Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies conducted by Dr. David Ludwig demonstrate that sugar consumption activates the same neurological addiction pathways as heroin

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Individuals with schizophrenic biological relatives exhibit enhanced lateral thinking and creative cognition

The evoked potential lag time between acoustic stimulus contact and auditory cortex processing is approximately 350 milliseconds

Acoustic threat signals travel from the ear to the human amygdala within 11 to 12 milliseconds

During high novelty, hippocampal sharp-wave ripples scan memories and backtrack to the earliest, highest-weighted Bayesian priors

The ability to enter trance mediumship states and hear external voices is a trainable cognitive skill

The human brain stores unresolved problems in a rapid-access neural network to reduce predictive uncertainty

In cognitive science, an affordance is defined as an actionable property or opportunity for action provided by an object

Conscious cognitive processing of an auditory stimulus occurs approximately one second after initial physical sound detection

Vision researcher J.J. Gibson formulated the theory of affordances in the 1970s

Nutritional restoration and clinical treatment in patients with anorexia nervosa restore previously deteriorated brain systems on neuroimaging scans

In ENIGMA Consortium neuroimaging studies, eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa demonstrated the largest observed effect on brain tissue among studied psychiatric conditions

Mental rehearsal requires visualizing the step-by-step execution of daily actionable tasks from an internal first-person perspective rather than focusing solely on the end goal

Visualizing the completion of upcoming daily tasks generates emotional states that counteract the human inclination toward procrastination

The human brain possesses a default mode network that automatically ruminates on past unpleasant experiences

Hal Elrod printed an image of the Atlantic City Marathon finish line to mentally rehearse crossing the ribbon from an internal first-person bodily perspective

The default mode network of the brain is active when an individual is ruminating or not engaged in an active task

Affirming passive statements that contradict personal reality, such as repeating wealth affirmations while broke, generates internal cognitive dissonance

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex mediates executive function, strategic planning, and the cognitive reframing of difficult experiences

The 10-Day Detox diet eliminates gluten, dairy, sugar, and ultra-processed food

Eliminating starch, sugar, and ultra-processed foods from the diet triggers a rapid drop in circulating insulin levels