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This is your brain on drugs: how cannabis products affect the brain and body
posted by Jacqueline Mosko
How do Cannabis products affect the brain and body?
Good Vibrations: Inaudible Sounds Can Increase Dancing
posted by Dalia Saklaway
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.
Clearing the fog around brain fog
posted by Sheetal Potdar
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 […]
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
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.
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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