Besties Share Everything – Even Their Brains
Friendship is a strong bond between two people. A connection so deep, it can even be physically detected in their brains. Want to know how? Check out this article! Continue reading Besties Share Everything – Even Their Brains
Whose Insight is it Anyway.
We all have brains. Forgive the mundane. However, let’s re-familiarize with ala Brain Extraordinaire. There is no instance in our annual innovation reviews or daily social media existence, we miss highlighting the extraordinary prowess of the brain as an information processing system. Our logical mind. We exalt it. “I think, therefore I am”. And things that our rational mind finds fiddly, we ask Siri for … Continue reading Whose Insight is it Anyway.
Time Perception in Schizophrenia: Do schizophrenic patients perceive time differently?
Time perception distortions in schizophrenia is an increasingly known phenomenon, which dates back to the beginning of the last century. This article addresses time perception in schizophrenia from a neuroscientific perspective. Continue reading Time Perception in Schizophrenia: Do schizophrenic patients perceive time differently?
The Dark Side of our Brain
Sometimes, we feel hopeless. For some people this hopelessness is inescapable, or rather their brain tells them so. How can thought of ending one’s existence arise in our brain which is so trained on survival? In this post we want to look at the neurobiology that underlies this phenomenon. Continue reading The Dark Side of our Brain
Meet the Organoids: Growing Human Brains in a Petri Dish
As Madeline Lancaster lifts a clear plastic dish into the light, roughly a dozen clumps of tissue the size of small baroque pearls bob in a peachcolored liquid. These are cerebral organoids, which possess certain features of a human brain in the first trimester of development—including lobes of cortex (Russ Juskalian, MIT Technology Review). Continue reading Meet the Organoids: Growing Human Brains in a Petri Dish
Can I Trust My Brain?
The growing popularity of conspiracy theories raises questions about the psychological and physiological causes that lead to our tendency to believe in them. Why are some people more susceptible to conspiracy theories than the other? Let’s try to figure it out from a neuroscientific point of view! Continue reading Can I Trust My Brain?
SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD): A “WINTER BLUES” IN OUR BRAIN?
Every winter the cycle repeats itself: we look outside our windows and despair to the sight of a cloudy winter sky, with no trace of the sunny days. But the familiar “winter blues” feelings might not be just a “phase”: for some people such periods of low light exposure represent a serious problem to face, and that’s where the term “seasonal affective disorder” (SAD) comes in place. Why does SAD start, and can a look at the neurobiology of the brain help us to understand it more? Continue reading SEASONAL AFFECTIVE DISORDER (SAD): A “WINTER BLUES” IN OUR BRAIN?
Is psychosis just a dream? Links between schizophrenia and dreaming
„The lunatic is a wakeful dreamer.“ -Immanuel Kant Immanuel Kant was not the first and not the last one hinting at a relationship between mental disorder and dreaming. Others, such as Schopenhauer were more specific in their statements, linking the dream state not to mental disorders in general, but to the condition of psychosis („A dream is a short-lasting psychosis, and a psychosis is … Continue reading Is psychosis just a dream? Links between schizophrenia and dreaming
What money does in your brain: Insights from the field of Neuroeconomics
The emerging field of Neuroeconomics is making fast advances in helping us understand the neural underpinning of how, for example, we make purchase decisions. Continue reading What money does in your brain: Insights from the field of Neuroeconomics
Ready-made Free Will: Decoding Voluntary Choices
Do you believe in free will? – striking experiment results in real life underlying a sensational Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Netflix show Continue reading Ready-made Free Will: Decoding Voluntary Choices
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