Science

Facing the Music: The Power of Rhythmic Movements

August 13, 2020

If you’ve seen “The Wolf of Wall Street,” you probably remember the scene early on in the film when Leonardo DiCaprio’s character goes out to lunch with his boss (who is played by Matthew McConaughey) and learns the secret to working on Wall Street. In the middle of a fancy restaurant, McConaughey’s character starts

Try More Sleep and Reap the Rewards

August 11, 2020

The average human spends one-third of their life sleeping, but rumor has it that things were a little bit different for Leonardo da Vinci: da Vinci would only take 1-hour naps every 4 hours. Looking at one of the most influential geniuses of mankind, one might think that sleeping might actually be

Getting Gene Therapy Toward Your Brain

August 9, 2020

All it takes is a single genetic mutation to permanently alter one’s life, or even the course of one’s life — bringing about any number of recessive linked genetic disorders that can affect the entire body. For decades, people dreaded the possibility that they could develop Huntington’s disease later in life or that they could be

Brain Operating System: The User Manual for Your Mind

August 8, 2020

Yes! Our brains are operating systems. If you want to understand how they work, author, and educator Ilchi Lee suggests thinking of the physical organ as hardware with thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and preconceptions constituting the software that evokes our daily life experiences.

Learning and Memory: How Do We Remember and Why Do We Often Forget?

August 6, 2020

Are memory and recall really so complicated? The bigger question is, “How do we remember and why do we often forget?” Like health, everyone’s memory is impacted by an infinite number of variables that can lead to a wide range of outcomes depending upon the circumstances. Familiarity with those conditions and the

Debunking 10 “Brain Fitness” Myths

August 4, 2020

Modern life places extraordinary demands on our brains. Not only do we live longer than ever before, but we must constantly adapt to complex and rapidly evolving personal and professional realities. Yet, we often ignore our most precious resource to do so: our brain.

Know Your Brain: How Neuroplasticity Works

August 3, 2020

There’s always been a time in our lives when we thought, if given enough time, we’d learn a new language, a new instrument, acquire a new skill. Some of us have successfully accomplished this in the wake of the pandemic, and probably a few of us are somewhere in between — realizing that the whole thing is a lot

Three Prescriptions For A Healthy Brain

July 31, 2020

Whether you are a doctor treating a patient, a professor teaching students, or an engineer designing a machine, the odds are that a great deal of your professional activities — no matter how rigorous they may appear to an outside observer — are routine. You practice well-rehearsed professional skills

To Remember, Your Brain Must Actively Forget

July 30, 2020

It’s a central principle of owning a human body that if you don’t use it, you lose it. Singers have to practice hitting the high notes to keep vocal range wide and vocal cords limber. Basketballers have to shoot countless hoops to hone their technique. We all have to get out of the easy chair and get a little exercise

What is Face Blindness?

July 28, 2020

It happens to most of us from time to time; someone comes up, calls us by name and launches into a chummy conversation. Though you can’t recall their face, within seconds it’s clear you and this someone have a relationship of some sort. And so, you nod politely, desperately analyzing their

Can Disaster Movies Prepare You For The Real Thing?

July 27, 2020

All too often, you’ve probably heard people talk about how it’s hard to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t something out of a disaster movie we’ve all seen — that the way in which the world shut down so abruptly for such a long period of time and forced us to rethink nearly every aspect of our own lives

Why We Need to Figure Out A Theory of Consciousness

July 25, 2020

Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness scientists” have gathered some interesting information about the differences between

Simple Critters and Big Mysteries: An Interview with Dr. Thomas J. Carew

July 24, 2020

The excitement exhibited by Thomas J. Carew while talking about neuroscience is similar to that of a child discussing a favorite activity, as he seems to be thoroughly elated with his current position. “In a single day, I get to talk to a poet, a physicist and a Chinese historian,” cheerfully states Carew, in his role

What Prison Does To Your Brain

July 22, 2020

“A door was accidentally ajar and I heard a child laugh, I hadn’t heard anything as beautiful in more than two decades, my mind was awhirl for weeks,” Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed with Nelson Mandela for most of his 28 years, told me this after he was released (almost two years before Mandela).

At A Loss for Words: Your Brain on Writer’s Block

July 21, 2020

He’d lost his magic. The impulse was spent. His talent was dead.” So opens “The Humbling,” one of the last novels by celebrated author Philip Roth. Although it tells the story of a washed up stage actor at the end of his career, these three short sentences sum up what every writer dreads the most — losing whatever

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