Reading Your Brain: A Guide to How the EEG Works
From diagnosing epilepsy to powering brain-computer interfaces, the EEG has shaped more than a century of neuroscience and clinical medicine. The central questions are what we are actually measuring and how we make sense of the signal.
Resilience and Heart Rate Variability: How the Body Learns to Weather Repeated Stress
Executive Summary Two patients can face the same pressure and walk away in very different shapes, and a recent study from Mainz, Germany, helps explain part of that difference at the level of the heart. Rösner and colleagues (2026) tracked how the autonomic nervous system responds to the same laboratory stressor when it is repeated over several weeks, and then asked whether more resilient people exhibit a healthier physiological pattern over time. Their answer was encouraging
Where Does Consciousness Begin?
Training programs teach, rightly, that the outer brain layer drives language, planning, and voluntary reports. That does not settle where felt experience begins.
Neurofeedback Strengthens Executive Function in Children with ADHD
For many children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the central struggle is not simply paying attention but regulating thought and behavior.
The Willpower Myth
The idea that willpower is a finite mental fuel, burned up by each act of self-discipline and replenished by rest or sugar, is one of the most widely believed myths in psychology.
Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Biofeedback for Type 2 Diabetes Patients
Clients should not chase every glucose peak, but rather turn patterns into safe, psychologically informed decisions. Behavioral health clinicians have a particular contribution to make. They can help clients receive sensor data as feedback rather than surveillance, especially when shame, perfectionism, disordered eating, or diabetes distress are already in the room.