Podcast #26: Adam Gazzaley on Our Distracted Minds

Neurologist Adam Gazzaley discusses how the brain’s attentional system functions–or doesn’t–when buffeted by digital distraction.

By Mo Lotman | February 6, 2019 | Cognition, Health, Neurology, Podcasts, Psychology, Well-Being | ADHD, Aging, Anxiety, Attending, Attention, Attention Deficit, Boredom, Cognition, Concentration, Depression, Digital Devices, Distraction, Education, Empathy, Enhancement, Exercise, Filtering, Focus, Goals, Habit, Ignoring, Information, Information Foraging Theory, Interference, Marginal Value Theorem, Medicine, Meditation, Memory, Metacognition, Monotasking, Multitasking, Nature, Neurology, Perception, Plasticity, Prefrontal Cortex, Prescribable Video Game Treatment, Psychology, Smartphones, Suppression, The Brain, Therapy, Video Games

The Death of Natural Childbirth

The second part of a series on childbirth examines how natural birth has been systematically disabled, at the cost of bonding and health.

By David A. J. Reynolds | June 27, 2018 | Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Health, Medicine, Reproduction, Society, Well-Being | Ágnes Geréb, Amniotomy, Anesthesia, Asphyxia, Babies, Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Birthing, Caesarean Section, Childbirth, Children, Consumerism, Control, Demerol, Efficiency, Els Hendrix, Epidural, Finland, Forceps, Home-Birth, Hungary, Ignác Semmelweis, Infant Mortality, Institutionalized Birth, Interventionism, Irvine Loudon, Jacqueline Wolf, Jennifer Block, John Whitridge Williams, Kieran O’Driscoll, L.H. Lumey, Machines, Medicine, Michel Odent, Midwifery, Nature, Obstetrics, Oxytocin, Perfectionism, Pitocin, Pregnancy, Puerperal Fever, Rationalism, Sarah Buckley, Standardization, Taylorism, Technocentrism, The Netherlands, Twilight Sleep, UK, US, Western Medicine

The Attack on Natural Childbirth

Over the past century or so, the most natural and integral part of the human life-cycle—birth—has been systematically medicalized and institutionalized, at the expense of the body’s own wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | June 13, 2018 | Community, Culture, Ethics, Family, Health, Medicine, Reproduction, Society, Well-Being | Ágnes Geréb, Babies, Barbara Bridgman Perkins, Birthing, Childbirth, Children, Control, Efficiency, Hilary Marland, Home-Birth, Ina May Gaskin, Institutionalized Birth, Jennifer Block, L.H. Lumey, Machines, Maternity Care, Medicine, Midwifery, Nadine Edwards, Nature, Obstetrics, Oxytocin, Pathology, Physiology, Pregnancy, Rationalism, Repression, Standardization, Surgery, The Netherlands, Western Medicine

Podcast #15: David Greenfield on Internet Addiction

Psychiatrist, professor, and author David Greenfield, founder of the Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, was one of the first medical professionals to recognize and study the addictive qualities of the Internet. He explains what we know, what it means, and what can be done.

By Mo Lotman | January 17, 2018 | Cognition, Family, Health, Neurology, Podcasts, Psychology, Society, Well-Being | Addiction, Alienation, Behavior, Boot Camps, Boredom, China, Community, Creativity, Detox, Distracted Driving, Dopamine, DSM, Facebook, Food, Gambling, Gaming, Health Care, Heroin, Humanity, Impulse Control, Inequality, Internet, Medicine, Public Space, Self-Medication, Sex, smart phones, Social Disconnection, Social Media, Teens, Unhappiness, Variable Ratio Reinforcement Schedule, Variable Reward, Video Games

The Suicide Algorithm: Facebook’s Self-Appointed Role in Mental Health

Facebook’s invasive attempts to identify suicidal individuals, while collecting revenue from advertisers targeting them, may do more harm than good.

By Lucy Uprichard | June 28, 2017 | Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Health, Media, Prediction, Psychology | Advertising, AI, Algorithms, Anxiety, Artificial Intelligence, Care, Community, Depression, Facebook, Forums, Health Care, Insecurity, Intervention, Medicine, Mental Health, Profiling, Suicidal Ideation, Suicide, The Australian, The Guardian, Therapy, Trust, Vice

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