When You’re the One Holding Everyone: A Different Gap
What an AI companion is and isn’t. How gentle, always-available support can fill a specific kind of quiet gap without replacing human connection.
11
Jul
Posts by Auto Train Brain
11
Jul
Fifty Years of SMR Training: A Careful Look at the Evidence
The research history of sensorimotor rhythm neurofeedback, from Sterman’s original cat studies to modern meta-analyses, without the hype.
11
Jul
Family Road Trips With an ADHD Child: A Regulation Playbook
A regulation playbook for US families driving long distances with an ADHD kid. What to pack, when to stop, and what really prevents backseat chaos.
10
Jul
The 3am Wake-Up: What to Do Instead of Doom-Scrolling
A gentle, science-informed guide to the middle-of-the-night wake-up — why it happens, what tends to help, and what to do instead of picking up the phone.
10
Jul
Beyond HRV: What EEG Tracking Adds to Your Health Stack
For self-quantifiers already tracking HRV, sleep, and glucose, here is what direct brain data adds that inferred metrics cannot.
10
Jul
Camp-Week Meltdowns: Helping Autistic Kids Recover
After a full week of summer camp, autistic kids often unravel. What US parents can do on Friday to protect the weekend and the next week.
09
Jul
The Mental Tab No One Sees You Carrying
Naming the invisible cognitive labor of running a household and caring for others — and why simply seeing it counts as a first act of care for yourself.
09
Jul
Alpha Waves at Work: The Focused-Relaxed State on EEG
A primer on what alpha waves actually do in the brain during focused work, and why the popular narrative gets the science partly wrong.
09
Jul
Video Games and the ADHD Brain: What Actually Helps
What research says about video games and the ADHD brain, and how US parents can set limits that hold without daily fights.
08
Jul
Why You Walk Into Rooms and Forget: A Kinder Look
A compassionate look at brain fog and depleted attention — why you forget mid-sentence, mid-room, mid-thought, and what actually helps.