mark henick ✍🏻

🗣 storyteller
📻 journalist
📖 bestselling author @HarperCollinsCa |
👨🏻‍🎓nerd @JournalismTMU @Cambridge_Uni @KingsIoPPN @EriksonInst @StThomasU

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

Bam! Bam! BAM! 💥 My book is way beyond all the modest stretch goals I set for it already. Everything else is just overflow gratitude now. Think we can get it into the Top 100? https://t.co/RKiMVZVb6f #books #amwriting #mentalhealth

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@NightShiftMD Oh this looks wonderful! Where can I get tickets?

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

Camillo Golgi received the 1906 medicine prize for discovering nerve cells could be stained with silver nitrate. This enabled Golgi and other researchers to make detailed studies of our nervous system, such as the ones pictured.

Learn more: https://t.co/eXwwoypgow

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@kinsellawarren Do you think it wiser to time the inevitable leadership race to pre-election and ride the post-convention bump into the campaign, or go earlier and use the extra runway to rebuild trust and brand? Surely not a one last feeble shot à la Harper?

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Physical fitness is associated with higher intelligence.

You're not at your cognitive potential if you're not at your physical potential.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Being grateful rewires the brain.

Neuroplasticity in action.

[nature @Nature]

Researchers have tracked the electrical crackle of individual brain cells in real time during unscripted conversations, capturing how sentences are built before a single word is spoken

https://t.co/sLb4N3ZnTw

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Emotional intelligence is not about avoiding strong reactions. It’s about being less reactive.

Reactions are hard to control—they’re rapid and visceral. Responses are easier to delay and modify.

A key to emotion regulation is expanding the distance between feelings and actions.

[CNN @CNN]

New research published this week in The American Journal of Psychiatry finds that the earlier and more rapidly adolescents use social media, the more likely they are to experiment with substances such as alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. https://t.co/esjhm40kFr

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@BadreNicolas If market-based solutions actually fulfilled their promise of greater quality, innovation, availability and accessibility then I’d say commodify away. But alas here we are, more enshittified than ever

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

A new Science study shows that bumble bees can position a ball underneath a fake “flower” to reach a reward, suggesting they can exhibit spontaneous problem-solving and challenging the notion that such advanced cognitive abilities are exclusive to large-brained vertebrates.

Learn more: https://t.co/T964qkIQzx

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The suppressed report that concluded there is no protective or safe level of alcohol consumption, now published. It was commissioned by US Congress
Report https://t.co/XmmsSo9q3q
Editorial https://t.co/8NuqBwkugM
"Despite the study’s adherence to its mandate, its findings were sidelined.”

[CNN @CNN]

A growing body of research finds that meditation may help reduce anxiety, manage stress, ease pain and improve sleep quality, among other health benefits. The new study suggests that shifts in brain waves could play a hidden role in generating these benefits, and just a few minutes can start calming your brain. https://t.co/0Yzt5KN9Q5

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@BrandonLuuMD I’ve read probably 90% of the audiobooks that I have (which is a lot) at the gym. Real potential partnership here @GoodLifeFitness @audible_ca

[mark henick ✍🏻 @markhenick]

@TomPark1n I do like the city hall parking garage system. When I just want to go north on line 1 to Yonge and Eg, my brain just won’t remember whether it’s Finch or Vaughan. If finch had a little bird I might

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The rise in remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has substantially increased time spent alone and worsened workers’ mental health, according to a new study in Science based on survey data from more than 500,000 Americans.

📄: https://t.co/vdwEwt4pb0
#SciencePerspective: https://t.co/nJT87Isr3N

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

Parliament asked CAMAP for the curriculum to train MAID assessors for mental illness.

The organization said it’s “impossible” to provide it—and won’t make it public.

Health Canada gave 3.3 million dollars to CAMAP for its curriculum development.

Transparency shouldn't be optional.

@meagangillmore
https://t.co/GQNp3LJPtu

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Home alone. Remote work can adversely influence mental health. A new study @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/sXlG0LEJGq
https://t.co/b7cq4e0hZy

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Being alive at all is the most extraordinary stroke of good luck any of us will ever experience, the physicist Alan Lightman writes: “The question is: What are we to make of the fantastically improbable fact of our existence, our moment of life?” https://t.co/MFmol1dRvL

[Ramona Coelho @rljcoelho]

The narrative that MAiD provides a peaceful, beautiful death every time is false.

One patient cried "help me" and showed signs of distress during MAiD. Bradley Stewart resumed breathing after being declared dead, leaving his family traumatized. In one study, one-third of family members described the MAiD death as traumatic.

Informed consent requires disclosure of complications and adverse outcomes, not just promises of a beautiful death.

My comments in Sharon Kirkey's National Post article 👇
https://t.co/iOlAnSExYt