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Strategies for Better Heart-Brain Communication

Solara Mental Health

Laughter also loosens blood vessels and can lower signs of aging within them. Human studies have even shown intranasal oxytocin to stimulate the vagus nerve and improve mental stress test scores. We tend to either focus on either our mental health or our physical health, typically not both at the same time.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. One of the strange things about being a professor is that we get older, but our students stay the same age.

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