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Graham Mead
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Enactive Autistic Synaesthete

https://neurodissidence.org.uk/

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome

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Path Diversity
Tarpaulin overhanging my workstation in hazel coppice, 2006. Stack of wattle hurdles to the left.
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids
No, ancient Hebrew Slaves didn’t Build the Giza Pyramids
As for Israelites, there is no archeological evidence of them being in Egypt, much less being enslaved.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:14 AM
What is DCD? The underdiagnosed condition as common as ADHD

Charikleia Sinani

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What is DCD? The underdiagnosed condition as common as ADHD
New findings reveal how deeply developmental coordination disorder is impacting the lives of around 5 per cent of UK children
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November 11, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Overall, applied behaviour analysis receipt was associated with 30% higher odds of experiencing a mental health hospitalisation

Mental health outcomes associated with applied behaviour analysis in a US national sample of privately insured autistic youth

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November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Alterations of working memory in adults with sensorimotor disorders. Exploring embodied cognition: a retrospective cohort study

Julio Ernesto Pérez-Parra, Francia Restrepo-de-Mejía

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Alterations of working memory in adults with sensorimotor disorders.Exploringembodied cognition: a retrospective cohort study
This study is based on the embodied cognition dimension of third-generation cognitive models, which postulate that cognition is an embodied, extended, embedded, and enactive phenomenon (4E Theory)....
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November 10, 2025 at 7:09 PM
That sinking feeling you get when you start reading a new book on neurodiversity and it quotes Deepak Chopra approvingly in the preface.
Hopefully will improve.
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The prevalence of synaesthesia used to be thought as being “very, very, very rare” research now shows that “prevalence is at least 4.4%, with an equal ratio of men and women - so around 1 in 23 people at least.”

Julia Simner

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The Life Scientific - Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours - BBC Sounds
Professor Julia Simner tests Jim for synaesthesia with surprising results.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“The patient’s concrete society is itself the sick individual”: Review of Psychotherapy and Materialism, Part 1

Janna Graham

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“The patient’s concrete society is itself the sick individual”: Review of Psychotherapy and Materialism, Part 1 - Notes - e-flux
Janna Graham reviews Psychotherapy and Materialism: Essays by François Tosquelles and Jean Oury (2024), edited by Elena Vogman and Marlon Miguel. Part one of two.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies invites artists to participate in a new artist-in-residence program on the theme TROPISM.

Tropism: international open call

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Tropism: international open call - Announcements - e-flux
Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies invites artists to participate in a new artist-in-residence program.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Professor Julia Simner runs the Multisense lab at the University of Sussex. “In the studio she tests Jim to see if he might be a synaesthete or have aphantasia, which is the inability to view images in the mind’s eye.”

Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Life Scientific - Julia Simner on tasty words and hearing colours - BBC Sounds
Professor Julia Simner tests Jim for synaesthesia with surprising results.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“A conservative neurobiologist would put the number of senses at 10, but mainstream neurobiology accepts that our senses number 21, whilst radical neurobiologists put the number as high as 33”

Introduction to synaesthetics

Abou Farman

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Introduction to synaesthetics
Published in The Senses and Society (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2025)
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November 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Pre-Produced Self-Narratives in Social Media – An Arendtian Perspective

Imke von Maur, Katharina Zöpfl

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Pre-Produced Self-Narratives in Social Media – An Arendtian Perspective - Topoi
Building upon Hannah Arendt’s notions of acting and producing, and their implications for the public sphere, we introduce the concept of “pre-produced self-narratives”, arguing that the practice of se...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
To be ‘within and without’ – A trainee’s perspective of an intellectual and developmental disability consultation service

Yoon Kwon Choi, Melanie Johnston

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November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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"By understanding when and where critical genes are turned on during development, we can begin to uncover how disruptions in that process may lead to disorders like autism or schizophrenia."

#NeuroSky
#PsychSky

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Scientists complete first drafts of developing mammalian brain cell atlases
A global consortium of scientists has created the first and most detailed "developmental maps" of the mammalian brain (from mouse to human) to date, taking the first critical steps in unraveling the m...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“large-scale research shows that appropriate prescriptions for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medications are associated with much (25–41%) lower risks of subsequent criminal convictions”
New paper out today: "The Bell Tolls for Folk Psychology: Are Societies Ready for a Public Health Quarantine Model of Criminal Justice?" co-authored with Alan C. Logan and Susan Prescott. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue

Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Andrea Gambarotto

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Habit: a Hegelian-enactive dialogue - Synthese
Synthese - Enactive perspectives on habit reject mechanistic models and call attention to the neglect of this concept in computational approaches to the mind. Recent work has brought enactive views...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Open access book
Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual

Editors: Xabier E. Barandiaran, Arantza Etxeberria

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Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual
This open access book offers an innovative exploration of the concept of autonomy, extending beyond the traditional individualistic perspectives
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Maudsley Debate

This house believes that the global rise in diagnosed neurodivergence reflects an increased awareness of hitherto undiagnosed people.

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Maudsley Debates - 61st to 70th
The Maudsley Debates take place three times a year at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN). Topics generally focus on issues that have a direct impact on mental health…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Mud Epistemology: Gender, Metabolism, and Marx’s Unfinished Revolution

Antonia Majaca

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Mud Epistemology: Gender, Metabolism, and Marx’s Unfinished Revolution - Journal #157
Antonia Majaca on the contemporary legacy of Marx’s turn to metabolic-rift theory.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:10 AM