Tag: anxiety
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Hyperfocus and the Brain’s Salience System
What is hyperfocus and why does it happen? How dopamine, salience, and the ADHD brain’s reward system drive intense concentration — and what neuroscience actually knows. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Hyper-Reactivity and Social Aggression
Hyper-reactivity and social aggression surged in the early 2020s. Explore the psychology, neuroscience, and social forces behind why people became so reactive — and what it costs us. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The First Generation of Self-Observers
How therapeutic culture, self-help publishing, and early internet shaped the first generation raised to examine their own psychology — and what that produced. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Age of Hyper-Self Awareness
The age of hyper-self awareness — what psychology and neuroscience reveal about why self-monitoring feels rewarding, its cultural roots, and its hidden costs. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Emotional Noise Inside Closed Rooms
The psychology and neuroscience of pandemic isolation: how lockdowns amplified loneliness, distorted time perception, fueled doomscrolling, strained relationships, and revealed the importance of human connection and resilience. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Body Becomes the Battlefield
Explore how social media, psychology, and culture converged in the 2010s to intensify body image struggles—and what science reveals about why the body became the battlefield. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
