June 01

Science meets Serenity: Benefits of Sauna Use on the Brain

The reason that saunas have been used for thousands of years and across the world, is because of their profound and proven health benefits. Heat exposure has been proven to have phenomenal effects on our bodies, and some of the most fascinating of those effects are the health benefits that heat exposure has on the human brain.

May 25

The Brain’s Self

What are you to your brain?

May 04

Shape of you – neuroscience of body image perception

The rise of Ozempic “Everybody looks so great. When I look around this room, I can’t help but wonder: Is Ozempic right for me?” Jimmy Kimmel joked during his Oscars monologue earlier this year.  Ozempic, or Wegovy, or Mounjaro, has become quite popular in the last year. A drug primarily used for treating type 2 […]

April 27

Screaming into the void: What plants are trying to tell us

Imagine walking through a field on a hot, dry summer day. There is nobody around and the world is blissfully quiet – at least, you think it is. If only you could hear sounds at ultrasonic frequency, you would in fact hear loud “screaming” coming from all around you. You would hear the surrounding plants […]

April 20

This is your brain on drugs: how cannabis products affect the brain and body

How do Cannabis products affect the brain and body?

April 13

Your Brain on Stories

The brain is wired for stories, but what exactly happens to it when we hear and tell stories?

March 30

Good Vibrations: Inaudible Sounds Can Increase Dancing

What is that feeling that we get in our body when we listen to EDM or lower-pitched music in general, and what causes it? It turns out, based on a study by Daniel J. Cameron and others, that it is possible for low-pitched inaudible sounds to directly cause people to move and dance more even though they can’t even hear it. This article further describes this phenomenon and explains the nueroscience behind why we feel music and move more when we listen to low-frequency sounds.

March 23

Clearing the fog around brain fog

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

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

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 […]