Dr Alexandros A Lavdas

Heartbreaking message from mother, Lucica Antohi. 💔 “I don’t even know how to write this… Today we received the results from the latest scan. And my heart is breaking as I say this — the tumor is growing very fast. It has become very large, and surgery is no longer possible. The doctors have told us there is nothing more they can do… only painkillers to try to keep him comfortable. But how can a mother accept this? How can I just sit and watch my child suffer, knowing there must be something, somewhere, someone who can help? I refuse to believe this is the end. I refuse to stop fighting for my child. Please… if you are a doctor, a researcher, or you know anything about treatments, experimental drugs, clinical trials — anything at all — I am begging you to help us. We are searching for even the smallest chance. One idea. One contact. One opportunity. Please share this message. Help it reach the right person. Because somewhere out there, there might be someone who can save my child. Thank you for standing with us in this fight. ❤️ Please repost to give Matia a chance to live. 🙏🏻 If you can help, please reach out to Matias’s mother: linkedin.com/in/lucicaantoh…

@gghamari An ally of the IRI and of Putin. It should not be in NATO, really - but then again, if it is thrown out, it will become even more dangerous. Let's hope Erdogan is replaced at some point by someone more reasonable.

I'm confused. Is Turkey an ally of the United States or an ally of the terrorist Islamic Republic? Do other NATO members behave like this as well?

Quantifying Emotional Responses to US Federal Buildings. Many thanks to @JustinShubow Shubow and the @civicartsociety for providing the images that served as stimuli in this work, our second biometric study with these images. mdpi.com/2076-3417/16/9….

@JohnAndersonAC @jordanbpeterson @MikhailaFuller He is a force of good in this world. I hope his health is better soon

In this 2018 interview with John Anderson, @jordanbpeterson spoke through tears about a simple, haunting truth: how little encouragement some people need to turn their lives around and how rarely they receive it. Following the recent update from @MikhailaFuller regarding Jordan’s health and his battle with akathisia and neurological injury, these words feel more poignant than ever. Jordan has spent years pouring encouragement into the lives of millions; now, we want to send that same strength back to him. John and the entire team here are praying for our friend Jordan and the Peterson family during this incredibly difficult season. If you are people of prayer, we ask you to do the same. #jordanpeterson #akathisiaawareness #prayerworks #prayer

Narcissistic self-proclaimed "pacifists" in the free world do not really give a damn about human rights in Iran or anywhere else. They just enjoy virtue signalling.

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🧠 #Neuroaesthetics and the City How do buildings affect our #brains? This approach examines how visual complexity, light, scale, and materiality shape stress, cognition, and social interaction in urban spaces. 🏙️ 🔗 mdpi.com/2673-8392/6/2/… #UrbanDesign #Neuroscience

No, you do not need a degree to have an opinion about your city, street ... youtu.be/qmYBgKVJZ7s?si… via @YouTube

@VitruviusGrind @hewittarch You are welcome to submit your results for peer-reviewed publication, if you are confident about them

@hewittarch Having read in-depth and tried to replicate some of his recent papers, I would strenuously push back on the assertion that the way he employs science and math is "real" in any sort of rigorous or meaningful sense.

Tbh I do not think of Salingaros as a giant in architecture criticism and theory. Not even sure he registers as a normal-sized figure.

Beauty in the built environment is a necessity, not a luxury, and our perception of it is neither purely subjective nor merely socially constructed. An interview in Ruben Hanssen’s @rhfhanssen @aesthetic_city podcast. A video will follow lnkd.in/dvMAd2Wa

Internet launch of our new book on Neuroscience and the built environment, tomorrow at 17.00 CET geneticsofdesign.com/2025/11/18/zoo…

Another fantastic example of simple and effective Iranian apartment design! A mixture of red brick, and turquoise stone with shaded balconies. Should be inspirational to cities around the world. By Herreh Architects, in Tehran

@GadSaad Apparently, if the said member is up to 8.5 inches, then all is well and dandy

Oh my!

Inside the Routledge Handbook: How Neuroscience is Transforming Architec... youtube.com/live/SXfOkmwhA… via @YouTube

Got 4 minutes to spare checking out some photos? It's for a good cause!! This is a follow-up biometric study related to the debate about federal buildings geneticsofdesign.com/2025/09/19/how…

@grok @FrenlyOfficer @MikhailaFuller @jordanbpeterson There you go "2024 Nov 8;86(12):7248–7254. doi: 10.1097/MS9.0000000000002718Ann Med Surg (Lond) Chronic inflammatory response syndrome: a review of the evidence of clinical efficacy of treatment " pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11…

CIRS is not widely recognized as a distinct medical condition by mainstream science or organizations like Mayo Clinic and CDC. It's a controversial diagnosis linked to mold exposure, promoted in integrative medicine but lacking strong evidence and often criticized as unproven. Mold allergies and toxicities are real, but CIRS remains debated.

