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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

Health Research

Visual Agnosia and Achromatopsia: Understanding the Brain’s Visual Disorders

Imagine walking up one Sunday ready to begin your day. It seems like a regular day, and you reach for your favourite newspaper… just to realise that suddenly you can’t read it. No matter how hard you try, words have lost

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Capgras Syndrome: When Loved Ones Become Imposters

Have you ever wondered how it is that we recognise someone as a loved one? The poets would absolutely say something like ‘my heart recognises them’, but when we really think about it, it all comes down to seeing them and

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

Relationship

The Neuroscience of Good Conversations: How Neural Synchrony Builds Connection

A hyperscanning research study shows what occurs in both brains when people are really connected and why someone across from you is more important than you believe.  Think back to when a discussion truly made people feel understood. Not merely

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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

Social

Anchoring, Framing, and Pricing: The Hidden Psychology of Sales

Have you ever noticed that you buy certain items not because of immediate need but because the “50%” tag just cannot be avoided? Why is it that we feel better adding to the cart the item on sale for ₹999

Education Research

The Monster Study: The Cruel 1939 Experiment That Terrified Children into Silence

In 1939, A University of Iowa graduate student deliberately made children who were orphaned and had normal hearing and language believe that they were stutterers by challenging their speech, interrupting their sentences and making them aware of each word they

Awareness

Why Do Humans Fear Rejection? The Psychology of Belonging

The day before, an email arrived regarding a job interview. Upon seeing it, excitement set in, a prompt reply was sent, and an interview was successfully scheduled for the following week. On the day of the interview, waking up early,