people often find themselves repeatedly checking that they have all their belongings, and fiddling with their ticket, passport or whatever might be at hand. This fidgeting helps to displace some of that anxious energy, and dissipates it through various body movements and actions...
I have seen people die because they were in the middle of the 'switching' animation and thus unable to shoot. Had they not switched to their knife and back, they would most-likely have lived. What sort of advantages do switching so frequently have? I guess my thought process is: Whil...
Hyposensitivity, also known as Sensory under-responsitivity, refersto abnormally decreased sensitivity to sensory input. Hyposensitivity is especially common in people with Autism, and is mostly seen in children. Those experiencing this have a harder time stimulating their senses than normally. https:...
they say, volunteers — mostly students — instructed to lie or tell the truth in psychology labs do not face the same consequences as criminal suspects in the interrogation room or on the witness stand. “The ‘guilty’ people had nothing at stake,” ...
When this game for smartphones first came out, I thought “Great, now I can play Scrabble with people I kind of know while I am evacuating my bowels”. You heard me. You do it too. Or you did it. Words with Friends like Scrabble I believe will be around for a long time. It’s...
Ann Berger, a National Institutes of Health researcher who teaches mindfulness to people living with pain, told the NIH's News in Health newsletter.“All of those things are things that animals bring to the table. People kind of have to learn it. Animals do this innately.”...
Children with rickets do not grow properly and can develop bow legs. Professor Pearce said: "Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air. This means their vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years." Dr. Cheetham, a ...
the autistic child was expected to do the things the other typical children were expected to do, such as sitting in their seat and not talking to classmates. They aren’t being allowed to do “whatever they want”–an assumption some people will jump to when anyone raises the no...
A large part of communication is visual.When you take that away, people are left to decipher words that, more often than not, have double meanings. Body language sometimes speaks louder than words or can help clarify words. When a person fidgets with his or her hands and bites his or he...
“If you have three different psychiatric diagnoses, which a lot of people do: anxiety, depression and substance misuse for example, then you’re ten times more likely to have ADHD,” she says. Leila, 38, believes that ADHD has affected her self-esteem. “It’s really hard when you ...