A few slow-paced breaths are enough to significantly reduce physiological stress

Welcome to a new edition of SharpBrains’ e‑newsletter, sharing important brain & mental health news plus a couple fun brain teasers to test your mental self-rotation skills. #1. Study: Education and lifestyle helped over a million older Americans avoid serious cognitive problems in 2017 Let’s kickstart 2022 with some good news: “The prevalence of serious cognitive problems in the US population aged 65 and older declined from 12.2% to 10.0% between 2008 and 2017. Had the prevalence remained at the 2008 levels, there would have been an additional 1.13 million older Americans with serious cognitive problems in 2017.” #2. Study: A few slow-paced breaths are enough to significantly reduce physiological stress And more good news: “Our findings showed that guiding a group of children through one minute of a slow-paced breathing exercise in an everyday setting can, in the moment, significantly lower the average level of physiological arousal” — Jelena Obradovic at the Stanford Graduate School of Education #3. APA: With digital mental health going mainstream, will/ should psychologists be able to “prescribe” interventions? “The association is also working with stakeholders to address the fact that, at present, FDA-approved products—even those with a psychology basis—need to be prescribed but that most psychologists lack this authority. To help fix this problem, APA and others “are working to develop a more innovative regulatory model that fits these sof...
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