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Serotonin, Belief Updating, and OCD: What New Research Reveals

This research is about serotonin, a brain chemical affecting mood. At times when things around people change, this chemical is actively involved in changing their beliefs accordingly. This is important because it helps to understand OCD better. OCD makes people

Awareness

The Construction of Emotion: Are Feelings Born or Made?

Imagine you’re about to step onto a stage for your presentation and suddenly your heart is pounding, your palms are sweating, and you’re breathing rapidly. Is it fear? Or is it also excitement?  Most of us seem to believe that

Awareness

The Digital Amnesia Epidemic: Why Saving Everything Means Remembering Nothing

There are many issues in our modern virtual worlds, and the field of neuroscience is only now starting to make sense of them. Today’s generation has more knowledge available than earlier generations, but studies suggest they are retaining less and

Awareness Industrial

Neurodiversity in the Workplace: How ADHD and Autism Can Drive Innovation

Up until recently, the typical workplace assumed that everyone should act, think, and speak the same way. Workers diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and  autism were taught to mask their behaviours to be considered “professional.” Masking is a practice that consists

News

‘Don’t Waste Food’: How a Hyderabad Activist Turned Childhood Hunger into a Movement Feeding Millions

A social activist from Hyderabad, who once faced difficulties like starvation and poverty, is now getting noticed due to his contributions toward fighting food insecurity by distributing surplus food. Mr Nemani Malleshwar Rao, founder of a social movement known as

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DAVV’s New Discipline Strategy Focuses on Mental Health and Student Responsibility

Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) has decisively taken measures on its campus to restore institutional decorum and protect its public image, following the recent incidents of campus vandalism. In a move aimed at controlling the behaviours, the university’s executive council held

Awareness Self Help

The Wounded Self: How Self-Compassion Supports Emotional Healing

How many times have you said “I’m fine” while you are anything but? A student who can’t focus in class may label themselves ‘lazy’. A parent who yells at loved ones may condemn themselves for being ‘bad-tempered’. A young adult whose

Research

New Research Reveals How the Brain Combines Symbols to Create New Ideas and Abstract Thought

This research explores how the brain creates and reuses abstract “symbols” to support creative thinking and problem solving. Understanding this process is important because abilities like language, math, drawing, and tool use all depend on combining simple elements into new

Technology

Beyond the Synapse: The Future of Psychology Beyond AI and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Now imagine you cannot move or talk anymore, but thanks to a computer chip in your brain, you are able to communicate once more. Thanks to neurotechnologies,  such an image is becoming a reality, and the way we view the human

Health

Intermittent Explosive Disorder (IED): Causes, Symptoms, and Effective Interventions

After working hard during the day, Aman was driving home. He had faced many challenges and stress while at work, then something happened that surprised him. A cyclist rode in front of his car suddenly. Aman couldn’t believe it! Aman