Neuroscience & Brain Health
Neuroscience & Brain Health: Cognitive functions, dopamine, prefrontal cortex health, and brain fog.
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Brain Fog Isn’t a Character Flaw. It’s an Energy Budget Problem.
You’re reading an email and by the third sentence realize that your eyes have been scanning across lines of text without registering a single word. You miss a word you’ve used tens of thousands of times. Making decisions that should only take thirty seconds suddenly feels like doing long division in a moving car The initial reaction is that of… Continue reading
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Your Brain Doesn’t Compare to Assess Progress. It Compares to Rank You.
You finish a project, hit a milestone, or completed a grueling run. For about 3 seconds, you feel a sense of genuine accomplishment. You pick your phone up to check a newsfeed, see someone younger, faster, or just objectively more polished doing what you just did at triple scales; the feeling is gone. The achievement is the same. The quality of… Continue reading
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Your Brain Didn’t Forget the Material. It Got Crowded Out.
You know the material. You’ve memorized diagrams, walked through the practice problems, can explain the concepts out loud the night before. You sit, open the test, read the first question and suddenly your mind is totally blank. Your facts have inexplicably become fuzzy, like the filing cabinet in your brain has been dumped… Continue reading
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How Micro-Wins Trigger Neural Pathways for Sustained Motivation
Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. Anisha Mitelan The Scene The kitchen counter holds three opened envelopes, an unfinished medical claim form, and a… Continue reading
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The Science of the “Reset Button”: How Physical Movement Clears Brain Fog
Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. Anisha Mitelan The Scene You have read the same three sentences four times. The cursor blinks at the… Continue reading
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Why Negative Self-Talk Hijacks Executive Function
Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. Anisha Mitelan The Scene You sit at your desk with twenty-two browser tabs open, a half-drafted project proposal… Continue reading
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Why Social Media Scrolling Triggers Decision Fatigue Before Noon
Anisha Mitelan Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. A alarm rings at 6:45 AM on a Thursday morning. Before putting your feet on the… Continue reading
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Why You Freeze Under Pressure: What Polyvagal Theory Explains About Focus
Anisha Mitelan Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. On a bright Tuesday morning inside a quiet clinical testing room in Boston, Massachusetts, a thirty-two-year-old… Continue reading
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How Chronic Stress Shrinks Your Prefrontal Cortex (And How to Reverse It)
Anisha Mitelan Nothing here constitutes medical advice, psychological advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This newsletter is not a substitute for care from a licensed professional. On August 9, 2026, a mid-career architect sits in her car outside a project site in… Continue reading