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Forgetting a painful memory on purpose has been a dream as old as memory itself. Since antiquity, humanity has sought in forgetfulness a way to ease its inner wounds. In Greek mythology, the souls descending into the Underworld would drink the waters of the river Lethe to erase their memories…
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Astrocytes: The hidden architects of sleep
Before morality: The natural roots of altruism
Can psychedelics heal the mind?
Thinking Otherwise
For a long time marginalized or dismissed as mere cliché, over-efficiency—whether manifesting as high intellectual potential (HIP) or very high intellectual potential (VHIP)—is now receiving renewed scientific attention. Recent research in cognitive neuroscience, neuro-psychoanalysis and clinical psychology converge to show…
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NeuroTales
His name is A.D., 59 years old. A right-handed man with no remarkable medical history, fully autonomous, no psychiatric scars or developmental…