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Bechara Saab

What the First Successful Placebo-Controlled Trial with a Mindfulness App Actually Taught Us

“Katie’s study was the first successful human trial of its kind. Never before had a meditation app been shown to outperform a placebo…

8 min readMay 1, 2022

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What the First Successful Placebo-Controlled Trial with a Mindfulness App Actually Taught Us

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Bechara Saab

How to Quickly Assess the Scientific Rigour of a Clinical Trial

To appreciate what makes the first successful placebo-controlled study of a meditation app so special, we must first understand the general…

5 min readSep 11, 2021

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How to Quickly Assess the Scientific Rigour of a Clinical Trial

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Bechara Saab

Humble Beginnings for a New Era in Medicine

It was five years after the Wright brothers’ now legendary flight in 1903, when the general public finally took notice.

4 min readSep 11, 2021

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Humble Beginnings for a New Era in Medicine

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Bechara Saab

Avoid Believing these Common Neuroscience Myths (Part 4/4)

In three previous stories, I summarised what Ray Dalio’s book Principles attempts to achieve, reviewed the concepts that resonated most…

6 min readNov 23, 2020

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Bechara Saab

Should I Personality Profile My Team? (Part 3/4)

After publishing two other Medium stories on Ray Dalio’s book Principles — the first summarising the book’s contents and aim, and the…

6 min readNov 16, 2020

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Bechara Saab

Nine Profound Concepts from Ray Dalio’s Principles (Part 2/4)

This overview of Principles’s most salient concepts describes everything you need to know about Dalio’s meritocracy manual, if you aim to…

11 min readNov 9, 2020

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Nine Profound Concepts from Ray Dalio’s Principles (Part 2/4)

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Bechara Saab

Neuroperspective on Dalio’s Meritocracy Manual, Principles (Part 1/4)

In my quest to transition from Principal Investigator neuroscientist to CEO neuroscientist, I have been guided by the frank criticism and…

5 min readNov 2, 2020

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“Where you arrive doesn’t matter as much as who you are when you arrive there.” Photo by the author.

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Bechara Saab

Disrupting Healthcare with Advice from a Stoic

It’s early morning at RebelBio, the SOSV biotech accelerator nested in the basement of a futuristic glass tower at Imperial College London…

4 min readMar 10, 2020

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Disrupting Healthcare with Advice from a Stoic

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Bechara Saab

The Least Stressed Nation on Earth: And How to Reduce Yours

Right now, people all over the world are sharing insights on their mental wellbeing through the clinically-validated app, Am Mindfulness…

6 min readMay 7, 2019

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Bechara Saab

Bechara Saab

Neuroscientist & CEO @ Mobio Interactive. I support my team in the pursuit of effective and accessible healthcare for every human.

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