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Neuroplasticity and Addiction: Understanding Brain Rewiring During Substance Use and Recovery
Aug. 2, 2025 Neuroplasticity, the brain's ability to reorganize and form new neural connections, plays a critical role in understanding...


Technostress and time spent online. A cross-cultural comparison for teachers and students
Aug. 2, 2025 Introduction: Research shows that ICT is beneficial for academics and students, aiding in overcoming distance barriers,...


From Marx to the classroom: Understanding teacher alienation in policy contexts
Aug. 1, 2025 This article examines the phenomenon of teacher alienation through the lens of Marxist theory, exploring how capitalist and...


The Concept of Alienation and Alienation in Organizations
Aug. 1, 2025 Although the concept of alienation has been studied in the literature for years, it is a topic that has not lost its...


Twenty-first century alienation and health: a research agenda
Aug. 1, 2025 Alienation has been used as a crucial concept to describe the negative psychosocial impacts that stem from the ways...


Between Depression and Alienation: Burnout as a Translator Category for Critical Theories
Liviu Poenaru, Aug. 1, 2025 The horizon of critical theories and their target audience (i.e., the subjects exposed to social suffering)...


Deep Learning Characterizes Depression and Suicidal Ideation from Eye Movements
July 20, 2025 Identifying physiological and behavioral markers for mental health conditions is a longstanding challenge in psychiatry....


On the Interplay of Epigenetics, ADHD and Digital Media Usage: An Adaptive Dynamical System Modelling Approach
July 20, 2025 This article provides a computational analysis of the behavioural effects of ADHD and its epigenetic factors including the...


Molecular and Neurobiological Imbalance from the Use of Technological Devices During Early Child Development Stages
July 20, 2025 Background/Objectives Digital technologies have become increasingly integrated into the daily lives of children and...


FRONT. SOCIOL.: Testing hypotheses about the harm that capitalism causes to the mind and brain: a theoretical framework for neuroscience research
July 20, 2025 In this paper, we will attempt to outline the key ideas of a theoretical framework for neuroscience research that reflects...


NATURE: Mild internet use is associated with epigenetic alterations of key neurotransmission genes in salivary DNA of young university students
July 20, 2025 The potentially problematic use of the Internet is a growing concern worldwide, which causes and consequences are not...


Modeling Bulimia Nervosa in the Digital Age: The Role of Social Media
July 20, 2025 Globalization has fundamentally reshaped societal dynamics, influencing how individuals interact and perceive themselves...


Algorithmic Addiction by Design: Big Tech's Leverage of Dark Patterns to Maintain Market Dominance and its Challenge for Content Moderation
July 20, 2025 Today's largest technology corporations, especially ones with consumer-facing products such as social media platforms, use...


Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI
July 13, 2025 At least since Francis Bacon, the slogan 'knowledge is power' has been used to capture the relationship between...


Expressing stigma and inappropriate responses prevents LLMs from safely replacing mental health providers
July 13, 2025 Should a large language model (LLM) be used as a therapist? In this paper, we investigate the use of LLMs to replace ...


Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
July 12, 2025 This paper explores the growing presence of emotionally responsive artificial intelligence through a critical and...


Social Media Bot Detection Research: Review of Literature
July 12, 2025 This study presents a review of research on social media bot detection. Social media bots are used by political and...


Addictive Screen Use Trajectories and Suicidal Behaviors, Suicidal Ideation, and Mental Health in US Youths
July 12, 2025 Key Points Question Are addictive screen use trajectories associated with suicidal behaviors, suicidal ideation, and...


Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence
July 12, 2025 Key Points Question Are there within-person associations between social media use (time) and depressive symptoms across...


Suicides in Adolescents—An Evolutionary Approach Based on Epigenetic Thinking
June 12, 2025 Suicide in adolescents has been known since ancient times. This vulnerable period of life is characterized by a bundle of...
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