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The Dopaminergic Loop of Predictive AI Feeds: How Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward System

How Logic Algorithms Hijack the Brain’s Reward Structure, and Why Isolation Makes It Worse. Just about every user of TikTok and Instagram Videos, or YouTube Shorts, can probably relate to a certain story. At some point in the evening, a

Education Research

Predictive Processing: Is the Brain Really a Prediction Machine?

Imagine waking up from your sleep and walking to your washroom to get your toothbrush in the usual place. Even before the eyes had fully registered the scene, your brain had predicted where the toothbrush was. However, if the toothbrush

Education

Lost in Time: Michel Siffre’s Cave Experiments and the Psychology of Isolation

Assume you wake up without a phone call or an alarm, no sunshine filtering through the curtains and telling you that it’s morning. There is no clock to let you know whether it’s day or night. Soon,  you find it difficult

Research

Intelligence Without Awareness: A Neuroscientific Case Against AI Consciousness

The research article titled “Intelligence Without Awareness: A Neuroscientific Case Against AI Consciousness” examines an essential problem that arises in today’s world dominated by technologies: is AI intelligence (such as chatbots) really conscious, or is it only able to imitate

Awareness

The Psychology Behind Self-Medication

Have you ever diagnosed yourself, or have you ever self-medicated, only because you didn’t want to visit your physician or because the health issue was minor? Many individuals give many reasons behind self-medication. They will either take the medicine from

Awareness Health

Patient H.M.: The Man Who Could Never Form New Memories

For over half a century, each morning, a man would get up and think, “Oh, it’s still 1953”. He didn’t even recognise himself in the mirror; he was expecting to see a young man, not an old man! He was able to

Therapy

Retail Therapy: Comfort or Coping? Why We Shop When We’re Stressed

It has not been an easy week for you, and here you are at midnight, browsing through an online store and filling up your shopping cart with things that you don’t even need. Do these instances sound familiar to you? They have

Education

A Meeting That Changed Psychology: Gordon Allport and Sigmund Freud

The world has witnessed revolutions, discoveries and grand events which have changed the course of history. However, not every change is grand; sometimes a brief conversation can alter the course of an entire discipline. One such conversation had occurred in

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How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Helps Break the Anxiety Cycle

CBT helps to identify anxious thoughts that lead to an overload of physical symptoms. If it is more, it results in avoidance, thus increasing fear. CBT first identifies such thoughts, which are then checked against facts. Following this, the patients

Awareness

Mental Health in India Is More Glorified Than Addressed

Over the past decade, India has witnessed a rising concern towards the mental well-being of individuals. Social media has played a pivotal role in spreading awareness among the common people. Exposure to content relating to mental health and psychological well-being