mental-health
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There is a clinical trial running right now in which GLP-1 drugs, the same molecules behind Ozempic and Wegovy, are being tested for their effect on emotional blunting. Separately, consumer neurostimulation headsets are being marketed to flatten anxiety on demand. A startup in San Francisco is offering a subscription that adjusts your baseline mood the…
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In 2024, Finland became the first country to reverse a decision to remove cursive handwriting from its national curriculum, restoring it after years of evidence that the removal had measurable consequences for literacy development, memory formation, and fine motor cognition in children. The reversal attracted global attention, but mostly from the wrong angle. Most commentary…
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There is a part of your brain that only activates when nothing is happening. Neuroscientists call it the default mode network. It switches on during rest, during daydreaming, during the unfocused wandering that happens when you stare out a window with nowhere to be. For decades after its discovery, researchers assumed it was housekeeping: the…