking after mentally ill people for centuries. When the numbers …

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Cayden Taipalus, 8, came home from Challenger Elementary School feeling really upset after witnessing a friend foregoing a hot lunch because of a negative lunch account balance. As an alternative, the school provided his friend with just a cheese sandwich. The third grader sat down with his mom and came up with a plan to …

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AlterNet / By Michael Bader 9 Blind Spots Most Even professionals forget that there are exceptions to the rules. Does your therapist have a blind spot? Every therapist has to have a theory that guides his or her work. We can’t function without one. The problem with theories is that they can often obscure what …

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