Best Of 2021

Know Your Brain: Neurogenesis — A Germ Of A Thought

August 15, 2021

Fewer ideas in neuroscience have been as fundamentally wrong and widespread as the notion that the human brain doesn’t generate new cells — that we have a peak number of neurons once we reach adulthood and can’t grow new ones — with only a short window of time to build up all the smarts we will ever have in life.

Maximizing Your Efficiency And Staying On Task

July 12, 2021

If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that you have a cognitively challenging task you’ve vowed to complete one day — whether it’s writing a novel or just finishing a crossword puzzle. Some of you might be halfway through completing it, but just can’t find the stamina to get it finished — so daily interruptions like

Discovering The Dream Signal Of Your Brain

June 29, 2021

While we’re asleep, we may find ourselves wandering through a vivid and complex world, stuffed with the same sensory details we experience when wakeful. We sleep and have dreams as a way to forget the unnecessary stresses and more trivial information the brain absorbs during the course of the day, yet sleeping brains

7 Steps To Better Relationships

June 14, 2021

We all want to have healthy and positive interactions with other people. Yet sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we simply can’t seem to achieve this goal. Much of our interpersonal conflict stems from how we communicate. Since communication is a multifaceted process involving two or more people, it’s important to

Know Your Brain: Crossing Wires — The Fusiform Face Area

June 10, 2021

How often have you heard “Don’t I know you from somewhere?” or at the very least, thought that thought? You’re out shopping or driving and suddenly you see someone who looks familiar. The same probably happens if you’re watching a movie or TV show and an actor you’ve seen in something else appears on the screen

Rewrite Your Story, Design Your Future Life

May 20, 2021

Many people start to look back on their past when they enter the second half of life. In particular, they become immersed in memories as they recall both good and hard times. But such passive retrospection isn’t enough. You must take time to do an interim accounting of your life, reflecting actively and intentionally on your past

Breaking Down Overeating Behavior With Neuroscience

April 5, 2021

When it comes to losing weight, some of the most common advice out there is “portion control,” at least when people aren’t trying to promote some combination of foods that will somehow set the process of weight loss in motion. There’s probably some good advice in all of these helpful hints, but they’re not always easy to

How Does Your Brain Make Long-Term Memories?

February 2, 2021

On a day in late August 1953, a young man later known to medical history as patient H.M. underwent an experimental procedure. The operation, an effort to control the debilitating seizures he suffered, meant the removal of parts of his brain, among them was part of a mechanism known as the hippocampus. The surgery was

If Our DNA Doesn’t Make Humans Different From Chimps — What Does?

January 25, 2021

When we imagine the course of human evolution — the roughly three-million year period from the moment when Lucy began to walk upright through grasses of the Awash River Valley to modern times, it’s hard to determine the moment at which we became human, or at least as human as we might recognize ourselves. After all, there’s only

How Much Sleep Does Your Brain Really Need?

January 11, 2021

A good night’s sleep could be more crucial than we think. It might seem like an unattainable goal to some — something we never get enough of, as we feel the unpleasant effects from a lack of it. Now those effects might run deeper than anyone previously thought possible. Recent research published by the journal

How Your Brain Produces and Promotes Patience

January 3, 2021

Part of growing up, we’ve come to learn that patience is a virtue. Whether it’s a matter of being caught on the highway on the way home after finishing a long work day — or eagerly counting down the days until an exciting new movie, book, or film finally releases, patience is something we all have to embrace at some time or other.

Understanding The “Traffic Jams” Of Neurons In Alzheimer’s Disease

December 6, 2020

It can take decades for the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to appear, this is why when a loved one starts to show signs of dementia, no one is ever really certain of the precise moment when their mental health took a turn for the worse. However, even before the telltale signs show up in an individual, the brain’s neurons

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