Hey guys, @jordanbpeterson is taking some time off of everything. He was diagnosed with CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) due to a genetic predisposition that causes the immune system to have an inability to identify and detoxify mold/bacteria in indoor air (the genetic predisposition is not that rare, it’s in about 25% of people but he has a severe version). Over the last year or so he’s been feeling the impact of CIRS more and more. Recently he was exposed to a particularly moldy environment while helping clean out my grandfather’s house after he passed away which severely flared symptoms. To be crystal clear - this isn’t about akathisia or medication. He’s not on any medication. It’s an immune system dysfunction. CIRS (chronic inflammatory response syndrome) is what has been behind his multiple health issues and random severe allergies and severe food sensitivities over the years. He’s really been suffering from this badly since 2017 we just didn’t know what it was called. Only eating meat helped keep the symptoms under control but it hasn’t been enough recently. CIRS is also the explanation behind recent cancelled shows, cancelled events, sporadic appearance of being rundown and general weepiness (caused by pain). He’s pausing the podcast at the moment but we’re hopeful for a somewhat speedy recovery given we at least know what’s going on, and there is treatment, and he’s responding well although it’s pretty rough. Praise GOD that we finally know what’s been going on. The fact that doctors don’t generally recognize that mold exposure in indoor air is causing chronic health issues is insane. The fact that this is the cause behind our food sensitivities and inability to tolerate anything other than meat (for 8 years now), multiple disorders and diseases in my family, and is virtually unrecognized by the medical community, is absurd. Just like the medical system didn’t recognize ketogenic diets as a treatment for mental disorders 10 years ago (and still most doctors don’t). Just like psych med withdrawal wasn’t recognized 5 years ago (and still more doctors don’t recognize it). This indoor air quality problem that causes Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome will be commonly diagnosed in the next 5-10 years. I am positive about that. Praying we can treat him quickly and the medical community can be more aware of CIRS and building codes can change (add ERVs to HVACs) so we can get fresh air indoors. Everyone should take this extremely seriously if they have psych, autoimmune, or neurodegenerative disorders, or have family members they live with who suffer from these disorders as mold toxicity manifests in people exposed equally, differently. To the people in Brazil - he apologies for not being able to make the event and definitely hopes to make it out there in the future. He apologizes for moving his European tour. So, for now on YouTube he has episodes of the new call in Q and A show -Answer the Call- that him and I recorded together before he got really ill recently. He was very excited to put this out, helping people is what he enjoys the most. That’s why he does what he does. We hope you guys like it, it’s out now on YouTube, @realDailyWire and all other podcasting sites and we have a few more episodes releasing tomorrow and Monday. Thank you for the understanding 🙏🏻 prayers are appreciated.

@MikhailaFuller @jordanbpeterson Best wishes for a speedy recovery!

...beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Yes, BUT: Did you know that even toddlers "prefer" elements found in 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢 by looking at them longer? Just like they look at "beautiful" faces longer. Amazing! doi.org/p5d2 Today in our @Fondetudes Summer Academy, neuroscientist @AALavdas of @EURAC/@websteru/@the_HAPI presented his research on the foundations of beauty perception in the human brain. His research follows the tradition of the late architect and design theorist Prof. Christopher Alexander of @UCBerkeley and Prof. Nikos Salingaros of @UTSASciences. He has recently proposed a way of "quantifying beauty" through visual attention proxy metrics: doi.org/p5d3 Using the new🍌 @NanoBanana image editing mode of @GeminiApp, our students adapted photographs of buildings and analyzed the outcomes with state-of-the-art @3M Visual Attention Software. Can you see how adding ornament on the pediment of the temple draws the eye? 👀 Of course, these were only machine learning based simulations of eye-movement. But how do they hold up in a field test? Find out tomorrow as @BallandiesMC , Philippe Schultheiss and I take to the streets of Milano...

...yesterday, in our @Fondetudes Summer Academy on 𝔱𝔯𝔞𝔡𝔦𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔞𝔩 𝔞𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔱𝔢𝔠𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, @AALavdas introduced visual attention as a proxy for "architectural beauty". Today, for a field trial, we took to the streets of Lugano🇨🇭 We used cutting-edge @VPS_Eyetracking eye tracking glasses provided by Mindset Technologies. This was made possible through the support of Christian Kusmitsch, Fabian Simmank, Nils Berger and Aladár Țepelea. The glasses were a pleasure to work with - and look at the results! Even in a short field trial, we found that there is decent correlation between the simulated visual attention data and real-world eye tracking data. Many limitations of course still apply to such a short experiment - field of view, calibration, contrast, 3D/2D... BUT, as this promising new technology becomes more widely accessible, it can (and should!) inform new studies on how building designs are perceived - and how it affects our mental and physical health. This could extend great work by Hernan Rosas, @ann_sussman, Abigail Sekely and @AALavdas: doi.org/p5j6 Tomorrow, with @BallandiesMC and Philippe Schultheiss, we will switch gears and find out if beautiful buildings could even help us with environmental and climate protection 🌍