# Awareness Score > A daily check-in for attention, memory and focus, and what the research says about them ## Posts - [Kinesthetic Awareness: How Your Body Knows Where It Is](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/kinesthetic-awareness/): 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 the training trials found. - [Heightened Awareness: Alert, On Edge, or Something Else?](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/heightened-awareness/): 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 as the NHS and WHO describe it. - [Depression Screening: What the PHQ-9 Can and Cannot Tell](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/depression-screening/): 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 what happens next. - [Mental Wellbeing: The Five Ways and What the Evidence Says](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/mental-wellbeing-five-ways/): 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, what people with low mood say about the advice, and when to talk to a doctor. - [Mental Health: What the WHO Means and How It Is Measured](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/mental-health/): 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 is measured. - [Anxiety Attack or Panic Attack? What the Two Terms Mean](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/anxiety-attack/): 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 do in the moment, and where help is. - [Signs of Anxiety: What the NHS, NIMH and WHO Actually List](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/signs-of-anxiety/): 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 report noticing first, and where help is. - [Signs of Depression: What the NHS, NIMH and WHO List](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/signs-of-depression/): 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, what people report noticing first, and where help is. - [Mental Health Counselor, Psychologist or Psychiatrist?](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/psychologist-psychiatrist-counsellor-difference/): 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 what 51 forum comments report. - [Do Brain Training Apps Work? What the Trials Actually Found](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/brain-training-apps/): 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 and what it did not. - [Sleep and Memory: What One Short Night Does, by the Numbers](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/sleep-and-memory/): 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 people who sleep badly report, and when to see a doctor. - [Stress and Memory Loss: What Studies Show and What Recovers](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/stress-and-memory-loss/): 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 eased, what people with anxiety report, and when to see a doctor. - [Men's Mental Health Awareness Month: June, November or Both?](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/mens-mental-health-awareness-month/): When men's mental health awareness month falls, who runs the June and November observances, their 2026 themes, the official suicide figures on men, the signs NIMH lists, and where help is. - [World Mental Health Day: The Date, the Themes, the Numbers](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/world-mental-health-day/): When World Mental Health Day falls, who started it, the 2026 theme, every theme since 2017 as WFMH and the WHO each word it, the WHO's own figures, India's helpline, and where help is. - [Mental Health Awareness Month: When It Is and What to Do](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/mental-health-awareness-month/): When mental health awareness month falls in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and India, the 2026 themes from each organiser, the survey numbers they publish, what people say about the month, and where help is. - [Reaction Time: What Is Typical and What Moves It in a Day](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/reaction-time/): Typical simple reaction time by age band from a 1,469 person study, what sleep loss, caffeine, alcohol, exercise and time of day do with the effect sizes, what 40 self testers report, and how to make your own checks comparable. - [Self Consciousness: Two Meanings and the Spotlight Effect](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/self-consciousness/): The everyday feeling and the 1975 scale's three subscales side by side, the spotlight effect figures as quoted from the 2000 paper, what three studies found lowers self focus, the NHS and NIMH wording on social anxiety disorder, and what 46 forum comments report. - [Awareness Meaning: Why Half the Room Misses the Gorilla](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/awareness-meaning/): The dictionary senses, the three attention networks, the philosophers' layers, and five experiments from 1975 to 2013 showing how much we miss, with what 517 forum comments report about the gorilla video. - [Daily Cognitive Check-In: What Five Minutes Can Tell You](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/daily-cognitive-check-in/): What a five minute check-in can and cannot tell you: the retest reliability figures for trail making, reaction time and a nine test battery, the practice effect sizes, what sleep and time of day do, and what five forum threads from 2026 report. - [Self Awareness Meaning: What Psychologists Actually Measure](https://awarenessscore.com/articles/self-awareness-meaning/): The plain sense, then the psychology: Duval and Wicklund's 1972 theory, the 1975 Self-Consciousness Scale, reflection versus rumination, Eurich's internal and external split, and what four forum threads report. 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