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...mental capacity an athlete has to have to compete over two days and seven events is simply phenomenal. The fact that people can now swap or do dual sports like Kadeena Cox at the Rio Paralympic Games, who won a gold medal on the track and also won a gold medal in athletics, is just testament to both the quality of coaching and how this influences an athlete’s journey....

...mental shortcuts that act to simplify, filter, and reduce the information load. Some of these shortcuts include: selecting confirmatory information, anchoring judgements on a few pieces of information (particularly the first piece of information), judging information based on how easy it is to imagine, and perceiving oneself to be less biased than others. Such cognitive...

...mental health and mental health treatment. The course starts by exploring formal definitions of panic and panic attack. These are then contrasted with personal accounts of the experience of panic. It also presents some of the key understandings of why panic attacks happen, and provides an overview of the main ways people can get help and help themselves. ...Panic attacks:...

...mental function of which patients, through disease, or injury, or failure to develop, may find themselves partly or wholly deprived. (The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat) When I was at boarding school, sent away during the war as a little boy, I had a sense of imprisonment and powerlessness, and I longed for movement and power, ease of movement and superhuman powers. I...