Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

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It’s hard to describe what it feels like to be a GP. Sitting in a room alone, with patients rotating in and out, tackling a never-ending list—there’s no space to breathe. It can be relentless.

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The Ultimate Guide to Self-Regulation in the Classroom, book by Sue Cowley

I'm doing a free giveaway to celebrate the publication of my latest book! Like and repost to enter (UK only). Winner announced on Sunday. See the link below to find out more about the book. #freebie #giveaway

The overfitted brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization Understanding of the evolved biological function of sleep has advanced considerably in the past decade. However, no equivalent understanding of dreams…

A dream theory that deviates from Mark Solms/S. Freud is proposed by Erik Hoel. Importantly, his version includes random loosening of the over-fitted daily experiences to improve the generalizability of learning.

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I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)

"It is right to ask why a feminist psychiatry is needed when all patients should surely be treated according to scientific evidence. Unfortunately, that evidence base is skewed too." My review of @suzypuss.bsky.social's Out of Her Mind @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Insurance Company Annoyed Customer Doesn’t Realize They Were Just Being Polite When They Said They’d Cover Healthcare Bills

Insurance Company Annoyed Customer Doesn’t Realize They Were Just Being Polite When They Said They’d Cover Healthcare Bills
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Birth defects prevented by fortifying flour with folic acid New legislation being introduced today will require millers and flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid from the end of 2026.

🇬🇧 New legislation being introduced today will require millers & flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with #FolicAcid from the end of 2026

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#FoodFortification #PublicHealth #SpinaBifida

Lindt Chocolate Isn’t ‘Expertly Crafted’—It’s Actually Full of Lead Lindt has been forced to admit (via a class-action lawsuit) that it may not exactly be telling the truth in its marketing...

Finding the Lindt-contains-Lead class-action lawsuit a bit of a downer. My commitment to supermarket-available 85% chocolate is now in direct conflict with my dedication to brain health... www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Just picked up "The Centre Cannot Hold" by Elyn R. Saks

A British pensioner whose bland sandwiches gained him unexpected fame in China has died. Keith Brown, a retired engineer known on Chinese social media as "Old Dry Keith", became a hit when his Chinese wife Zhang Jian began to post videos of him assembling the ham and cheese sandwiches he liked to eat. Chinese observers were grimly fascinated by his dry, boring sandwiches, and his gentle, stoic manner - and he built up a cult following. "We go from questioning the dry old man, to understanding the dry old man, to becoming the dry old man," observed one cultural commentator. "The old man is us, and his dry lunch is our dry life."