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Memory’s Gatekeepers: How Attention and Emotion Decide What Sticks

In the quiet afterward—on the commute home, in the shower, during sleep—the story refines itself.

Published September 10, 2025
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Pattern Completion: How the Hippocampus Rebuilds Whole Memories from Fragments

We discuss how pattern completion is not a parlor trick; it is a survival feature.

Published September 10, 2025
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Memory on the Move: Exercise, Neurogenesis, and Learning

In the end, the case for exercise as a memory ally is not a sermon but a demonstration.

Published September 10, 2025
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Emotion’s Editing Room: How Feelings Rewrite Our Past

Each time a memory is called up, it leaves the shelf of long-term storage and returns to a working surface where context, goals, and feelings can mark it up before it is filed again.

Published September 10, 2025
Categorized as Basem Hamid MD of Houston TX

The Digital Mind: How Technology Reshapes Attention and Memory

Technology allows us to transcend limitations of storage and recall, yet it also threatens to erode depth, focus, and authenticity.

Published August 20, 2025
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Neuroplasticity in Action: How Practice and Repetition Reshape the Brain

Neuroplasticity is a reminder that change is always within reach because the brain itself is designed to adapt, to learn, and to grow.

Published August 20, 2025
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The Memory Illusion: Why We Misremember—and What That Reveals About the Mind

The fragility of memory challenges our trust in personal recollections and calls us to humility in how we interpret the past.

Published August 20, 2025
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Silent Sparks: The Role of Glial Cells in Shaping Brain Communication

The silent sparks that guide thought may, in the end, prove to be among the most essential players in the great symphony of the brain.

Published August 20, 2025
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Whispers of Awareness: Rethinking Recovery in Disorders of Consciousness

New developments in the assessment and interpretation of disorders of consciousness are reshaping our clinical and ethical approaches to care.

Published July 23, 2025
Categorized as Basem Hamid MD of Houston TX

Neurology’s Blind Spots: When Seizures Don’t Look Like Seizures

As the field of neurology continues to evolve, so too must the methods used to identify and manage seizure disorders.

Published July 23, 2025
Categorized as Dr. Basem Hamid

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