Today we discuss how watching cleaning or decluttering videos affects our mental state, the abilities of super-recognizers, and a recent discovery into how manipulating the neurons in paralysis patients might be able to improve their mobility.

Decluttering the Mind

“Why Watching Decluttering Videos Feels So Good” by Abby Alten Schwartz
- https://www.wired.com/story/why-watching-decluttering-videos-feels-so-good/
“How to Stop Doomscrolling—With Psychology” by Kenneth R. Rosen
- https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-psychology-social-media-fomo/

Never Forget Faces

“I Never Forget a Face: The Science of Super-Recognizers' Amazing Feat of Recognition” by Leah Thayer
- https://neurosciencenews.com/super-recognizers-visual-learning-21379/
‘They never forget a face. Research delves into how ‘super-recognizers’ can do this.” By Marlene Cimons
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/super-recognizer-facial-memory/2021/10/29/4cf80caa-2159-11ec-b3d6-8cdebe60d3e2_story.html

Paralysis Neurons

“Nine Paralysis Patients Walk Again Thanks to Newly Identified Neurons” by Ruairi J Mackenzie
- https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/nine-paralysis-patients-walk-again-thanks-to-newly-identified-neurons-367467
“The neurons that restore walking after paralysis” by Claudia Kathe et al.
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05385-7

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