Brain Snack: Your Brain Learns Better With Less Input New research shows that less frequent stimuli are more effective for learning responses in brains

When less repetition is better for learning:

"Brain Snack: Your Brain Learns Better With Less Input"

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#brain #learning #education #neuroscience

Brain Snack: One Type of Olive Oil Boosts Cognitive Power New research shows the benefits of non-processed olive oil to improve health and boost cognitive power in older people

Not all olive oil is equal!

"Brain Snack: One Type of Olive Oil Boosts Cognitive Power "

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#health #brain #cognition #wellbeing #microbiome

Brain Snack: Your Brain Sharpness Fluctuates Daily New research shows that we all have high and low brain sharp days and what drives this

Your feeling is right, you do have sharp days and foggy days, and it impacts your productivity and goal achievement dramatically !

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#brain #psychology #productivity

SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing A short but comprehensive overview of how the brain and human needs guide all of human behaviour in all situations and builds mental wellbeing.

A model that can explain behaviour, motivation, and wellbeing in life and business: discover SCOAP with our free online course here:
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#brain #neuroleadership #leadership #wellbeing #burnout #SCOAP

Research Hit: The Science of How to Form Intelligent Teams (spoiler: include women) In business, and others ares, we want to have groups of people making smart decisions.

One of my favourites - now five years old:

"The Science of How to Form Intelligent Teams (spoiler: include women) "

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#highperformance #teamperformance #intelligence #performance #business #diversity

Research Hit: Learning Before Age Five Can be Seen in the Brain Forty Years Later Education before age five leaves structural changes to the brain, identifiable forty years later — impressive!

Another one - on the importance of early education:

"Learning Before Age Five Can be Seen in the Brain Forty Years Later "

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#brain #neuroscience #learning #education

Research Hit: The Similarities of Politically Polarised Brains In an age of political polarisation, particularly in the USA, I was fascinated to read this piece of research (though I had long surmised that extremist attitudes on either side of the political…

I've been giving regular short updates on the #brain and #humanbehavior for over five years now. You can subscribe for free on my Substack - over 640 articles so far. Mostly short, some longer, some in-depth reviews and deep dives:

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#neuroleadership #neuroscience

Research Hit: How do Lonely Brains Differ from Wise Brains? I reported a few weeks ago how wise people are less likely to be lonely and how lonely people are less likely to be wise.

Resharing some of my older research reviews - good to revisit them!

I like this one: "How do Lonely Brains Differ from Wise Brains?"

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#brain #neuroscience #loneliness #wisdom

Brain Snack: How Your Mind Slows Aging New research shows that anxiety over aging is related to larger degradation in DNA biological clocks

This was one of my most popular recent posts:

How Your Mind Slows Aging (or how to think yourself younger)

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#brain #aging #longevity

Brain Snack: AI becomes More Efficient by Following Principles of Brain Growth (and Shrinking) A new proposal for AI uses brain principles and seems to be more efficient

AI becomes More Efficient by Following Principles of Brain Growth (and Shrinking):

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#AI #brain #neuroscience

Brain Snack: Your Brain Sharpness Fluctuates Daily New research shows that we all have high and low brain sharp days and what drives this

Your feeling is right, you do have sharp days and foggy days, and it impacts your productivity and goal achievement dramatically !

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#brain #psychology #productivity

leading brains Review | Andy Haymaker | Substack The brain and behaviour in society, learning, health, and business. Click to read leading brains Review, by Andy Haymaker, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Head over to my Substack to browse over 600 posts on the #brain, #psychology, and #humanbehavior. For my short "Brain Snacks" to long reads and research reviews.

Mostly for free but you can also subscribe for a modest fee.

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Brain Snack: When Doubting your Doubts Boosts Motivation A new study shows that doubt can, counter-intuitively, boost motivation to achieve goals

This was my most popular "Brain Snack" in Q1 2026:

"When Doubting your Doubts Boosts Motivation"

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#psychology #motivation

Brain Snack: Your Brain is Better at Detecting Deep Fakes than You are! Your brain registers deep fakes even when you consciously don't

Brain Snack: Your Brain is Better at Detecting Deep Fakes than You are!

