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Beyond Recovery: Understanding Mental Health After Cancer

Once treatment stops, most assume life snaps back into place. Loved ones clap, hug, and cry, relieved that chemo, operations, or beams are finally behind them. But for plenty who made it through, relief rarely brings simplicity, just new ground to

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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

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Model Mugging: Understanding the Freeze Response and Trauma-Informed Self-Defence

Imagine walking back home at night. You are in an alley, just a hundred metres away, and you will reach home. Suddenly, you slow down, there’s someone! Your heart paces faster, your palms sweat. Someone is behind you!  What should I

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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

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Digital Insomnia: Why the Brain Refuses to Shut Down at Night

In 2019, researchers discovered that 72% of individuals use their cellphones in their rooms. Furthermore, 56% of those surveyed admitted to checking their phones within half an hour of their intended sleep time (American Psychological Association, 2020). The consequence is

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How Collagen Tiles Are Transforming Brain Cancer Treatment

Since brain cancer is aggressive and has few treatment choices, it continues to be a major problem in medical research. Improving patient outcomes requires creative methods for brain tumour management. In order to improve treatment efficacy while reducing harm to

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Beyond Betrayal: Understanding the Mental Health Factors Behind Affairs

An analysis of the mental and interpersonal factors that support infidelity, its implications that go beyond the relationship, and what clinical studies recognise as the basis for avoidance and repair.  Imagine a couple who, on most observable measures, seem to

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The Gender Gap in Research: How Women and LGBTQ+ Communities Have Been Overlooked

Imagine you are invited to a room only to remain unnoticed for more than an hour. You are sitting back patiently and waiting to be seen, addressed or at least experience the feeling of inclusivity. Over time, the silence begins

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Why Smart People succeed the least by asking for help: The psychology of avoidance

Certainly, there is a bit of “irony” in the relationship between intelligence and help-seeking. The better someone is at problem-solving, creating arguments, and solving problems on their own, the more likely they are to use that same skill to rationalize/convince

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The Mental Load of Medicare: Decision Fatigue in Later Life and How to Reduce It

People bring up issues of financial stress in ageing often enough, but they ignore the cognitive and emotional aspects of the decisions that come with it. Which issue better represents that than Medicare? For many seniors, they put the bulk