Category Archives: Neuroscience

September 01

Mind Over Matter: The Effect of Positive Mindsets on Performance and Well-being

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This article highlights the fascinating effects that positive mindsets and self affirmations have on human performance and well-being.

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August 17

How to Save a Life

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How can we help people suffering with suicidal thoughts better?

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July 27

To believe or not to believe: belief effects and the placebo.

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A book called ‘The Secret’ caused a real buzz when it was released in 2006. It claimed that you could use the power of your mind to attract and ‘manifest’ all the awesome things you wanted in life. Suddenly, everyone was all about “manifesting their dreams,” as if it were a magical spell. Although most […]

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June 29

Headbang It Out

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Learn how your favorite rock and roll music could help you process emotions by understanding your brain’s basic responses

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June 01

Science meets Serenity: Benefits of Sauna Use on the Brain

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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.

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April 27

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

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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 […]

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March 30

Good Vibrations: Inaudible Sounds Can Increase Dancing

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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.

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March 23

Clearing the fog around brain fog

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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 […]

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March 12

Fighting fire with fire: How we can use opioids to fight opioid addiction

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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 […]

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February 09

Boredom and the Brain

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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 […]

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