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#AI #deepfake #brain #consciousness

Brain Snack: The Benefits (and Downsides) of Mental Time Travel How imagining the future can help train the brain and promote positive outcomes

Why thinking about future events can be considered “pre-learning”:

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#brain #learning #wellbeing

Brain Snack: Your Brain Splits Your Memories The brain breaks down and stores memories into two parts (at least)

A few neurons on memory:

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#brain #neuroscience #memory

Research Hit: The Rise (or not) of Artificial Moral Advisors New research shows that we trust humans more than AI in moral questions, even if responses are the same

..and the limits of AI moral advisors:

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#morality #AI

Research Hit: AI Outperforms Humans On Moral Judgements AI gives responses to moral transgressions that are rated as more virtuous, intelligent, and trustworthy.

Maybe AI will save us after all:

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#morality #AI

Research Hit: The Illusion of Moral Decline How we all believe morals have declined since our birth - irrespective of how old we are or year of birth!

..and another one:

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#morality

Do Conservatives and Liberals Have Moral Brains? New insights into the moral brain

...and on my topic today of morality, let's get into politics:

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#morality #politics #brain #neuroscience

Brain Snack: A Brain Region For Morality? Researchers have associated moral consistency with one particular brain region

Brain region for morality identified - or rather for moral consistency:

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#morality #brain #neuroscience

The Part Of Your Brain That AI Doesn't Have New research shows how the brain responds to and evaluates other people's strategies

"The Part Of Your Brain That AI Doesn't Have"

New research shows how the brain responds to and evaluates other people's strategies

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#brain #neuroleadership #neuroscience

LinkedIn Pulse

One Metric for High-Performing Teams (Even in the Age of AI)

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#highperformance #neuroleadership #leadership #teamperformance

SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing A short but comprehensive overview of how the brain and human needs guide all of human behaviour in all situations and builds mental wellbeing.

Here's a short summary of my last 14 years work in an online free learning course:

"SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing"

You're welcome!

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#neuroleadership #brain #neuroscience #leadership #wellbeing

SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing A short but comprehensive overview of how the brain and human needs guide all of human behaviour in all situations and builds mental wellbeing.

Here's a short summary of my last 14 years work in an online free learning course:

"SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing"

You're welcome!

leading-brains.learnworlds.com/course/scoap...
#neuroleadership #brain #neuroscience #leadership #wellbeing

SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing A short but comprehensive overview of how the brain and human needs guide all of human behaviour in all situations and builds mental wellbeing.

Here's a short summary of my last 14 years work in an online free learning course:

"SCOAP Essentials: A Blueprint for Human Behaviour, Performance, and Wellbeing"

You're welcome!

leading-brains.learnworlds.com/course/scoap...
#neuroleadership #brain #neuroscience #leadership #wellbeing

Brain Snack: Social Connection Protects Against Cognitive Decline A new study shows that social connection boosts cognition in perimenopausal women

And yet more evidence for the power of connection:

"Social Connection Protects Against Cognitive Decline"

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#menopause #socialconnection #socialbrain #attachment #friendship

Brain Snack: Is AI Changing Your Opinion and Worldview? New research shows that there is a subtle impact on using AI - that leads to lasting changes in opinions...that reflect those of the AI tool

And something else to be worried about with AI:

" Is AI Changing Your Opinion and Worldview?"

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#AI

Brain Snack: You Spend Most Of Your Time On Autopilot New research puts a number to how much of the time we are doing habitual vs. intentional behaviours

Sorry to say but yes, you do spend most of your time on autopilot!

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#habit #brain #behavior

Intelligence As A Whole Brain Network New research explores how intelligent brains really work

Intelligence is much more than one region or even multiple regions in your brain.

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#intelligence #iq #brain