Devon BriggsScience Study: MDMA may have a surprising affect on our ability to learn Inverse - Claire Cameron The drug may return the brain to a teenage "critical period,' re-opening neural plasticity. The drug MDMA has had some highs and lows since United …
Devon BriggsOpinion The Wisdom Your Body Knows The New York TimesThis has been a golden age for brain research. We now have amazing brain scans that show which networks in the brain ramp up during different activities. But this emphasis on the brain has subtly fed illusion
Devon BriggsMindfulness 4 Tips for Meditating When You Don't Have Time to Meditate Inc Magazine - Nate KlempDon't have time to sit in silence for 30 minutes each morning? Here's a way to fit meditation into the midst of your busy day. The science is pretty clear: meditation offers profound benefits for those
Devon Briggs ‘Noise’ in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals Quanta Magazine - Jordana Cepelewicz Activity in the visual cortex and other sensory areas is dominated by signals about body movements, down to little tics and twitches. Scientists are …
Devon Briggs Vegans could be increasing risk of dementia by avoiding fats which protect the brain, nutritionist warns The Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonVegans and vegetarians may be putting themselves at increased risk of mental health problems and dementia because important chemicals which protect the brain are mainly found in meat, fish and eggs, a
Devon Briggs Science as we know it can't explain consciousness – but a revolution is coming The Conversation UK - Philip Goff Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest …
Devon Briggs The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics BBC News - By Philip Ball"I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem." The American physicist Richard Feynman said this about the notorious puzzles paradoxes
Devon BriggsInnovation Neuroscientists Confirm that Steve Jobs Was Decades Ahead of His Time Inc Magazine - Geoffrey JamesJobs wasn't just a technology visionary. He pioneered an iconoclastic management theory. Thirty years ago, the mantra of the business world was "greed is good" because (as the movie Wall Street put it),
Devon BriggsScience A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created scientificamerican.com - Robert Martone We learn from our personal interaction with the world, and our memories of those experiences help guide our behaviors. Experience and memory are …
Devon Briggs Emotion schemas are embedded in the human visual system sciencemag.org J. Tooby, L. Cosmides, The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables, in Handbook of Emotions, …
Devon Briggs Modern Life May Be Shrinking the Hippocampus. Here's How to Grow It realclearscience.com - Ross Pomeroy Locked away within the recesses of your brain is the seahorse-sized hippocampus. Its two interlocking parts are small relative to the rest of the …
Devon Briggs Neuroscience Says Your Body and Mind Get Stronger When You Focus on This 1 Thing Inc Magazine - Geoffrey JamesThe research is clear. You can improve your physical and mental health by thinking this more frequently. Most people realize that the mind and body are connected into a feedback loop. "A healthy mind a
Devon Briggs This 2-Minute Breathing Exercise Can Help You Make Better Decisions, According to a New Study Inc Magazine - Mithu StoroniA 5-2-7 breathing exercise helped people make tough choices with a clear head. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently advised the White House to "Take a deep breath" before making decisions relating to the
Devon Briggs Forgot What It Feels Like to Relax? Try This Science-Based Practice for Dissolving Stress Inc Magazine - Nate KlempHow to experience deep relaxation in the midst of life's chaos. We live in a world that seems to have forgotten how to relax. At work, we rush from one meeting to the next. We use the microscopic gaps
Devon Briggs All Near-Death Experiences Share Surprisingly Common Themes, Say Scientists Inverse - Emma Betuel "I saw angels, and they were singing the most beautiful music I have ever heard." Among those who have had a brush with death, the stories are often …
Devon BriggsInnovation Drinking Wine Helps Your Brain in an Unexpected Way, According to Yale Neuroscience Inc Magazine - Scott MautzWine puts cognitive processing on overload -- which is a good thing. Who doesn't appreciate when science says something you love is healthy to do? For example, my ears perk up when I hear about studies
Devon Briggs ‘It’s Gigantic’: A New Way to Gauge the Chances for Unresponsive Patients The New York Times - By BENEDICT CAREYDoctors have known for years that some patients who become unresponsive after a severe brain injury nonetheless retain a “covert consciousness,” a degree of cognitive function that is important to recovery
Devon Briggs How to lucid dream, and why you'd want to Popular ScienceDreams can often be confusing and blurry experiences. Reduced critical thinking, little to no access to our true memories, and heightened impulsivity and emotions during normal dream states often make
Devon BriggsInnovation How to Remember Anything You Really Want to Remember, Backed by Science Inc Magazine - Jeff HadenLearn faster. Retain more. Science -- and Adam Grant -- says so. It's possible that success is at least partly about whom you know. But success is definitely about what you know, and what you actually
Devon Briggs People taking antidepressants after the age of 60 are 'THREE TIMES more likely to get dementia' dailymail.co.uk - By Sam Blanchard Senior Health Reporter For Mailonline People taking antidepressants in middle or old age could have triple the risk of developing dementia, a study has found. Antidepressants may damage or …
Devon BriggsConsciousness Spiritual science: how a new perspective on consciousness could help us understand ourselves The Conversation UK - Steve Taylor Scientists have long been trying to understand human consciousness – the subjective “stuff” of thoughts and sensations inside our minds. There used …
Devon BriggsScience How our immune system evolved to take control of our decision-making processes newatlas.com - Rich Haridy Two new research papers are shedding light on the fascinating relationship between inflammation and behavior, suggesting our immune system can play a …
Devon BriggsMindfulness How the brains of master meditators change Vox - Ezra KleinRichie Davidson has spent a lifetime studying meditation. He’s studied it as a practitioner, sitting daily, going on retreats, and learning under masters. And he’s pioneered the study of it as a scientist,
Devon Briggs Artificial memories sciencemag.org Activity patterns in distinct neural circuits eventually form coded memories during learning. In theory, replicating the same neural activity could …
Devon Briggs How 50 year olds can have the brain of a 25 year old, according to study Ladders - Taylor Tobin A popular phrase “older and wiser” refers to the fact that we as human beings gather more life experience and more valuable lessons as we age. But …
Devon Briggs Memory of older people improved to level of a 20-year-old thanks to electric treatment The Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonThe memory of older people has been returned to the state of someone in their 20s for the first time by applying electrical stimulation to the brain to reconnect faulty circuits. Scientists at Boston in
Devon Briggs People with autism are less likely to fall for an out-of-body illusion | New Scientist newscientist.com - By Clare Wilson People with autism don’t seem to experience a virtual reality illusion about their body that people who don’t have autism usually fall for. Some …
Devon Briggs Neuroscientists Say They've Identified The Unique Brain Patterns of Consciousness ScienceAlert - DAVINIA FERNáNDEZ-ESPEJO Humans have learned to travel through space, eradicate diseases and understand nature at the breathtakingly tiny level of fundamental particles. Yet …
Devon Briggs Scientists Discover That Our Brains Can Process the World in 11 Dimensions futurism.com - Science Alert Our brains can create multiverse-like structures unlike anything we've ever seen. Neuroscientists have used a classic branch of maths in a totally new …
