Category: Health & Cognitive Science
Formerly “healing and emotional wellness”.
Health & Cognitive Science is a better description for the kind of evidence based health news and cognitive health, neuroscience, and psychology studies I like to read and share.
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STEM & Cognitive Science Links Roundup for Nov 24, 2024
Why saying “good luck” might undermine success, the surprising effects of venting, and how oxytocin could combat addiction. Discover how kids learn best after witnessing impossible events, and why your body’s cells might have more to do with memory than we thought.
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Finding Hope in Life’s Revisions- on failure, fifth drafts and third acts
On resilience. In life, starting over again and again can be seen as inconsistency or failure. In writing and product design, it’s refinement.
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Prompts: podcasts I’m listening to.
As a product designer and as someone with adhd, I love learning about what drives our behaviour and beliefs- individually and collectively. I also like to laugh and be entertained, not lectured. These 4 are my faves.
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The Spirit of Theranos lives on in Femtech
A drop of blood and methods that may not work. that This isn’t the first femtech startup with controversy around efficacy, privacy or safety
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Is There Any Proof Vision Boards Work?
Where I dig into studies on vision boards and distill when and how they do and don’t work.
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YES, UVA rays do enter through the window: and 6 myths about sunlight
Shade isn’t an SPF, and other sun myth busting I’m forced to engage in regularly.
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How to actually deal with negative thoughts – for anxiety sufferers
For people with anxiety, popular advice for negative thoughts only makes them stronger. Here’s what actually works.
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Code Switching: How being “Other” leaves you Empty
We’ve heard that socialising is good for our health, but for POC and neurodivergents, socialising goes hand in hand with Code Switching – which harms our mental wellbeing.
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Health And Emotional Wellness Roundup – Nov 14: Feeling happy is just one component of Happiness
Happiness is just one element of what makes us “Happy”; Time Famine – How it Negatively Impacts our Health; How to have a meaningful life; Vit B12 deficiency linked to some Alzheimer’s
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Healing & Emotional Health Best Reads: Reacting vs Responding, Vitamin C RDAs Should be Doubled, CDC says Depressed should get Covid Booster shot
Reacting vs Responding; Know the Symptoms of Vitamin C Deficiency, Depression and Mental Health Conditions Grounds for a Covid Booster; Why We Wake up at 3am (and why it feels like the end of the world); and Good Psychological Advice in Dune.
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