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Awareness Education

Most Controversial Debates in Modern Psychology 

As an example, consider two children born and raised in the same home environment. The children attend the same school, receive the same opportunities, and live with the same parents. Despite all of this, one develops anxiety, and another is immune to

Research

B-Cell Depletion Enhances Protective Gut-Derived Cells in Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a disability of long-term inflammatory illness in which your own immune cells mistakenly cause damage to myelin, the insulating sheath on nerves in your brain and spine. Treatments that temporarily deplete a type of B cell

Relationship

Body Image and Sexual Confidence: How Self-Perception Shapes Intimacy 

The concept of intimacy is not only about physical closeness but also about psychological comfort. The body image of a person is their perception of their physical appearance, which is subjective in nature and plays a very important role in

Awareness

Hysterical Blindness: Symptoms, Causes and Intervention

When the Mind Shuts Down Sight, Darkness comes, though the eyes that work just fine. Take this scenario: one morning, sight vanishes without injury, with no physical cause at all. The scans show nothing: no tumours, no lesions, no broken

Research

How Anaesthesia Changes Brain Waves and Consciousness

Our consciousness is something that we are constantly aware of, but it actually has to work to do it. The study published in Neuroscience News works to understand the patterns that make us aware and how they change when we

Awareness Self Help

Most Powerful Ways Neuroplasticity Changes the Brain

Think about learning how to play the guitar, having been convinced for years that you do not possess any musical abilities, conquering your fear through therapy, or recovering your mobility due to a brain injury. Even though these examples do not

Research

Brain Structures Interlinked in Sleep-Dependent Memory Consolidation

Don’t think your brain shuts down when you’re sleeping; actually, it has quite a bit to shift through and save to long-term memory when we’re asleep. Most of us do get the benefit of the role of sleep in our

Health Parenting

The Psychology of Early Intervention in Child Development

Children’s first five years of life are a unique period of development. This is a developmental period when the brain is growing faster than at any other time in life, with the formation of about one million new neural connections every

Awareness

Why Men Quit Therapy: Breaking the Silence Around Men’s Mental Health

44% of men do not complete therapy (Constantino et al., 2021). “Consider Amir, a 34-year-old  engineer, who after months of restless nights decided to arrange his first therapy appointment. He went twice, spoke very little and gradually ceased going”. While

Awareness Health Parenting

Parental Grief and Diagnosis of Neurodivergent Condition

As a child psychologist or a school counsellor, have you ever found yourself struggling to find words to explain a child’s diagnosis (Neurodivergent children) to their parents or has a parent’s reaction to the diagnosis left you unsure of how