by Maryam El Banziqui | Mar 9, 2024 | Personality, Development & Social Life
Here’s a question that keeps me up at night: How do we become who we are? Not the short answer, “genes and environment.” I mean the real, messy, beautiful, confusing process. The moment a baby looks at their mother and smiles for the first time. The...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Mar 9, 2024 | The Brain, Cognition & Neuropsychology
Elliot’s story changed neuropsychology. And it’s where we’re starting today. His name is Elliot. In the 1980s, Elliot was a successful businessman, a good husband, a father. Then a brain tumour changed everything. Surgeons removed the tumour, along...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Mar 9, 2024 | Psychological Therapies
I want you to imagine something. You’re sitting in a room with a stranger. The room is quiet, maybe too quiet. There’s a box of tissues on a small table, placed there intentionally, because someone knew that people cry in this room. The stranger...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Mar 9, 2024 | Mental Health, Society & Behaviour Change
I want you to imagine two people. The first person is struggling. They can’t get out of bed. Their thoughts are a loop of self-criticism. They’ve stopped answering calls from friends. They’re barely eating. If you met them, you might think: This...
by Maryam El Banziqui | Mar 9, 2024 | Foundations of Psychology
We go through life watching people. We watch our parents argue, our friends fall in love, our colleagues crack under pressure. We watch strangers react with joy or rage on the evening news. And we always ask the same question: Why? Why did they do that? Why do I feel...
