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Awareness

Microaggressions Explained: Understanding, Impact, and Solutions

Microaggressions are intentional or inadvertent, short, everyday verbal, behavioural, or environmental insults that convey hostility, disdain, or negative prejudice toward any group—especially culturally marginalised groups. Another type of microaggression is microinvalidation, which is the rejection or negation of someone’s identity or

Awareness

Why We Talk to Objects: The Psychology of Human Connection with the Inanimate

Picture yourself hurrying through your day when your foot is abruptly caught by a chair leg. You mumble, “Why would you do that?” without thinking. It’s more frequent than we may think to talk to inanimate objects, whether it’s to

Awareness

The Upside Down of Binge Watching

Remember the last time you ran from one corner of your house to another and grabbed the remote to switch on the television just in time for your favourite TV show or a special movie premiere? Maybe you still do

Awareness

Can the Presence of Mental Health Issues Masquerade as Increased Hunger?

Do you often find yourself stuck in a loop of eating even if you aren’t hungry and then feeling guilty about it? Do you often find yourself bingeing on food products rich in sugar during stressful times? Does your body

Therapy

What to talk about in therapy?

So you have booked an appointment with a counselor and decided to begin your journey of healing and transformation. You find yourself worrying that you would sit in complete silence while your therapist waits for you to begin conversing. It’s

Industrial

Do Mental Health Apps really Work? 

Envision feeling overburdened and nervous after a long day of balancing work, family obligations,  and personal stress. Then you open an app on your phone in with the expectation that it will offer the help that you require. But can

Research

Functional architecture of the cerebral cortex during naturalistic movie watching 

Analyzing movie-watching functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 176  young adults in the Human Connectome Project, researchers conducted a detailed analysis to outline the functional clusters within the human cerebral cortex. The study applied hierarchical clustering on time-averaged fMRI

Awareness

The Other Side of Grief: Exploring Non-Traditional Bereavement

Grief, a feeling that most can identify with, is usually related to saying good-bye to loved ones. Society creates specific rituals for mourning, as if they can fully capture the personal value of losses like a loved one’s death or losing

Research

New Research Links Exercise to Enhanced Language Processing in Older Adults

A recent study conducted by the University of Birmingham has shown that regular physical exercise in older adults can substantially improve language processing abilities, a new insight into some of the cognitive advantages of being physically active. The results underscore

Education

Psychology of Waiting: Why it feels forever When You’re Anxious

Waiting is a delay, a form of inaction. It is described as remaining idle while anticipating an event. Our perception of waiting is primarily influenced by two areas of the brain. (PsychCentral) As an alarm system, the amygdala sustains and