by Yvonne Groen

On brain health of queenagers: a life phase of vulnerability and transformation

“Queenager” is a more positive term for middle-aged women who are in perimenopause. The majority of these women is dealing with brain symptoms, such as brain fog, mental fatigue, mood swings, and sleep disturbances. This blog post explores the mental vulnerabilities of queenagers and shares lifestyle strategies based on the work by neuroscientist and nutritioner Lisa Mosconi. What if we viewed perimenopause not as a time of decline, but as an opportunity to consciously invest in women’s brain health?

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 by Stefanie Enriquez-Geppert

Brain Data Leak Out: How Consumer Neurotech Puts Mental Privacy at Risk

When EEG data from famous top athletes were leaked from a “wellness” headband, it revealed how easily our brain signals can slip into systems of extraction and surveillance. While neurotechnology in academica is tightly regulated, consumer neurotech often escapes scrutiny. In this blog post neuroscientist Dr. Enriquez-Geppert argues that neuroliteratacy is essential in protecting our “cognitive liberty” and she actually practices what she preaches by informing the Mindwise readership on the latest developments in her field.

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 by Leandros Kavadias

The rise of the schooled society: An empirical investigation of the centrality of schooling and its societal effects

Education increases people’s chances on the labor market and their position in society. But what if it also contributes to inequality, as well as to wider acceptance of inequality? In this blog, Leandros Kavadias describes his recently completed PhD research on the schooled society and its effects.

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 by Tara Scheer

Will the kids be alright? Deteriorating mental health, attempted solutions, and misconceptions

The mental health of children and adolescents has increasingly garnered attention in popular culture. Titles such as Johnathan Haidt’s book The Anxious Generation (Haidt, 2024), Netflix’s series Adolescence, and the documentary The Social Dilemma sparked much conversation. The topic has also gained academic interest, with researchers referring to an ongoing youth mental health “crisis” (Fonagy, […]

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 by Rinske Vermeij

Excavating the Heymans Cube – How early personality science can speak to the present.

Early theories aren’t relics – they’re resources that can still be relevant today. In this post, Rinske Vermeij describes her search for original copies of the near-forgotten Heymans Cube, a century-old personality model. What she found was a remarkably clear, comprehensive view of human personality – ideas that deserved to be made accessible for modern audiences. This post is a reminder that the old theories buried under the new can still be of value, worth excavating.

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 by Jadwiga Michlewicz

The double empathy problem gives autistic people a voice

Autistic people are often labelled as “mind-blind” of incapable of empathy, however this assumption centres the perspectives of neurotypical people. In this blog post Psychology student Jadwiga Michlewicz explains that this is a one-sided view of autism. She discovered that according to the double empathy problem, communication problems between different neurotypes result from mutual misunderstanding and are a shared responsibility for those with and without autism.

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