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How Do Video Games Change Your Brain?

August 8, 2019

A visit to your local GameStop can prove overwhelming when faced with the seemingly innumerable choices of video games stacking the shelves before you. They range from shooter games like “Call of Duty” to sports games such as “FIFA,” role-playing games including “Diablo,” and even music and party games like “Just Dance.”

A Look at ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)

July 24, 2019

Consider this: nearly a quarter of Americans suffer from depression or anxiety in any given year. Given this statistic, it is imperative that we find innovative solutions to alleviate mental suffering. One approach in particular that has shown promising results in recent decades is ACT.

Night Eating Syndrome: Causes and Concerns

June 29, 2019

Do you consume more than a quarter of your daily calories after your evening meal? Do you have trouble falling asleep or suffer from insomnia during the night? Is your appetite for breakfast generally lacking? If you answered “yes” to all of these questions, you have a condition called “night eating syndrome”

Unjunk Your Junk Food: Consider “Thirst Quenching”

June 29, 2019

When we hear the phrase “junk food” — we know it means the calorie and fat filled chips and sugar-laden candies, cookies, and goodies that fill store shelves and vending machines. But there’s been a rapid rise in a new wave of junk for quite some time.

“Sorry.” (Brain Freeze) “Oops.” — What Happens During A “Retrieval Failure”

June 27, 2019

We’ve all been there before. Tennis players can relate when the match is on their racquet and they feel frozen in space like they’ve never swung before. Their feet don’t move, their arms are like blocks of stone and the object they’re holding feels as foreign to them as a cell phone would to a caveman.

Change Yourself, Change The World

June 17, 2019

Every year, young people from all over the world come together in New York City to participate in the International Brain Education Association’s World Peace Leadership Program. They meet with many officials from various organizations and country missions associated with the United Nations

Communicating with Teens: Tips from an Unusual Source

May 14, 2019

A study from the University of Arizona which looked into using text messaging to deliver educational information about nutrition and physical activity to teens found that most teens were open to receiving such texts, but the way in which they were worded made a big difference. The study, which appears in the

Exploring the “Paleofantasy”: What Evolution Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and Modern Life

April 28, 2019

When speaking about evolution many people tend to use the past tense, as if we’re no longer evolving, as if our species is the same now as it was during the Paleolithic period. This is false. Similarly, many people believe that in order to maximize our health and longevity, we should imitate

Neurotoxins and the Developing Brain

March 31, 2019

We have long known that there is a critical period during a child’s development during which the brain is considerably more malleable than an adult’s brain. In other words, outside influences — both positive and negative — have a much greater impact on neuronal formation and function from gestation to

Two Left Feet? You Might Be Gliding Without Enough GABA

March 30, 2019

You may blame your two left feet on your cerebellum, or your genetics. But maybe, it’s your GABA that’s to blame. Whether you’ve got moves like Jagger, or you lose your balance like Larry and Moe, scientists have learned that GABA — a neurotransmitter that plays a role in the motor cortex — rise and fall when learning

Food Doesn’t Have to Look “Perfect” to Eat

March 3, 2019

Even though most of us might not prefer to identify as dedicated grocery shoppers, we have clear preferences when it comes to choosing the produce from the display: We do not go for the ugly ones.

Know Your Brain: The Hippocampus — Your Brain’s GPS

February 23, 2019

It’s long been known that the hippocampus, a structure of the brain located in the medial temporal lobe, is responsible for spacial navigation and memory. In the past, some researchers have thought that it encodes the distance to the goal as the crow flies, the Euclidean straight line while others have thought that it maps

“Siri, Search for Syncope” — Why Did I Just Faint?

January 27, 2019

What is fainting? The scientific world for it is “syncope” and it means a temporary loss of consciousness followed by a return to full wakefulness. The brain consists of two hemispheres, the cerebellum and the brain stem. The blood flow to the brain provides it with oxygen and glucose that are necessary for the cells to stay alive.

We May Be Born With A Concept of Time

January 11, 2019

Just about every branch of human thought has tried to make sense of the concepts of time and space, whether or not they exist as constants and how accurately our own measurements can represent each. This is all perhaps just part of being human, as a study suggests that we determine

Mysteries of Modern Art, Or Why Some People Hate or Love It

January 4, 2019

A recent excursion with friends brought me to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. With the random wire sculptures and the torn canvases, the splotches of paint dripped or flung, and even the pantyhose filled with potato, I disliked looking at anything. In fact, I mocked the so-called art

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