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Awareness

Understanding How Trauma and ADHD Can Feel the Same

There’s a child who just can’t sit still and is easily distracted. But is the child fidgeting, or is it hypervigilance? What if the restless mind that everyone’s trying to calm down isn’t a neurodevelopmental problem, but a struggle for

Positive Self Help

Decision-Making and the Brain: Neuroscience of Choice and Emotion

The art of selecting one among several, popularly referred to as decision-making, is a critical mental function that is part and parcel of the human experience. The intricate process is highly influenced by individual preferences, experience, and environmental limitations. Neuroscientific

Social Technology

How Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain at the Museum of Illusions

Have you ever stepped into a room and sensed the floor tipping over, though you were aware it was flat? Or gazed at a picture, noticed something, blinked, and it transformed into something else altogether? This is the illusion of

Self Help

Why Do We Worry So Much and How Can We Calm Our Mind?

The active mind state occurs regularly, a constant circle of worry and overanalysis. Concern is fixated on potential dangers or adverse results, creating more worry and suffering. It is seen in worrying over responsibilities, relationships, or uncertainty regarding the future.

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Breaking Free from Anxiety’s Grip: Understanding When Worry Becomes Overwhelming

Sarah is at her desk, her heart racing as she looks at the email that she has to send. What should be an easy task is instead a mountain for her, which brings up in her mind all the what-if

Health

The Psychology of Sleep Disorders: Causes, Symptoms & Treatment

Sleep-Wake disturbances disturb normal sleep, and sleep is crucial to health and well-being. They pose serious clinical challenges to bodily, psychological, and social health for the individual. Impaired or non-restorative sleep can cause impairment and adversely affect quality of life

Education Self Help

How to Trick Your Brain to Study and Stay Focused

Mental resistance is a common hindrance for students, and it most often occurs in the forms of procrastination, apprehension, and evasion of study. It should be understood that the resistance may occur due to the fear of failure, negative self-talk,

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Selank: A Window into Peptide-Based Neurological Research

Selank is a heptapeptide (Thr‑Lys‑Pro‑Arg‑Pro‑Gly‑Pro), synthesised as a stable analogue of the endogenous immunomodulatory peptide tuftsin. First developed at the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Selank was designed to harness tuftsin’s regulatory properties while supporting

Self Help

Emotional Healing: How Time and Action Accelerate Recovery from Trauma

The process of healing emotionally is a very personal process that individuals undergo after suffering intense trauma, loss, or emotional distress. This process tends to take two main courses: healing over time and healing through conscious effort. The concept of

Positive Self Help

The Neuroscience of Self-Care: How Sleep, Mindfulness, and Routines Improve Brain Health

Did you ever consider how self-practice is so amazingly good for you? It’s more than indulgence; self-care gets at the very deep workings and pays back the incredibly complex mechanisms of your brain. This article explores the neuroscientific roots of