Mary Martin

Human beings simply aren’t wired for longitudinally taking care of themselves; we engage with the things that we find interesting and intrinsically motivating. Simply knowing that something is “good for us” isn’t a catalyst for changing our behavior. An effective therapy must be something a patient wants to do because it is compelling, and not... See more

Our findings suggest that mindfulness may be beneficial for reducing self-reported short-term stress for English speakers from higher-income countries.

udy fin

One of the most honest accounts I’ve encountered of humanity’s relationship with nonhuman animals comes from political theorist Dinesh Wadiwel, who describes it as a state of war — not a metaphorical war, but a literal one, in which we are the aggressors. If you were an alien who knew nothing about our species, you might expect a civilization that... See more

Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.

we tell ourselves that humans do something clever or tactical because our brains have simulated that this course of action will produce favourable outcomes, but when we learn that ants do the same thing by enacting preprogrammed responses to pheromones, surely that doesn’t count.

cognition is the result of information processing distributed across all cellular systems in the body, including the brain, which is, in our view, (part of) the body. Speaking about brain-body-environment interactions in constituting cognition may be misleading because it tacitly inherits the distinction between mind (brain) and body. Cognitive... See more