Attention, memory and focus, checked against the research
What short cognitive tests can and cannot tell you, what moves attention, memory and reaction time from day to day, what the words people search for actually mean, and what the public health bodies list as signs and sources of help. Every page names its sources and the date they were checked. Nothing here is a diagnosis.
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Kinesthetic Awareness: How Your Body Knows Where It Is
What kinesthetic awareness is, how it differs from proprioception, the tests clinicians and researchers use, how it changes with age, the CDC falls figures and what…
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Heightened Awareness: Alert, On Edge, or Something Else?
What heightened awareness means, the research term for each state people call by that name, what Yerkes and Dodson really found, caffeine and attention, and hypervigilance…
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Depression Screening: What the PHQ-9 Can and Cannot Tell
What depression screening is, the questionnaires doctors use and who made them, how accurate the PHQ-9 is, why a website score is not a diagnosis, and…
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Mental Wellbeing: The Five Ways and What the Evidence Says
Where the Five Ways to Wellbeing came from, the evidence the 2008 report cited for each way beside a later study, what the list left out,…
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Mental Health: What the WHO Means and How It Is Measured
The WHO definition of mental health quoted, the difference between mental health, mental illness and a mental disorder, the continuum, the 2023 figures and how wellbeing…
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Anxiety Attack or Panic Attack? What the Two Terms Mean
What the NHS, NIMH, WHO and ICD-11 say about panic attacks, why none of them uses the phrase anxiety attack, how long attacks last, what to…
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Signs of Anxiety: What the NHS, NIMH and WHO Actually List
The NHS, NIMH and WHO lists of anxiety signs quoted side by side, the months long line that separates a disorder from ordinary worry, what people…
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Signs of Depression: What the NHS, NIMH and WHO List
The NHS, NIMH and WHO lists of depression signs quoted side by side, the two week line, how the signs differ in older adults and men,…
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Mental Health Counselor, Psychologist or Psychiatrist?
Counselor, counsellor, psychotherapist, psychologist, psychiatrist: training, what each may do, who regulates them in the US, UK and India, what a first appointment looks like, and…
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Do Brain Training Apps Work? What the Trials Actually Found
The trials, the two 2014 letters, the ACTIVE study at twenty years and the Lumosity case, set out in one cited table: what brain training improved…
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Sleep and Memory: What One Short Night Does, by the Numbers
What the sleep laboratories found about one lost night and a week of short ones: which kinds of thinking slip most, why people rarely notice, what…
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Stress and Memory Loss: What Studies Show and What Recovers
What 113 studies say stress does to learning and recall, with the effect sizes by timing, what long term stress studies show, what recovered when stress…