MAZE Issue X

MAZE Issue X explores how psychology and neuroscience shape everyday experience: love, attraction, nostalgia, grief, and generational trauma; sleep, déjà vu, focus, and decision-making under pressure. We also spotlight cutting-edge research, therapies and tools, including breathwork, music, EMDR, AI-supported care, aphasia rehabilitation, and non-invasive liquid biopsy approaches to brain-cancer detection.

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We are a Psychology and Neuroscience Magazine based at the University of St Andrews. Our team is dedicated to raising the popularity of both academic and pop-scientific writing with articles and online content created by students and professionals alike. It offers students a chance to further their interests in Psychology and Neuroscience, get involved in writing and engage with other individuals in the field.

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We all know that feeling: after a long day at work, university, or school, when you have no more work… except jumping into bed and relaxing. Maybe with a book, some music, or most probably, a device. We call this time “me time”, a time to doomscroll or binge watch a TV show, thinking that we’re giving our minds and bodies a break after a long day. Using something that gives us a hit of dopamine makes us feel like we’re relaxed, but what is actually happening is quite literall

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The Keeper of Imagined Law: a discussion on imagination and creativity in OCD

Vivid imagination and certain types of mental abnormality are curious, but nonetheless, common bedfellows. In a number of conditions, aspects of heightened imagination have been long perceived as a sort of double edged sword, leading to both greater creativity and to Magical Thinking. In OCD this shows up as the belief that certain thoughts/behaviours exert direct causal effects over wider existential outcomes.

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