Psychedelic Journal Club: A Whole New Worldview
A commentary on the article “Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs,” by Christopher Timmermann et al., published in Scientific Reports.…
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Author: Sean Noah
Psychedelic Journal Club: How Do Psychedelics Work?
A commentary on the article “REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics” by Robin Carhart-Harris and Karl Friston, published in Pharmacological Reviews.…
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Psychedelic Journal Club: Microdosing for Mental Wellbeing
A commentary on the article “Adults who microdose psychedelics report health related motivations and lower levels of anxiety and depression compared to non-microdosers by Joseph M. Rootman et al., published…
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La Educación en Neurociencias en la Época del COVID-19: Una Entrevista con la Dra. Megan Peters Sobre la Academia Neuromatch
Artículo original: Neuroscience Education in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Megan Peters about Neuromatch Academy, Sean Noah
Traducido por Daniela Semerjian
En marzo del 2020, mi investigación…
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Neuro Cartilla: La Atención
Artículo original: Neuro Primer: Attention, Sean Noah
Traducido por Sebastián Martínez
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Imaginémonos soportar una clase a las 2 de la tarde en un día sofocante a principios de junio.…
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Book Review: The Spike
Recently I asked one of my faculty advisors if he would ever write a popular science book. He’s a bestselling author in his own right, having written a textbook that…
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Neuroscience Education in the Time of COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Megan Peters about Neuromatch Academy
In March 2020, my research stopped. The cognitive neuroscience lab where I work was shuttered because our research involves collecting behavioral and neuroimaging data from human participants – something impermissible…
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Book Review: Remembering
In the early 20th century, Cambridge psychologist Frederic Bartlett radically reformulated the concept of memory. Until then the classical view, the earliest form of which could be traced back to…
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Neuro Primer: Attention
magine suffering through a 2pm class on a sweltering day in early June. Summer’s almost arrived, and it’s hard not to let your mind wander away from the dull information…
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Machine Yearning: The Rise of Thoughtful Machines
n the mid twentieth century, artificial intelligence researchers invented a new type of computational system that could detect patterns in images – a daunting task for previous technology. Because this…
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The inescapable nightmare of fatal familial insomnia
A family curse
During the early 1980’s, an Italian physician was investigating a mysterious and dreadful disease that had long plagued his family. In earlier generations, this disease had killed…
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Neuromorphic Engineering: Biomimicry from the Brain
hat is the brain? Researchers conceive of neurons as information processing units, meaning that the circuits formed by neurons support logical and mathematical operations. In this view, the brain is…
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