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Constant app notifications stress your brain, but you can regain your focus

Constant app notifications stress your brain, but you can regain your focus

A ping from the pizza company. A few pings from your social networks. Ping, ping, ping from your family WhatsApp group trying to host a weekend barbecue. With all those smartphone notifications, it’s no wonder you lose focus on what you’re trying to do. Your phone doesn’t even have to ping to distract you. There’s …

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Study: Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Mental Health and Brain Maturation in Adolescents: Implications for Analyzing Longitudinal Data. Image Credit: Shan_shan / Shutterstock.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused rapid brain aging in adolescents

In a recent Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science study, Stanford University researchers are assessing how the stress and social disruption caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the neurodevelopment of young adults. Study: Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and brain maturation in adolescents: implications for longitudinal data analysis. Image …

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Actuaries stress need for ethical use of AI in insurance – Reinsurance News

As artificial intelligence (AI) promises faster and smarter decision-making, the Institute of Actuaries and the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) are concerned about possible discrimination and stress the need to prevent it. To address the issue, they created a guidance resource designed to help insurers and actuaries comply with federal anti-discrimination legislation when AI is …

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