Sandra ClarkThe Brain Why Do Skulls Have So Many Bones? (It's Loads More Than You Think)Live Science - Mindy Weisberger How many bones are in your skull? You might guess that animal skulls are made up of two bones: the upper region of the skull and the lower jaw. But …
Sandra ClarkTchaikovsky A Musical Brain May Help Us Understand Language And Appreciate TchaikovskyNPR - Jon HamiltonWhat sounds like music to us may just be noise to a macaque monkey. That's because a monkey's brain appears to lack critical circuits that are highly sensitive to a sound's pitch, a team reported Monday
Sandra ClarkWomen's Health New Report Discourages Adults From Using Brain Health SupplementsPrevention - Devin Tomb This morning, the Global Counsel on Brain Health released a report concluding that dietary supplements do not improve brain health or prevent …
Sandra ClarkDepression Depression and Sleep: Understanding the Connectionhopkinsmedicine.org Which comes first? “Either one can be the starting point,” says Johns Hopkins sleep researcher Patrick H. Finan, Ph.D. “Poor sleep may create …
Sandra ClarkThe Brain Can You Reshape Your Brain's Response To Pain?NPR - Patti NeighmondJeannine, who is 37 and lives in Burbank, Calif., has endured widespread pain since she was 8. She has been examined by dozens of doctors, but none of their X-rays, MRIs or other tests have turned up evidence
Sandra ClarkThe Brain Rat brains provide even more evidence our brains operate near tipping pointArs Technica - Jennifer Ouellette "Avalanches" in electrical activity between neurons provide a telltale signature. The human brain doesn't seem like it would have much in common with …
Sandra ClarkLsd Engineer repairing vintage 1960s synth goes on NINE-HOUR acid trip after touching knob coated in LSDthesun.co.uk - Patrick Knox AN ENGINEER repairing a 1960s era synthesizer accidentally went on a nine-hour acid trip after absorbing LSD left on the machine's knob. Eliot Curtis …
Sandra ClarkAmerican Philosophy The neurobiology of consciencenature.com - Nicholas A. Christakis An exploration of the science behind our morality from philosopher Patricia Churchland is illuminating and grounded, finds Nicholas A. …
Sandra ClarkThe Brain The Brain Can Give Birth To New Cells Throughout Life, Study FindsForbes - Alice G. Waltonstudy from the University of Illinois at Chicago finds that brain cells can form into one’s nineties, even if one has cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease (though at a much decelerated rate). The
Sandra Clark Why do some people have ‘two brains’?BBC FutureThe father of “split-brain syndrome” explains how researchers discovered our “two brains”. Take a look at your hands. Stick out your thumb as if you are trying to hitch a with your right hand. Now, try
Sandra ClarkThe Brain How to Stop Thinking About Something That's Bothering YouInc Magazine - Amy MorinDwelling on something unpleasant will drag you down and keep you stuck. Use this strategy to get some relief. There's a strong connection between the way you think and the way you feel. And it goes both
Sandra Clark Women's brains work better in warmer offices, study findsThe Guardian - Australian Associated PressScientists have raised the stakes in the battle of the sexes over office air conditioning by discovering women’s brains work better at higher temperatures. Men, on the other hand, work better when the
Sandra Clark Three Simple Interventions Increase Survival After A Severe Head Injury, Study FindsForbes - Robert Glatter, MD“And this means that these life-saving best-practices can be done in essentially any EMS system because they don’t require expensive and sophisticated alterations in equipment or training,” added Spaite.
Sandra ClarkPain How The Brain Shapes Pain And Links Ouch With EmotionNPR - Jon HamiltonWhen Sterling Witt was a teenager in Missouri, he was diagnosed with scoliosis. Before long, the curvature of his spine started causing chronic pain. It was "this low-grade kind of menacing pain that through
Sandra ClarkLong-form Journalism The Troubled History of PsychiatryThe New Yorker - Jerome GroopmanChallenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder. Modern medicine can be seen as a quest to understand
Sandra ClarkNews Exploring The Link Between Inflammation And Depression: Study Suggests Women Are Affected The MostForbes - David DiSalvostudy suggest we could be getting closer to an answer. For women in particular, it seems higher levels of inflammation can lead to an underlying condition that fuels depression. That condition is called
Sandra ClarkNews Scientists start to unravel how the brain forgetsAxios - Alison Snyder We are desperate to fight forgetting — it scares us, it annoys us, and it can cost us. Yet there are also memories we want to forget. Why it matters: …
Sandra Clark I thought I knew about my mental illness. But the truth shocked meThe Guardian - David HarewoodPsychosis affects roughly one in 100 people every year, and each case is different It’s been nearly two years since I tweeted that when I was in my early 20s, I had a breakdown and was sectioned. I didn’t
Sandra Clark Firing Up the Neural SymphonyThe New York Times - By BENEDICT CAREYThe research on brain stimulation is advancing so quickly, and the findings are so puzzling, that a reader might feel tempted to simply pre-order a genius cap from Amazon, to make sense of it all later.
Sandra Clark Striking study reveals how dietary fats enter the brain and cause depressionnewatlas.com - Rich Haridy An intriguing new study, led by scientists from the University of Glasgow, suggests there is a direct causative link between eating a high-fat diet …
Sandra Clark Suicidal thoughts may be detectable by brain scan, scientists findThe Telegraph - By Sarah KnaptonSuicidal thoughts may be detectable in the brain, scientists believe, after finding a chemical soars when a person is considering ending their own life. Brain scans of dozens of people at risk of suicide
Sandra ClarkLong-form Journalism If God Is Dead, Your Time Is EverythingThe New Yorker - James WoodAt a recent conference on belief and unbelief hosted by the journal Salmagundi, the novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson confessed to knowing some good people who are atheists, but lamented that she
Sandra Clark How Your Brain Keeps Your Body Fitscientificamerican.com - Get-Fit Guy Brock Armstrong I’ve been trying out various brain training regimens for a few years now. But lately, I’ve been really digging into a series of games that you play …
Sandra Clark Neuroscientist Dr Hannah Critchlow: ‘Changing the way that you think is cognitively costly’The Guardian - Ian TuckerIf you ask long-term couples to think about their partner, their brain will react in the same way as a drug addict’s Dr Hannah Critchlow is a neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge. Her debut book,
Sandra Clark Why what we think we know about schizophrenia is wrongThe Guardian - Nathan FilerThere is no uncontroversial language when talking about mental illness – and that includes the phrase 'mental illness' The language of diagnosis, for better or worse, has the power to profoundly alter
Sandra Clark People are dying because we misunderstand how those with addiction thinkVox - Brendan de KenesseyThe American opioid epidemic claimed 42,300 lives in 2016 alone. While the public policy challenge is daunting, the problem isn’t that we lack any effective treatment options. The data shows that we could
Sandra Clark Researchers examine how our brain generates consciousness—and loses itmedicalxpress.com - Robert Florida Medically-induced loss of consciousness (mLOC) during anesthesia is associated with a break-down of brain connectivity at the anatomical macro …
Sandra ClarkCulture Brain-Machine Interfaces Could Give Us All SuperpowersWIRED - Arielle Pardes One rainy day, Bill was riding his bicycle when the mail truck in front of him suddenly stopped. Bill didn't. The crash left him paralyzed from the …
Sandra ClarkMillennials' health plummets after the age of 27: Study finds the generation has unprecedented rates of diabetes, depression,dailymail.co.uk - Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor At least if you're a millennial, chronic conditions and diseases start to rear their heads in your late-20s, and from there things continue to …
