Eleanor Maguire, who died 4 January at age 54, pioneered the famous London taxi-driver study and naturalistic approaches for studying spatial and episodic memory in people.

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It’s hard to describe what it feels like to be a GP. Sitting in a room alone, with patients rotating in and out, tackling a never-ending list—there’s no space to breathe. It can be relentless.

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A dream theory that deviates from Mark Solms/S. Freud is proposed by Erik Hoel. Importantly, his version includes random loosening of the over-fitted daily experiences to improve the generalizability of learning.

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I just learned the very sad news that Eleanor Maguire passed away. It is very unlikely that I would be where I am if it wasn't for the work that she did since the early 2000s. She was a real trailblazer in the cognitive neuroscience of autobiographical memory, and conducted some (1/n)

"It is right to ask why a feminist psychiatry is needed when all patients should surely be treated according to scientific evidence. Unfortunately, that evidence base is skewed too." My review of @suzypuss.bsky.social's Out of Her Mind @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Insurance Company Annoyed Customer Doesn’t Realize They Were Just Being Polite When They Said They’d Cover Healthcare Bills
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🇬🇧 New legislation being introduced today will require millers & flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with #FolicAcid from the end of 2026

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#FoodFortification #PublicHealth #SpinaBifida

Finding the Lindt-contains-Lead class-action lawsuit a bit of a downer. My commitment to supermarket-available 85% chocolate is now in direct conflict with my dedication to brain health... www.vice.com/en/article/l...

Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities and 100 times more fun.

Just picked up "The Centre Cannot Hold" by Elyn R. Saks