Dermot Barry Archive

It’s enough to leave you crying into your pint! Moderate drinking is not as harmless as it seems. In fact it impacts the structure of your brain in a very bad way indeed. Your Brain On Alcohol Killjoy researchers from the University of Oxford and University College

It’s a well accepted fact that certain animals, like dogs and rodents, have an excellent sense of smell. Humans, not so much. But according to one neuroscientist, our sense of smell is much much better than we think. We may all smell like dogs, or even rats…

Stress can be seriously damaging to our physical and mental health. Exercise, meditate and yoga can help alleviate the symptoms. That’s if you do them! Now, scientists may have found another method … eating. What lurks within I wrote previously about how important the microbiome is to

At some point we’ve all struggled to learn something new. Have you felt confident that you learned something only to find the next day that the information did not sink in? Overlearning may be the key, but it’s so powerful that it has unexpected side-effects! The Problem

Good news for social media fans! According to new research, Facebook users tend to live longer. As long as they use it right. Use Facebook For Much Longer Researchers from University of California San Diego, Yale and Facebook studied 12 million people, which is a pretty good

We all want to be happy, right? Unfortunately it’s not always easy to achieve! Many popular psychology articles and self-help books advise us to engage in random acts of kindness. The advice is from positive psychology studies which suggest that putting others ahead of yourself is the

Want to feel more self-confident, active and enthused? A new study suggests that taking an evening course can make you feel more satisfied with your life. And it doesn’t seem to matter what course you choose. Studying Happiness Researchers at Oxford University studied people who took one