Tag Archives: mental-health

Neuroscience News: Why Willpower Fails and How to Restore Focus

Posted on May 30, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Relying on reactive willpower to resist constant digital notifications exhausts finite attentional reserves, whereas utilizing proactive control and self-hypnosis preserves cognitive bandwidth to optimize deep flow states. Credit: Neuroscience News Why Willpower Fails and How to Restore Focus FeaturedNeuroscience ·May … Continue reading →

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The Conversation: Warning: this article contains distressing quotes from perpetrators of child sexual abuse.

Posted on May 29, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Academic rigour, journalistic flair Share article Print article Warning: this article contains distressing quotes from perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Researchers have long tried to answer the question: why do some men sexually abuse children? We recently set out to … Continue reading →

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Axios: Talk to your kid tonight

Posted on May 29, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Talk to your kid tonight Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios. Stock: Getty Images   You probably don’t think twice when your kid disappears into their room for a few hours on Minecraft or Roblox. That’s exactly what makes this conversation worth having, writes Chase … Continue reading →

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Psychology Today: The Dangerous Group Targeting Children Online. Do you know about the 764 Network

Posted on May 27, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The Dangerous Group Targeting Children Online The 764 Network is reaching young people through games, apps, and private chats. Posted May 27, 2026 |  Reviewed by Gary Drevitch Key points I’ve been struggling for some time with how to share this information because … Continue reading →

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The Harvard Gazette: Schizophrenia … Quote: “As he got to know more patients, the romantic view that first captivated him gave way to an understanding that the delusions of schizophrenia are more terrifying than mind-expanding, but his interest only increased. “People with schizophrenia have enormous creative abilities,” Freedman says. “I admire them for what they struggle against when the world around them is threatening and they just keep plugging away.””

Posted on May 27, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Reconsidering the Causes of Schizophrenia Discovering a sensory quirk in patients sent Robert Freedman on a decades-long quest for genetic and biological clues Spring 2026 Robert Freedman Photo: Timothy Archibald Robert Freedman, MD ’72, was standing in front of his psychiatry … Continue reading →

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The Harvard Gazette: Stress and the Gut

Posted on May 26, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Health When stress is a punch to the gut Jacqueline Mitchell BIDMC Communications May 19, 2026 3 min read New study traces network of nerves that disrupt digestion, pointing to potential IBS treatment When stress affects the gut, the stomach tightens, … Continue reading →

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Do you endlessly scroll … this is a must read

Posted on May 26, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Why Your Brain Can’t Stop Scrolling — And What It’s Doing to Your Focus, Sleep, and Motivation 4 min read Is your brain working against you? Take a short quiz to see if dopamine dysregulation could be the reason — … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: The ventral premotor cortex acts as an abstract mental typewriter, storing and recombining discrete action symbols to drive compositional generalization and creative problem-solving. Credit: Neuroscience News. Comment: (post TBI, frontal lobal damage ex contrecoup, aphasia inter alia other outcomes applies. Also defined by the word Broca) – Quote “Mechanistically decoding how symbols are assembled provides a framework to dramatically improve BCIs, allowing devices to translate neural intent into fluent speech or physical action. The paradigm also offers diagnostic pathways for action-planning disorders like constructional apraxia and psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia.”

Posted on May 25, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

The ventral premotor cortex acts as an abstract mental typewriter, storing and recombining discrete action symbols to drive compositional generalization and creative problem-solving. Credit: Neuroscience News Brain Region Discovered for Abstract Thought Neuroscience ·May 23, 2026 Summary: Researchers discovered the first … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Schizophrenia. Maybe some hope with this awful diagnosis, so often, casting people into criminal acts or lives of disarray

Posted on May 22, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Schizophrenia Risk Gene Linked to Hyper-Excitable Neurons FeaturedGeneticsNeurosciencePsychology ·May 20, 2026 Summary: A precision functional genomics study successfully mapped the biological timing and cellular consequences of a major schizophrenia-associated gene. The research investigates ZNF804A, the very first risk gene identified from … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Brain Rewores to Stabilize Walking During Visual Impairment

Posted on May 19, 2026 by michelleclarke2015

Functional neuroimaging demonstrates that the brain adapts to degraded visual navigation inputs by rigidly activating primary motor areas and explicitly amplifying the functional connection between executive cognitive control and physical motor execution centers. Credit: Neuroscience News Brain Rewires to Stabilize … Continue reading →

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