Devon Frye

4 days ago | psychologytoday.com | David Weitzner |Devon Frye

Source: Gantas Vaičiulėnas/PexelsThe AI era gives us a unique opportunity to reimagine the very act of thinking. As I demonstrate in my new book, Thinking Like A Human: The Power of Your Mind in the Age of AI, our cognitive powers are drawn from many sources. If you think like a human, you will always have irreplaceable value. If you only think algorithmically... well, AI is probably better than you in that narrow function.

1 week ago | psychologytoday.com | Steve Taylor Ph.D |Devon Frye

Source: flickr/Eric handsThe rise of artificial intelligence poses some important questions about human creativity. What is the source of creativity? Is it simply the result of cognitive patterns that can be reproduced by computer algorithms? Is it simply—as the psychologist Susan Blackmore has suggested—the result of memes that we absorb, and which form new combinations in our minds, so that every "new" creative work is in some way a variation of previous works?

1 week ago | psychologytoday.com | Marianna Pogosyan Ph.D |Devon Frye

The current fascination with dopamine may have something to do with its role in addiction. Dopamine is vital for scores of brain and body functions. Dopamine is key in reinforcement learning: it controls the windows when brain plasticity can occur. Meet the brain molecule of the moment: 4-(2-Aminoethyl)benzene-1,2-diol. You have been its beneficiary from birth. Lately, you might have seen it splashed across the headlines under its common name. Dopamine hits and fixes. Dopamine fasts and detoxes.

2 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | Tanya Cotler Ph.D |Devon Frye

Unspoken wounds often resurface in motherhood, linking past pain to present parenting. Trauma can be inherited biologically, shaping how we respond to stress as parents. Naming our pain—aloud or in writing—breaks cycles of shame and isolation. Healing happens while parenting, as we re-parent ourselves in real time. "It was never about weight… it was always about not being enough.”Jessi sat on the edge of my white boucle couch, her fingers twisting the sleeve of her cardigan.

2 weeks ago | psychologytoday.com | Devon Frye

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is primarily known for its inattentive, hyperactive, and impulsive symptoms. However, recent research and lived experience show that this is not the whole story. There are many traits of ADHD that most people don’t know about yet that are also often part of life with this neurotype. If you relate to these, it might be worth looking into ADHD. 1. Coffee makes you sleepy. In neurology, there is a concept called optimal arousal.