You can’t really “train” your brain. Here’s what you can do instead.
A lot of people are looking for ways to improve, preserve, and prolong their brain’s health. Just look at the ...
Tag: Neuroscience
What would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?
Imagine you’re alone in a room. No phone. No windows. No way out.There’s only one thing in there with you: ...
The logic of anxiety
Anxiety is one of those words that means a hundred different things depending on who’s using it. A clinical disorder. ...
One good thing the Trump administration might actually do for science
The Trump administration’s scientific agenda has been widely characterized — rightly so — as a war on scientific progress. But, ...
How the brain builds your world of sound
In the 1970s, psychologist Diana Deutsch was experimenting with a synthesizer, when she heard something strange. “It seemed to me ...
Our understanding of memory is all wrong
Memory defines us in so many ways, but it’s not exactly what we think it is.We tend to imagine memory ...
What if your earbuds could read your mind?
For the past few months, when I really needed to get something done, I put on a special pair of ...
The one thing the Trump administration got very right
If there’s anything the Trump administration has gotten unequivocally right (besides inadvertently helping Mark Carney become prime minister of Canada), ...
Is your brain your political destiny?
You often hear about “ideology” these days.Even if that word isn’t mentioned, it’s very much what’s being discussed. When President ...
Could this $10 weightlifting supplement be a depression treatment?
Creatine — yes, the favorite of gym rats everywhere, a supplement many of us have taken ourselves — is a ...
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