Tag Archives : thought

A study released Thursday in the U.S. suggests that people spend almost half the time wondering who would like to be somewhere else or doing something else, and this perpetual dispersion of mind makes them unhappy. The study followed 2,250 people through their iPhones. An application has been installed for volunteers to ask “how happy they are, [...]

British neurologist Oliver Sacks believes that listening to patients should be at the heart of medicine. In his 2007 book entitled ‘Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,’ he explores the place of melody in the human brain that is ‘capable of expressing and evoking emotions and mental states that go beyond language.’ Music, thus, has a [...]