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Social Prescribing Rises Globally—From Art Classes to Walking Clubs

Social Prescribing Rises Globally—From Art Classes to Walking Clubs By Thierry Malleret, economist Social prescribing is a much broader and inclusive form of wellness. The more digital- and AI-driven the world becomes, the greater our need for in-person interactions. Increasingly, doctors are prescribing social activities as different as art studios, choirs or walking clubs to their patients to improve their mental and physical health. The UK, with its National Academy for Social Prescribing, is ahead of the…

Wellness Real Estate Case Study: The Spine, Liverpool, UK

Wellness Real Estate Case Study: The Spine, Liverpool, United Kingdom The Spine is a 14-story, state-of-the-art, healthy and sustainable office building, specially designed to serve as the new northern headquarters for the Royal College of Physicians (RCP). Located near Liverpool’s city center, the building is a flagship project within the first phase of the Liverpool Knowledge Quarter’s Paddington Village development—a $1.26 billion (£1b) initiative to create a 30-acre urban village and…

Skincare, Whole-Body Wellness, & Diversity

What if the skin you’ve been trying to fix has been trying to take care of you all along? Conventional skincare asks you to conform to a narrow beauty “ideal” that glorifies unattainable, unsustainable, and superficial flawless, glowing skin. It does not recognize skin as a dynamic organ that’s essential to human health. Instead, skin is treated as a superficial, static, and passive surface which can…

Predictions for Male Social Cognition

Predictions for Male Social Cognition The Cognitive Ecology of Men — Essay Series The Biological Basis of Male Social Dynamics Why, Y Chromosome, Why? The Male Role in a Group The Neural Architecture of Social Hierarchy and Male Group Behavior Endocrine Signaling Through the Male Social Brain Predictions for Male Social Cognition An Ecological Calculus The preceding essays argue that men’s cognition, shaped through evolutionary…

An Ecological Calculus: Estimating and Correcting Male Social Binding Deficits

An Ecological Calculus: Estimating and Correcting Male Social Binding Deficits The Cognitive Ecology of Men — Essay Series The Biological Basis of Male Social Dynamics Why, Y Chromosome, Why? The Male Role in a Group The Neural Architecture of Social Hierarchy and Male Group Behavior Endocrine Signaling Through the Male Social Brain Predictions for Male Social Cognition An Ecological Calculus The Contracted Ecology The opening…

A four-layer diagram showing the causal architecture of male social behavior. The top layer (genetic) shows the Y chromosome as a binary developmental switch on the left and X-linked, autosomal, and epigenetic sources of behavioral variance on the right. The second layer (endocrine) contains four signaling systems: HPG axis, HPA axis, bonding peptides, and sympathetic-adrenal-medullary system. The third layer (neural) contains three circuit domains: triple-network dynamics, limbic and social cognition, and reward and hierarchy processing. The bottom layer (behavioral) lists seven emergent behavioral outputs. Arrows connect layers top to bottom, with a dashed feedback arrow running from the behavioral layer back up to the endocrine layer along the right margin. A dashed outer border represents social, cultural, and ecological context modulating every layer.

Why, Y chromosome, why?

Why, Y chromosome, why? The Cognitive Ecology of Men — Essay Series The Biological Basis of Male Social Dynamics Why, Y Chromosome, Why? The Male Role in a Group The Neural Architecture of Social Hierarchy and Male Group Behavior Endocrine Signaling Through the Male Social Brain Predictions for Male Social Cognition An Ecological Calculus The Y chromosome is a developmental switch. A single gene on…