by Omar Meriwani | Jul 2, 2025 | Medicine
Angiogenesis is the process by which new blood vessels form from pre-existing ones. When considering the expansion of certain tissues, such as adipose tissue or muscles, it is essential to think about how these tissues are supplied with oxygen, nutrients, and how...
by Omar Meriwani | Apr 12, 2025 | Psychology
Is depression a problem affecting the brain as an organ, a disorder of thoughts and how we use the mind, or could it stem from a broader issue in the body? From a lecture by Daniel Nettle at the Evolutionary Psychiatry Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists,...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 23, 2025 | Psychology
Our senses detect more than 11 million units of information every second, with the eye alone capturing 10 million signals per second if we consider it as a flow of data forming continuous video clip. How much of that information do you remember? How much of it is...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 12, 2025 | Evolutionary Psychology
So, let’s move to the other important topic: eating disorders and their relationship to our evolutionary conditions. Does the concept of mismatch apply to them? The answer is yes—mismatch does apply, perhaps even more significantly than to any other condition. When I...
by Omar Meriwani | Mar 12, 2025 | Evolutionary Psychology
The modern environment—whether it’s the social environment or other aspects such as the kind of the foods we eat—differs from the original human environment, that of hunter-gatherers. This was the environment in which human traits evolved, and humans lived in for most...