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The article discusses how neural activity in daughters aligns with their mothers during observed emotional conversations, and how greater alignment is associated with fewer emotional difficulties in the children. It highlights brain-to-brain synchronization as a potential mechanism by which family emotional environments shape early mental health.

This topic is of interest to psychology enthusiasts because it links observable family dynamics with measurable neural processes and child outcomes, suggesting pathways by which everyday interactions influence development.

Article Title: Neural synchrony between mothers and daughters linked to better mental health

Link to PsyPost Article: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.psypost.org/how-children-absorb-emotional-health-by-syncing-brain-waves-with-their-mothers/

#neuralynchrony #motherdaughter #emotionaldevelopment #psychology #brainwaves #functionalnearinfraredspectroscopy #childmentalhealth #familydynamics #socialcognition #developmentalpsychology

TFF - Teacher From Finland May 29

Psychological development in adolescence is the topic of my latest video.
https://youtu.be/EzZNcqd3wug
#psychology #development #developmentalpsychology #adolescence #teenage #teenmind #teen

Adolescence | Developmental Psychology

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TFF - Teacher From Finland May 23

Stages of psychological development: childhood.
https://youtu.be/Qq2EhhWuiSA
#psychology #development #developmentalpsychology #childhood #video #lecture #course

Childhood development | Psychology

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE May 18

The brief highlights a foundational link between human evolution and lateralized behavior, illustrating how shifts in locomotion and brain development may shape handedness. For clinicians and allied mental health professionals, this connection underscores the potential roots of motor-cognitive asymmetries and their relevance to habit formation, learning, and early development.

Article Title: Scientists think they’ve cracked the mystery of human right-handedness

Link to Science Daily Mind-Brain News: https://nolinkpreview.com/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260517211429.htm

#handedness #neuroscience #evolution #lateralization #cognition #developmentalpsychology #mentalhealth #neurodevelopment #braingrowth #occupationaltherapy

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Léo Varnet Apr 21

I'm very proud to be listed as a co-author on this newly published paper --although most of the hard work was done by my co-authors Caterina Marino and Judit Gervain. In "Singing to the newborn brain uncovers early traces of specialized neural networks" we analyzed the neural activity of infants in response to #speech, #songs, and #humming using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. The results are available #openaccess in Communications Psychology
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-026-00451-6
#developmentalpsychology #language #psycholinguistics #speech

TFF - Teacher From Finland Apr 10

My latest psychology video is about developing the Self, and the theory of mind
#developmentalpsychology #psychology #developmental #development #self #mind #video
https://youtu.be/NLtJG8AQ4pE

Developing the Self and the Theory of Mind | Psychology

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Psychotherapy Commission ACPE Mar 27

The article analyzes a large body of longitudinal studies to examine how digital media, especially social media, relates to various developmental outcomes in children and adolescents. Findings indicate consistent associations between higher social media use and poorer mental health and social-emotional development, with mixed results for other media like video games.

The topic is of interest to psychology readers because it synthesizes long-term data across diverse populations to map direction and scope of media-related developmental effects, highlighting patterns that cross individual studies and informing considerations about youth well-being and digital environments.

Article Title: Massive analysis of longitudinal data links social media to poorer youth mental health

Link to PsyPost Article: https://www.psypost dot org/massive-analysis-of-longitudinal-data-links-social-media-to-poorer-youth-mental-health/

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#digitalmedia #youthmentalhealth #longitudinalresearch #socialmedia #developmentalpsychology

Anti-Mentalist Consciousness Dec 9

Why I Had to Call It “The Zero Point of Narcissism” To understand the “Zero Point,” you must first understand the edifice it confronts. Kohut’s framework is elegant and powerful. It explains so much about our lifelong hunger for validation, our crushing experiences of narcissistic injury, and our fragile self-esteem. #Amirroring #Aphantasia #DevelopmentalPsychology #Consciousness #Autopoiesis #ZeroPointOfNarcissism https://cristinagherghel.substack.com/p/why-i-had-to-call-it-the-zero-point

Why I Had to Call It “The Zero Point of Narcissism”

If you’ve come across my last research paper published on 8th of December 2025, the title likely caught your eye—or raised your eyebrow.

The Neurophilosophy Report of an Aphantasic Researcher

Anti-Mentalist Consciousness Dec 8

What if a foundational piece of developmental psychology is based on a blind spot?
For decades, the field has operated on a core, unchallenged axiom: that every human self is built through the mirror of another's gaze and emotion. But what happens when that mirror is absent from the very beginning—not broken, but never held up? #Amirroring #Aphantasia #DevelopmentalPsychology #Consciousness #Autopoiesis #ZeroPointOfNarcissism https://zenodo.org/records/17857386

The Zero Point of Narcissism: On the Conditional Nature of Panmodal Aphantasia as an Autopoietic Outcome of Amirroring

The infant does not seek reflection. The capacity to seek reflection—and the subsequent feeling of its lack—is a psychobiological program installed only after reflection itself has been provided. Teleology is nurture, not nature. This research paper presents a fundamental expansion of developmental psychology by defining and mapping a previously unrecognized trajectory of human consciousness: the Autopoietic Pathway. It introduces Amirroring—the absolute, null provision of social-emotional mirroring during the critical prenatal-to-age-two window—as a discrete developmental condition. The work provides a new taxonomy of relational input (Mirroring, Distorted Mirroring, Anti-Mirroring, Amirroring) to formally distinguish this state from trauma, neglect, or distortion. The paper details the autopoietic algorithm of development in the absence of relational data, leading to the Non-Instantiation of the Freudian Ego. It establishes Panmodal Aphantasia—the systemic absence of voluntary mental imagery across all sensory modalities—not as a random neurological trait but as a Third Etiological Category: a developmentally conditional outcome. This finding challenges the congenital/acquired binary in current aphantasia research. The architectural result is the Un-Buffered Self: a consciousness characterized by direct reality-testing, integrity-based moral reasoning, an immunity to learned helplessness, and a Zero Point of Narcissism. By critiquing the field’s Adultomorphic Bias, this work maps a coherent non-mirrored neurodevelopmental trajectory with profound implications for theory of mind, attachment theory, and neurodiversity. The model warns of clinical iatrogenesis when standard therapeutic frameworks, built on the mirroring axiom, are applied to this population. Ultimately, this is not a theory of trauma, deficit, or adaptation. It is an Ontology of Creation—a formal account of a different human genesis, built in the absolute, generative absence of the reflective Other. Nota Bene This work builds upon the foundation laid in the author's previous thesis, which first defined Panmodal Aphantasia: Aphantasia Is Not an Advantage in Long-Term Abuse: On the Trauma of Fleshbacks and the Myth of Coping and Defense Mechanisms

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Protyus A. Gendher Sep 29, 2025

Download it immediately! #free #freeapp #appstore #playstore #resource #family #parenting #generationaltrauma #fmri #science #psychology #development #developmentalpsychology

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Toxicity Toolkit – Points to Ponder 29 – More Happy Child

The author shares a transformative experience using “The Happy Child,” which significantly improved their relationship with their child. Through shared lessons, they process trauma, dis…

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