Category: Neuroscience and Cognition
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Battling Addiction
Addiction is a neurological disease that affects millions. How can we help them? From the desk of Dr. Teresa Franklin I earned my PhD in 1999 from Hahnemann University in Phila, PA, USA. Since then, I have worked mainly at the Center for the Studies of Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at University of…
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Unravelling Body image issues
Negative body image. We have all been there. In this day of Instagram perfection, body dysmorphia has become an epidemic, as we struggle with the idea that our health and wealth and happiness is 100% dependent on what we look like. This is of course not a new phenomenon – each society has had its…
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Cat Cognition
But…does my cat love me?? They say the world is divided into two sorts of people, the cat lovers and the dog lovers, never the two shall meet. Cat owners swear by their pets – apparently the most watched content on the internet is that of cats, while others render cats unloving, unreachable, aloof, sometimes…