Science

Donna Jackson Nakazawa on “The Last Best Cure”

November 18, 2018

Medically speaking, science journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa and author of “The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life” was an accident waiting to happen. Suffering from autoimmune disorders for over a decade

The Cost of Cosmetic Neurology: How the Increase of Neuroenhancing Drugs Create An Emotional Downfall

November 15, 2018

In the last two decades, neuroenhancement drugs have been adopted as a preferred solution. These little pills are famous for increasing focus, attention, and essentially, improving productivity. It’s why they’ve become so widely used (and abused) by college students and young professionals in demanding careers. Sound familiar?

(Who Wrote) The Book of Love: An Interview with Dr. Gabriel Abend

November 9, 2018

How do scientists go about defining love when they perform experiments? An interest in this particular aspect of the human condition is prevalent in both disciplines — but in neuroscience, they are only beginning to scratch the surface.

(Anti-)Social Media: How Social Networks Affect Our Neural Networks

November 5, 2018

We like to think we are fairly rational and sensible beings, unable to be puppeteered by the internet, but neuroscientists are quickly unveiling how social media networks significantly affect our neural networks and motivate certain behaviors. One candidate in particular understood how to use this hook to his advantage

I Always Knew You Were Telepathic: Investigating the Brain’s “Supernatural” Communication

October 30, 2018

Have you ever wondered what a person from the Middle Ages might think if they could spend a single day with you? He or she might think that you’re some sort of sorcerer as they watch you dash off emails, chat on your cell phone, or Skype with someone on the other side of the globe. These are all magical forms

Where’s Your Brain’s Dictionary?

October 27, 2018

Research from MIT suggests that there are parts of our brain dedicated to language and only language, a finding that marks a major advance in the search for brain regions specialized for sophisticated mental functions. Functional specificity, as it’s known to cognitive scientists, refers to the idea that discrete parts of the brain

The Soul Is In The Brain: An Interview with Eduard Punset

October 23, 2018

If you ask professor, author, and specialist on the impact of emerging technologies Eduard Punset about his motivation to go into science, he says that when he saw the impact of new technologies on the multiplication of products and markets, thus breaking the sacred principle of economies of scale

Dementia: The Rising Dragon

October 23, 2018

Joyce had always been at the top of her class, from middle school through college. As a young woman in the 1950s, she was defiant toward the belief that women were second-class citizens, only good for staying at home with the kids. Due to her determination, she attended the best law school in the country

The Zero Point: Living as A Citizen of Earth

October 9, 2018

Many intellectuals, spiritual leaders, and even scientists are talking about oneness. But the reality is that we keep drawing dividing lines between us, as we can see from the many problems of our world. In order to make the zero point physically manifest and come to life, understanding it conceptually or even through experience is not enough

Does Superman Help Explain the Experience of Autism?

October 5, 2018

While critics and audiences railed at the portrayal of Superman in the fight scenes of his return to the big screen in “Man Of Steel,” there was another aspect of his character that was far less discussed in that film. In an early flashback sequence, the young Clark Kent is trying to concentrate in school, but the world around him

Dr. Daniel Amen on Taking a Closer Look At the Brain

October 4, 2018

“I belong to the only group of doctors that never looks at the organ they treat,” says Dr. Daniel Amen. He is, of course, referring to psychiatrists, and the organ is, of course, the brain. Different from functional MRIs which provide pictures of the brain, SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging

What It’s Like To Have A Grand Mal Seizure (And Why I’m Trying to Have One)

October 3, 2018

I have 34 electrodes glued to my head, 34 10-foot wires streaming from my head, plugged into the wall. My head is wrapped in cheesecloth. I’m in the hospital, and I’m not leaving until I have a grand mal seizure. An epileptic grand mal seizure is horrible. Horrible to witness, even more horrible to experience. When I have one

The Enigma of Human Consciousness

September 22, 2018

The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS)-hosted event, “The Emerging Science of Consciousness: Mind, Brain and the Human Experience,” began with a lively discussion titled, “The Thinking Ape: The Enigma of Human Consciousness.” Seeking to plummet this dense subject

Harvesting the Future: How GMOs Will Sustain a Changing World

September 12, 2018

Editing genetic material — something that we can now do more rapidly than ever — is not without its detractors. For many countries in the European Union, the sale of GMOs is cautiously restricted, as these modified products are believed to be agents of cancer and birth defects. Even in the United States

My Life With Tourette’s

August 10, 2018

I was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome in third grade, so each tap was a tic. TS is a genetic disorder that most experts believe is caused by nerve cells in the brain improperly releasing a neurotransmitter called dopamine. In every human brain, dopamine is a chemical messenger that nerve cells

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