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globalization and the internet may be flattening the world’s once spiky terrain of mental disorders
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
Descriptions like Nuland’s convinced me that such things could be known only face-to-face.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
One benefit of knowing the science is a kind of protective skepticism. It should make us deeply suspicious of any enterprise that offers a formula for making babies smarter or teaching them more, from flash cards to Mozart tapes to Better Baby Institutes. Everything we know about babies suggests that these artificial interventions are at best usele
... See moreAlison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff, • The Scientist In The Crib: Minds, Brains, And How Children Learn
The changes the pregnant brain undergoes have been underestimated, Hoekzema told me, “as hormones and their impact often are, and thought of as something akin to an extreme menstrual period, while this is of course on a completely different scale.” It is likely the most drastic endocrine event in human life. But people think of new motherhood as ma
... See moreLucy Jones • Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Brain monitoring may be the future of work – how it’s used could improve employee performance or worsen discrimination
Paul Brandt-Rauftheconversation.com
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