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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\xa0

• \u201cWhy Watching Decluttering Videos Feels So Good\u201d by Abby Alten Schwartz
  • https://www.wired.com/story/why-watching-decluttering-videos-feels-so-good/
• \u201cHow to Stop Doomscrolling\u2014With Psychology\u201d by Kenneth R. Rosen
  • https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-doomscrolling-psychology-social-media-fomo/

Never Forget Faces

• \u201cI Never Forget a Face: The Science of Super-Recognizers' Amazing Feat of Recognition\u201d by Leah Thayer
  • https://neurosciencenews.com/super-recognizers-visual-learning-21379/
• \u2018They never forget a face. Research delves into how \u2018super-recognizers\u2019 can do this.\u201d By Marlene Cimons
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/super-recognizer-facial-memory/2021/10/29/4cf80caa-2159-11ec-b3d6-8cdebe60d3e2_story.html

Paralysis Neurons

• \u201cNine Paralysis Patients Walk Again Thanks to Newly Identified Neurons\u201d by Ruairi J Mackenzie
  • https://www.technologynetworks.com/neuroscience/news/nine-paralysis-patients-walk-again-thanks-to-newly-identified-neurons-367467
• \u201cThe neurons that restore walking after paralysis\u201d by Claudia Kathe et al.
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05385-7

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