Science

You Are Not Your Brain

August 24, 2019

“I’m not good enough. She’s going to leave me. I am going to mess up this presentation. They’re going to think I am an idiot and not hire me …” At one point or another, we have all experienced these types of self-defeating thoughts. Known as deceptive brain messages

Where’s My Flying Car? On Science’s So-Called Broken Promises

August 23, 2019

What happened to all those promises from the scientists and engineers — flying cars, robotic companions, dinner in a pill form? We have oodles of gadgets and the internet, but can’t figure out how to feed the world or save our planet. Scientists study big questions, but in order to get the funding for their studies have to

Notes of Healing: The Power of Music as Therapy

August 23, 2019

When Grace was born 27 weeks into her mom’s pregnancy, a harpist was conducting research in her Boston neonate intensive care unit. Her mom, Mary Liz Van Dyck, says that the delicate sounds of the harp were a soothing melody amid the clinical noise of constant beeping, alarms, and the bustle of hospital staff.

In The “Creative” Zone: An Interview with Dr. Charles Limb

August 22, 2019

What do Franz Liszt and Jay Z have in common? Not much — one is a classical composer, the other is a rapper; one is dead, the other is alive. We could go on, but one thing they do have in common is their fantastic ability to improvise. Both have or had musical, skill but what really sets them apart from their contemporaries

Know Your Brain: The Nucleus Accumbens — Learning by Reward

August 21, 2019

Dopamine is released from the brain’s prefrontal cortex into a small structure known as the “nucleus accumbens,” which differentiates rewarding and reinforcing stimuli as we experience it. Think of it as the difference between that sweet mocha flavor and those late nights that you’re putting in regularly now.

The Creative Science Behind The Emotional Brain: A Q&A with Dr. Richard J. Davidson

August 21, 2019

Do you recover quickly from setbacks, or are you prone to wallow in despair? Do your friends think you’re psychic because you always know how they’re feeling, or are you often accused of not “getting it”? Why are some people always “up,” while others are in a perpetual state of gloom and doom?

5 Steps to Engineering Attention for Highly Visual Thinkers

August 20, 2019

Many people are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) because they cannot maintain an adequate attention level for language-based tasks. In extreme cases, they have been diagnosed with autism, as the attention to verbal tasks seems nonexistent. Meanwhile, “mavericks” may focus intensely on visual tasks

You Are Getting Sleepy: The Art of Hypnosis

August 17, 2019

While driving on a trip from New York City to the Catskills, which I had taken numerous times, I noticed a tree was missing in a spot along the route. I was surprised that I recognized one tree among many miles of scenery. I knew that I could not have paid attention to every single tree or house or any other

Unlocking Inspiration: A Q&A With Jason Silva

August 15, 2019

Futurist, philosopher, artist, TV personality, filmmaker, and public speaker — Jason Silva was born and raised in Venezuela and came to the United States when he was 18 to major in philosophy and film at the University of Miami. His lifelong passion for media, storytelling, and the big questions of life led him to have dialogues

How The Body Keeps The Score: An Interview with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

August 14, 2019

Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., a clinician, researcher, teacher, and inspiring speaker, has been active in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder since the 1970s. In his book, “The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma,” he reveals how trauma rearranges the brain’s wiring

The Brain Under (Sexual) Assault

August 14, 2019

Nobody can tell you how it feels. Maybe you can’t even make sense of how it feels yourself. Your feelings — along with what feels like most of your organs — might be twisted in knots so bad you want to throw up. What is your brain doing right now after surviving being raped? Understanding that might be one of the first steps to

On Writing and the Neuroscience of Language

August 13, 2019

I like to say that I never chose writing — it chose me. From the time I was 9 years old, I wrote stories profusely, almost never with the ending in mind, or even the basic roadmap of where I was going — just writing the scenes as they played out in my head moments ahead of time. As I grew older, not having an idea was hardly an

Back in Control: A Spine Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain

August 13, 2019

Chronic pain affects approximately 116 million Americans. An astounding one-third of the population live with chronic pain, dealing with everything from back pain to temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMJ) as well as arthritis and migraines. Within the past five years, the number of back surgeries performed has surged.

A Look at the Write Brain

August 11, 2019

Verbal language of some sort has likely been part of the human experience since the dawn of Homo sapiens. Writing, on the other hand, is not innately part of the human brain’s repertoire of behaviors. All human cultures include speech, but not all have written language, and, even today

Memory Man: An Interview with Dr. Eric Kandel

August 10, 2019

Eric Kandel was attracted to the science of the human brain due to his interest in psychotherapy. Where, he wondered, are the Freudian id, ego, and superego located? He soon discovered that even the simplest mental processes were mysteries at the time.

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