This is What Long-Term Stress Is Doing To Your Short-Term Memory – PsyBlog

A toxic boss or a workplace bully can do more than ruin your day. Long-term stress damages the brain’s short-term memory system, new research finds. Chronic stress leads to a build-up of macrophages in the the brain, researchers found. It took four weeks for the immune response to reduce and the memory problems to resolve. …

From Carolyn Arnold's new mystery adventure series: City of Gold

Carolyn Arnold is launching a brand-new adventure series! Modern-day archaeologist and adventurer Matthew Connor travels the globe with his two closest friends to unearth treasure and discover legends the world has all but forgotten. Indiana Jones meets the twenty-first century! Book #1 is City of Gold. Finding the Inca’s lost City of Gold would be the …

Want to get promoted, ladies? Save up for platform shoes and voice coaching

Asking for a promotion, negotiating for a raise, or speaking up about concerns may help a male employee get ahead, but a female employee could easily end up labeled as “bossy” or worse for the exact same behavior. Research suggests that many women rightly worry that being “too aggressive” may result in backlash from their …

Interview and Giveaway: N.J. Thames, Happy Homicides, Thirteen Cozy Mysteries

Love can be deadly. As proven by these traditional mysteries, cunningly crafted by thirteen bestselling and award-winning authors. Nearly 500-pages of heart-warming, brain puzzling, and character-driven reads. Your purchase includes a free gift, a file with recipes and craft ideas sure to put you in a romantic mood any time of the year! >>>Enter here …

Interview: Loretta Ross, author of Death & The Brewmaster’s Widow

They call it “the Brewmaster’s Widow”; the abandoned brewery where Death Bogart’s brother died in an arson fire. With his girlfriend, Wren Morgan, Death goes home to St. Louis to take on a deeply personal mystery. When Randy Bogart went into the Einstadt Brewery, he left his broken badge behind at the firehouse. So why …