Infographic: Harmful Effects of Multitasking and Digital Stress

While conventional wisdom teaches us that multitasking makes us more efficient, research suggests that we’re incapable of efficiently managing more than two tasks at a time. If you have a moment, take a break from what you’re doing to look at this infographic on how multitasking induced stress impacts our brains.

Here are some of the findings in brief:

Our daily consumption of media has more than doubled in the last 50 [...]

Born to kill? Psychopaths have different brains to normal people – and current ‘therapies’ for killers may be useless

Psychopaths have less grey matter in areas of brain used to ‘understand’ other people
‘Cold-hearted’ criminals suffer abnormality in the brain
May mean current behavioural therapies are useless

Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter: A new study suggests psychopaths have physically different brains from ‘normal’ people – and may be ‘born to kill’

Psychopaths have physically different brains from ‘normal’ people – and may be ‘born to kill’.

In scans by scientists, they had less grey matter [...]