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Risk of Developing Parkinson’s Disease Due to Sleep Deprivation & Sleep Quality

This study examines whether sleep duration and subjective sleep quality are associated with risk for developing Parkinson’s disease (PD). This research is significant because Parkinson’s disease is prevalent among the elderly, and in many people, symptoms like shaking don’t emerge

Research Technology

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

Social

Why We Feel the Need to Document Every Moment: The Psychology Behind Constant Sharing

Imagine a woman eating a delicious meal with her best friends, with a beautiful candlelight on the table, laughing with joy. Before eating, she positions her phone for the best position, adjusts the lighting of the mobile, clicks several pictures,

Research

How Neurons Choose a Single Axon: New Research Reveals an Internal Growth Mechanism

The study, the topic of the research paper featured in the above research snapshot, delves into the question of how a young neuron goes about choosing which one of the dozens of tiny branches emanating from its core will grow

Awareness

Digital Identity vs Real Identity: How Social Media Shapes Who We Are

Imagine you are meeting someone new with whom you have been frequently communicating online. This is the very first time you are meeting in person, and you are feeling like you already know them, their hobbies, favourite colour, achievements and

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

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

Positive

Is It Okay to Laugh at That? The Science of Dark Humour

Have you ever encountered that stand-up comedy video in which the comedian says, “We are the only country in which we find garbage in a garden and a baby in a garbage bag”? Well, that is an oops moment where