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Master your nervous system in seconds with the Physiological Sigh. 🌬️ Two quick inhales, one long exhale. Try it now. #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #Motivation #GrowthMindset #Neuroscience #Biohacking #StressRelief #Focus #MentalHealth #Calm

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This piece on feeling lucky and optimistic made a lot of sense to me: www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/29/down...

Might read the book too:

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Why Your Brain Won't Shut Up at 2 AM (And How to Force It To) 🧠 Is Your Brain Stuck in 'Problem-Solving Mode' at 2 AM? Ever feel like you've done everything right—drank the chamomile, dimmed the lights, tracked your stats—but your mind is still running a marathon while your body is desperate for the finish line? In this episode, we’re ditching the generic 'sleep hygiene' advice and diving into the high-performance biology of 2026. We uncover why your brain’s analytical circuits refuse to shut down and how to use Cognitive Shuffling to literally scramble those repetitive thought cycles into micro-dreams. If you've been struggling with nighttime hypervigilance, you aren't broken; your brain just thinks it's still on guard duty. What you’ll learn in this masterclass: - 🚀 The Brain Scrambler: How to use random imagery to bypass the 'Problem-Solving Mode' and trigger immediate Sleep Onset. - ⚡ Vagus Nerve Hacks: The specific breathing patterns that act as a biological kill-switch for stress. - 🌡️ The Thermal Transition: Why a warm bath is actually about a Core Temperature Drop, not just relaxation. - 🌅 Circadian Sunset Mimicry: Using low-angle lighting to signal to your DNA that the day is over. - 🔋 Building Sleep Pressure: Why you need to stop 'trying' to sleep and start letting biology take the wheel. We’re moving beyond 'Sleepmaxxing' gadgets and into the Slow Sleep Movement. It’s time to tell your nervous system that it is finally safe to let go. ✨ Enjoyed the deep dive? If this episode helped you find your 'off' switch, share it with a fellow overthinker and leave us a review to help others find their path to rest! 💤 #Neuroscience #SleepHacks #VagusNerve #CognitiveShuffling  

📣 New Podcast! "Why Your Brain Won't Shut Up at 2 AM (And How to Force It To)" on @Spreaker #anxietyrelief #biohacking #biophysics #brainhacks #circadianrhythm #cognitiveshuffling #deepsleep #healthoptimization #insomniarelief #mentalhealth #neuroscience #nighttimeroutine #restorativepeace

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Get outside for 10 minutes every morning to hardwire your circadian rhythm. ⚡ #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #Motivation #GrowthMindset #Neuroscience #Biohacking #Sleep #Productivity #MorningRoutine

The Claustrum Is Clocking, Not Conducting: Two Predictions from Synthetic Architecture Engineering | Raef Meeuwisse | Synthetic Intelligence Get more from Raef Meeuwisse | Synthetic Intelligence on Patreon

Here is a #free post on how the Claustrum works. It was rejected by less wrong - but I think it is worth the read. #Neuroscience #AI www.patreon.com/posts/claust...

We are grateful to all those who attended the Brain conference 2026! We would like to also thank all those who came and gave us truly inspiring talks and poster presentations.

#brain2026 #neuroscience

🧠 Neuroscience breakthrough:

Expert mathematicians don’t use language areas for #math!

Instead, their brains amplify ancient number-sense circuits in the intraparietal sulci & prefrontal cortex.🤓

Math builds on basic intuition!

Ever felt that “aha” moment?

#SciComm #Neuroscience 🧪

🦯 The Cells Nobody Was Watching
BCI research focus almost entirely on neurons. Makes sense, BCIs read & write neural activity. Everything else (most of brain cells) was treated as mere background infrastructure. That framing was wrong… and it cost the field decades. #BCI #NeuroTech #Neuroscience

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#accident #intelligence #Neuroscience

Down on your luck? How behavioural neuroscience could help The latest research suggests there’s far more to good fortune than mere accident

Down on your luck? How behavioural neuroscience could help #Science #HealthandMedicine #MentalHealth #Neuroscience #BehavioralScience

www.theguardian.com/science/2026/mar/29/down...

Objectless awareness practices from Buddhist (zazen, shikantaza, objectless shamatha), Christian apophatic (Centering Prayer, hesychasm), Kabbalist (hitbodedut, devekut, ayin meditation), Hindu (nirvikalpa samādhi), entheogenic (shamanic psilocybin, ayahuasca, and related dissociative traditions), and Sufi (muraqaba) traditions act as reconfigurations of attractor landscapes as dynamical systems within the Default Mode Network; resonating quasi-stable intrinsic 'harmonic' modes.

Objectless awareness practices acting on the Default Mode Network; resonate quasi-stable intrinsic 'harmonic' modes.

#meditation #prayer #mystical #practices #entheogen #DMN #fractal #attractors #resonance #philosophy #theology #anthropology #psychology #neuroscience #hypothesis

Seeking #neuroscience #academics willing to seriously consider active theory currently under testing as my capabilities allow.

