Category: Brain and Mental Health

Feature card titled Why Your Hormones Are a Performance Issue, the neuroscience of hormones, a neurologist's guide to the hormones shaping your focus and sleep, by Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD, Board-Certified Neurologist.

Women’s Hormonal Health and the Brain: How to Protect Your Focus, Sleep, & Performance at Every Stage of Your Career

If you were in the room for my neurobiology of women’s leadership talk, you heard the blunt truth: your hormones are not a personal issue. ...
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Why you wake up at 3 AM in perimenopause, a neurologist's guide by Dr. Romie Mushtaq, MD

Why You’re Waking Up in the Middle of the Night: A Neurologist’s Guide to Perimenopause and Sleep

Waking at 3 AM with your mind racing and heart pounding isn't anxiety or "just stress," it's neurobiology. As progesterone declines in perimenopause, your brain ...
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Language of Leadership: Supporting Neurodivergent Employees How to Support Neurodivergent Employees at Work | Dr. Romie Supporting Neurodivergent Employees: A Leader's Guide

The Language of Leadership: Supporting Neurodivergent Employees

Every May, we put up the ribbons. We send the emails. We remind people that, “it’s okay to not be okay.”And then June 1st arrives, ...
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Monks walking the Walk for Peace through a winter storm, illustrating steadiness through hard conditions

How to Keep Walking When the Path Gets Hard

Bad news is everywhere. Following brainSHIFT doesn’t mean we spiritually bypass the news, the division, or the discomfort many of us are feeling right now. ...
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