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Category: (neuro)psychology

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Psychoactive substances and mermaid sightings at sea

By Martine Mussies | April 2, 2025April 2, 2025 by Martine Mussies

I’m excited to share my latest article, published in Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities. This piece brings together two of my autistic special interests – mermaids and neuro(psycho)logy.

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Autism & Sleep

By Martine Mussies | February 25, 2025April 2, 2025 by Martine Mussies

I originally wrote this piece on autism & sleep for Autisme is Veelzijdig, a Dutch platform on autism. I’m sharing it here as well, hoping it might resonate with others.

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A Nightmare on Valentine’s Day – About the Nervous System and its Resilience

By Martine Mussies | February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 by Martine Mussies

Valentine’s Day is sunny and cold. I’m sitting on a bench with my vegan almond matcha and a vegan sandwich, looking out at my beloved Dom Tower. The sun reflects off the stones and the…

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Brain Rot: Word of the Year 2024—and a Symptom of a Deeper Crisis

By Martine Mussies | January 13, 2025April 2, 2025 by Martine Mussies

In 2024, the term brain rot was crowned Word of the Year, capturing the zeitgeist of an era grappling with the effects of digital overconsumption.

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Writing fanfiction to cope with mental health issues

By Martine Mussies | March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 by Martine Mussies

Recently, I found this personal narrative that depicts a 15-year-old French girl’s experience with depression and how writing fanfiction has helped her cope with her mental health struggles. Republished with the author’s permission.

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Synaesthesia – an essay on the adjacency of the sense of hearing and the other senses

By Martine Mussies | March 19, 2022August 24, 2022 by Martine Mussies

During my Master’s degree in musicology at Utrecht University, I took the course “A History of Modern Listening”. This blog post is based on an essay I wrote for that course, and published in response…

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Neuromusicology

By Martine Mussies | February 4, 2020February 4, 2020 by Martine Mussies

Deciding on topics for the assignments of my studies in neuropsychology are an easy task for me. I took up this learning because I wanted to understand the autistic brain. Now that we are in…

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