When was the last time you forgot where you kept your keys, or blanked out on someone’s name during an important conversation, or got distracted and abandoned an important task? While everyone might have faced these problems on more than one occasion, chances are that for most of us, these events are few and far […]
March
16
Eye Can’t Hear You
posted by er1nj0nes
If you had to choose between trusting your eyes, your ears, or your common sense, which would you choose? I made this choice not long ago when I was scrolling through instagram and came across a video that made me doubt my senses. I rewatched it 3 times thinking, “How is this even real?” It […]
March
12
Fighting fire with fire: How we can use opioids to fight opioid addiction
posted by JC Gorman
JC Gorman The dramatic rise in opioid overdose-related deaths has become a national health emergency. For decades now, countless dollars have been spent trying to both fight opioid substance abuse and also learn how to best treat people who have become reliant on this class of drugs. These therapies come in many forms, from rehab […]
March
02
Mindfulness as a treatment for anxiety
posted by Seraphina Solders
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) may be similarly effective as medication for treating anxiety disorders
February
14
You Can’t Spell ‘Love’ Without ‘Vole’
posted by Jacqueline Mosko
Happy Valentine’s Week! This article will delve into the neuroscience underlying pair bond formation in prairie voles, including the new study which has challenged the previously accepted theory.
February
09
Boredom and the Brain
posted by Susan Lubejko
Given how overstimulating our world has become (or perhaps because of it), we spend a surprising amount of time absolutely bored to tears. Maybe your wireless headphones died during a long flight and you are simply left to sit in silence, or perhaps your work meeting has just crept into its third hour with no […]
February
02
The Neuroscience of Cute Aggression
posted by Seraphina Solders
The first thing I do when I get home from work each day is make a beeline for my cat Callie. As I hold her against my shoulder while she nuzzles my neck and purrs to greet me, I am overwhelmed with the urge to squeeze her so tightly that she pops like a baloon. […]
January
26
Striking and Totally Unexpected
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
If you would like to learn a little more about how epilepsy affects memory and more about my personal accounts, one of my previous articles, Shaken Memory, also talks about thes things. I consider this current article a revision, however, since I have learned a bit more about my condition. When Brenda Milner and William […]
December
22
Fatal Attraction: What is Sex and Love Addiction?
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Have you ever been in love? Has it made you do crazy things? Whether it was sending your lover bundles of flowers, stalking their social media (or stalking them in person), or boiling a rabbit in a pot of water, we’ve all been there. We know that love is enthralling. It is potent enough in […]
December
15
Cell Cycle Rules Aren’t for Fools
posted by Joseph Herdy
Our great gamble as individuals composed of trillions of cells is that every cell is going to get along together and play by the rules. Our gut cells wake up and slay the nutrient uptake game every day, our retina cells are on top of processing incoming light, and even the humble cells in our […]
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