Forget the hype about AI "solving" human cognition, new research suggests unified models like Centaur are just overfitted "black boxes" that fail to understand basic instructions.

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Dr. Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School explores his leadership of global psychiatric epidemiology. His surveys across 30+ countries established frameworks that guide mental health policy ...

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Introduction Community support for individuals with mental health problems is a global public health issue. Poor mental health literacy and high levels of stigmatising attitudes among the general ...

Imagine starting your day with a quick, digestible summary of the most important tech conversations happening on Hacker News.

It is rare for a documentary to provoke a moral crisis before a single frame has streamed, but The Investigation of Lucy Letby is no ordinary retrospective. By unlocking confidential police archives ...

The field of psychology is not monolithic — it’s made up of different schools of thought, each with different assumptions ...

Here & Now ‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with cognitive scientist and podcaster Maya Shankar, author of “ The Other Side of Change: Who We Become When Life Makes Other Plans ,” about how we process ...

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