I've looked for over 40 years. So if you know someone, please send them my way.

Theory here:
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Meta TRIBE v2 Builds a Digital Brain Twin That Predicts Neural Responses Without Scanning You Predicting how your brain fires in response to a film clip, a podcast, or a block of text, without running a single scan on you, is what TRIBE v2 actually does. Meta’s FAIR team released this tri-modal foundation

🧠 Meta's TRIBE v2 predicts brain fMRI responses to video, audio & text zero-shot, no scan needed. 70x resolution. 451h training data. Open source now. #MetaAI #AIResearch #Neuroscience #AdwaitX [271 chars]

Sleep, Stress, and Your IQ

Sleep, Stress, and Your IQ: How Everyday Habits Quietly Shape Your Cognitive Performance

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#sleep #stre #iq #intelligence #brain #cortisol #memory #health #Hippocampus #neuroscience #psychiatry #nutrition #caffeine #meditation #performance #neurobiological #iqtest

Birdwatching Could Reverse Ageing and Boosts Cognitive Health A scientific study suggests that the focused attention, sharp perception, and detailed memory required to become an expert birdwatcher don’t just make you a better birder they can literally reshape your brain in ways that may protect cognitive function well into old age. Conducted by researchers at Toronto’s Baycrest Academy for Research and Education (part of the Rotman Research Institute), the study compared the brains of 29 expert birders with those of 29 matched novices.

New research reveals birdwatching may reverse brain ageing by reshaping areas for attention, memory, and perception. #neuroscience #aging #health #rathbiotaclan

PARIETAL LOBE
-Functions, Role & Clinical Importance
-Sensory Integration & Spatial Awareness Center
#Parietallobe #iprkashmishra #neurologist #brainhealth #neuroscience

Ad Infinitum

#physics #Philosophy #science #nde #maths #neuroscience #consciousness #Atheism #irreligious #panpsychism

A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game 'Doom' The technology could one day help researchers develop drugs and tailor treatments to individual patients

A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game 'Doom': The technology could one day help researchers develop drugs and tailor treatments to individual patients @SmithsonianMag #Neuroscience #ArtificialIntelligence #BrainTech #Gaming #VideoGames

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Your brain literally washes itself while you sleep. 🧠 Cells shrink by 60% to flush out toxins. Sleep isn't rest; it's deep cleaning. #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Mindset #Motivation #GrowthMindset #Neuroscience #SleepHealth #BrainPower #Biohacking #Wellness

Gut Cells May Be Training Immune Troops to Attack the Brain Key Takeaways Recent research shows that intestinal epithelial cells in multiple sclerosis patients activate immune functions, leading to brain-related

Gut Cells May Be Training Immune Troops to Attack the Brain #Science #HealthandMedicine #InfectiousDiseases #ImmuneSystem #GutHealth #Neuroscience

scienceblog.com/gut-cells-may-be-trainin...

Empirical framework: data and modelling resources (white blocks) and analytical methods (grey blocks).

A hierarchy of spatial predictions across human visual cortex during natural vision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03... #neuroscience

Empirical framework: data and modelling resources (white blocks) and analytical methods (grey blocks).

A hierarchy of spatial predictions across human visual cortex during natural vision www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #neuroscience

German et al. (2026) show that the adult murine hippocampus can recover function after cryopreservation by vitrification! A leap for neuroscience! #Cryopreservation #Neuroscience Check out the video.

youtu.be/iU-3eLXkNxA

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Warning: your brain "dies" every night, so fix the crash tonight. Watch here 🧠👇 https://youtu.be/j6qjHtKsCVQ?si=hy0a3F3w2xb1u6wb #SleepScience #BrainHealth #Neuroscience #Wellness

🧠AI breakthrough!

Adversarial AI just revealed how brain injuries disrupt consciousness (basal ganglia pathway & excess cortical inhibition) — & found a promising treatment: high-frequency subthalamic stimulation. Research attached.

Share your thoughts, good use of AI?

#Neuroscience

How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom Cortical Labs says the stunt points toward a new kind of low-power computing—and perhaps a new way to study neurological drugs

How human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom #Science #Neuroscience #Neurobiology #BrainChip #ArtificialIntelligence

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-human-neuron...

Astuce ADHD : c'est plus facile de boire du café au bureau quand vous ne laissez pas votre tasse à la cuisine !

#Optimisation #x10Productivity #Neuroscience

🗽 Understanding #FreeWill – What does it really mean to make a #freechoice? 💪

📽 youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 philosophies.de/index.php/20...

#PhilosophyOfMind #CapacityToAct #Determinism #CognitiveScience #Neuroscience #DecisionMaking #Zoomposium #FreeWill #DanielDennet

#ComplexSystems #MachineLearning #Neuroscience #InformationTheory #CRTI 🖖

This is not just #neuroscience.
The same failure mode appears in ecology, economics, and organizations —
whenever projections are treated as causal explanations.🖖