By Shiri Spitz Siddiqi
You’re standing at a railroad switch as a runaway trolley hurtles toward five innocent people lying trapped in its path. Out of harm’s way lies one…
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An essay by John Zhou
On an overcast afternoon in November, 2022, a teenage boy pages through a glossy video game manual in his bedroom in the Saitama prefecture of…
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Artículo original: No Somos Tan Racionales Como Creemos: La Filosofía Política y La Ciencia de la Irracionalidad, Daniel Toker
Los científicos cognitivos han sabido por décadas que los humanos son…
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By Martina Nonni
Emotions are important aspects of our lives and everyday experiences. While scientists agree that they do exist, they don’t seem to agree on much else. Researchers are…
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By: Justin McMahon
Academic laboratories and biotech companies around the world are racing to develop next-generation therapeutics. At the forefront of this scientific innovation is gene therapy: a medical approach…
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By Amy Than
Neuroscience is very interdisciplinary! Here is an incomplete list of careers that folks who are passionate about the study of the nervous system tend to excel in.…
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By Vincent A Medina
Vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch. When combined, these form a single coherent perception of the world around us. The combination of senses for this purpose…
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In this new infographic, Gil Torten discusses single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). Read more to find out about what this process looks like and how scRNA-seq can be used in…
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Written by James Cole
“It is a test [that] genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
T.S. Eliot
A couple years ago I found myself in perhaps one of…
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Written by Carolyn Amir
How has the internet changed your life? How has social media? For many, social media represents a way to stay in touch with old friends, organize…
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Data literacy is the ability to understand the results and process of collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting data. This skill is becoming increasingly relevant with internet-driven improvements to data accessibility…
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A commentary on the article “Flashback phenomena after administration of LSD and psilocybin in controlled studies with healthy participants,” by Felix Müller et al., published in Psychopharmacology.
Following psychedelics’ explosive…
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A commentary on the article “Models of psychedelic drug action: modulation of cortical- subcortical circuits” by Manoj Doss et al., published in Brain.
Even though the “psychedelic renaissance” is underway,…
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When you think of researchers growing “mini-brains,” you might picture a mad scientist out of a sci-fi or horror movie. But the reality looks quite different. Cerebral organoids, often colloquially…
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From a dad hugging his daughter who lost a sports game to a husband trying to alleviate his wife’s distress by listening to her, humans have the capacity to adopt…
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"Paraphrasing Einstein, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Take everything you know, everything you believe, and everything about life and existence. What does it all…
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While writing this article, I am lying in the grass, which is as green as the caipirinha I am drinking under the blue sky. This sounds great, doesn’t it? I’m…
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We are told today that science and technology are progressing at an unprecedented rate, that researchers continue to shovel coal into the runaway train of scientific advancement, not seeing the…
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I was in my junior year of college at Ohio State University when my roommate roped me into joining an organization called 4 Paws for Ability, a group that trains…
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What happens when your mind disconnects from all outside sensations? First, you undress, put in earplugs, and step into a floatation tank, the water warmed to the temperature of your…
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Picture this: You are encountering some dilemma. You call your friend, and they advise you to go with your “gut feelings”. These are perceived to be some sort of miraculous…
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What can we learn and implement from neuroscience to support long-term vocabulary retention in adult language learners?
Brain and Language
Neuroscience focuses on how different regions of the brain work…
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In his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain”, the neurologist Oliver Sacks stated that music can “calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize…
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As social beings, humans have the ability to adapt their behavior to fit their social context. Whether we are meeting new classmates, conducting a job interview or helping a friend…
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Spanish Translation also available here: La Barrera Hematoencefálica – ¿Realmente funciona como su nombre indica?
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One of the mantras in neuroscience is that the blood brain barrier (BBB) protects…
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Learning to avoid a threat as well as knowing when something is no longer dangerous is crucial for an organism’s survival. Being able to shake off fearful memories after a…
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Most of us have heard of the placebo effect – the phenomenon in which patients experience improvements in health simply due to their belief in the efficacy of a medical…
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Advances in bioengineering and robotics have delivered incredible devices capable of partially restoring functionality to those who suffer from movement related disabilities. However, this technology is not perfect. Patients still…
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Open data sharing efforts can advance research by analyzing existing data for new trends and fostering collaborations across institutions and countries, which are especially useful for complex diseases such as…
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Mass incarceration is a public health crisis with particular relevance to the neuroscience community. Much of our work as neuroscientists revolves around the criminal justice system, including mental illness, adolescent…
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A year into my doctoral training at UCLA, I escape the noisy hustle and bustle of Ronald Reagan Hospital at midday, into a clean and quiet room in the Intensive…
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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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Mental abilities change throughout life, first as a result of brain maturation and later with the ageing of brain cells and their billions of complex interconnections. As we age, our…
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Nowadays, experiencing shocking and dangerous situations in which you think yours or someone else’s life is in danger is not rare. People who are exposed to, or have witnessed life-threatening…
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Nearly everything we do requires our brain in some way. Eating a bagel? That uses your brain. Reading this article? That’s using your brain, too. All those questionable decisions you…
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Philosophers and neuroscientists agree that if there is an objective reality, human beings can’t perceive it: philosophers refer to objective reality as a perception independent of any conscious awareness. Neuroscientists…
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A full interview with Donald Hoffman follows this book review
Does the moon still exist when you’re not looking at it? In a provocative new book titled The Case Against…
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Our brains are extremely rich in fat. Indeed, about two thirds of the human brain is composed of fat, 35% of which consists of essential polyunsaturated fatty acids. What are…
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You probably don’t remember anything from when you were an infant. However, chances are that you experienced some pain immediately after you were born. You might have needed an IV…
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Motivation can be a hard thing to come by. Whether at home, at school or at work, most of us have been in a situation where we know exactly what…
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What exactly do we consider “consciousness”? How much do we know about it already and how much more do we have to learn? Joel Frohlich of Knowing Neurons recently spoke…
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We are surrounded by an abundance of delicious food. Throughout the developed world, cooking shows saturate our televisions and streaming video feeds advertise greasy burgers and decadent chocolates. Our addiction…
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Imagine listening to your favorite song, how it makes you feel, and the flood of memories the sounds bring with them. Music is well known for its ability to evoke…
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It is that time of the year again. Whilst the Southern Hemisphere is coping with the sweltering heat of the summer, cold is sweeping across the rest of the globe,…
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Last year, our post “Can Neuroscience Explain the Mandela Effect?” by Caitlin Aamodt soaked up attention like a sponge and was resyndicated widely across the web, landing on pages such as…
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Astronauts are no strangers to the harsh and wild conditions of outer space. From ionizing radiation to microgravity, these space explorers are exposed to a myriad of stressors that play…
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