Our Cognitive Neuroscience articles explore how the brain works when it comes to habits, decision-making, and overcoming addictive behaviours. Created to support the Curb Your Addiction (CYA) App by Dr. Samantha Brooks, in partnership with Meaningful Paths, these resources bring cutting-edge neuroscience into practical, everyday tools for improving mental health and wellbeing.
Here, you’ll learn how dopamine, impulse control, self-regulation, and neural pathways influence behaviour — and how understanding these processes can help you break unhealthy patterns, build resilience, and live with greater freedom and self-awareness. For hands-on support, explore the CYA App in the resources within the Meaningful Paths App (iOS & Google Play) to combine neuroscience insights with reflective exercises and tools for sustainable wellbeing.
Image Reference: Photo by Jessi Pena on Unsplash Written and narrated by Dr. Samantha Brooks. The 19th Century American writer and poet Thomas Bailey Aldrich once famously said, ‘The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost anyone. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.’ Nero was the […]
Written and narrated by Dr. Samantha Brooks. We told ourselves at the start of January that we would give up smoking, eat more healthily, join a gym (and actually set foot on the treadmill!) and be a better person toward our loved-ones. With such a strong sense of will power at the beginning of the
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Heralding the start of a new year allows us to feel optimistic about fresh new beginnings, having reflected on the harsh lessons we all had to face last year. And perhaps the harshest lesson of all has been having to accept that nothing will ever be the same again. We can read the stories and
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Written and narrated by Dr. Samantha Brooks. THE CURB YOUR ADDICTION (CY-A) APP In partnership with the Meaningful Paths app to support will power training. Curb Your Addiction (C-Ya for short) is a computer-based, 15-minute game that can be played on any device (Smartphone, PC, Tablet). The game is very simple, but it’s effects on
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Written and narrated by Dr. Samantha Brooks. Impulsivity and compulsivity play a large role in neuropsychiatric research as they underpin many mental health disorders. Unfortunately, impulsive and compulsive thoughts and behaviours are also commonly observed throughout the festive period! Impulsivity is a natural tendency found in all animals that enables the quick avoidance of danger or
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Written by Therapist Sandy ElChaar.
