Humans are built for connection. Humans bargain on social connection not just for social development but for healthy brain development and better physical well being. Now even with it being a fact that we humans need to rely and need social connection for a lot, reports on loneliness are high . For example reports on loneliness have risen since the 2000s and have heightened even more since covid-19. Before covid 20-23 percent of adults reported being lonely and now it seems t

Kamrul Hassan ᵃ Fyruz Education Services, Dhaka, Bangladesh * Corresponding author: Kamrul Hassan, khassan0120@gmail.com ABSTRACT Study objective: To investigate how school communities can support long-term healthy lifestyle habits among adolescents in high-stress academic environments through a theory based intervention design. Design: Narrative literature review and theory-based intervention design. Setting: Secondary school and community environments. Participants:

Picture this: someone mentions "neuroscience" - your mind instantly jumps to glowing MRI images, tangled nerve maps, researchers with white lab coats working in laboratories. Feels like something out of a movie, right? Yet here’s the twist: those exact neurons firing while cramming for finals, doomscrolling past midnight, zoning out mid-lecture, sweating through speeches, picking up guitar tabs: that is neuroscience in its biological form. Not distant from everyday life, but

Abstract I investigate strategies for semantic decoding from minimal-channel, consumer-grade EEG systems. Using only four electrodes and 50–100 word stimuli, I evaluate convolutional architectures on two semantic tasks including emotional valence and part-of-speech discrimination (specifically, noun/verb classification). To address limited data, I introduce (1) a data amplification method based on short-time FFT snapshots and (2) an embedding-constrained EEG architecture that

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I would like to preface this by saying this blog post will touch on sensitive topics like suicide and self-harm. Please click off of this post if it is uncomfortable for you. What is Internet Gaming Disorder? The American Psychological Association (APA) considers Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) to be a disorder warranting more research and attention - but did not include it in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), citing insufficient evidence. The

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