Resolutions like going to the gym more often or losing 20 pounds are based on trying to control the feeling that “there’s something wrong with me being just as […]
Hope: The Key to Using the Brain Well for Poverty Reduction & Universal Welfare
The things that keep people caught in a cycle of poverty are not solely monetary. And getting out of that cycle is not necessarily about money either. Dr. Joseph LeDoux […]
The Trouble with Triggers
Suddenly, almost without warning, I can be somewhere else–at a different time, a different place. It’s like I’m whisked away, held hostage and traveling, strapped into the seat of an […]
Changing Ourselves to Change the World
Our brains adapt to routine, making the same old thing seem comfortable and reassuring while they resist change which feels, of course, uncomfortable, weird–just not the way it should be. […]
The Positive Effects of Fatty Foods
For a long time now I’ve had a digestive disorder, which means the only way for me to eat well is to have a very restrictive diet. And yes, it […]
Sensory Overload | The Importance of Downtime in a Sensory Stimulating Society
Today an overstimulating environment is par for the course: Internet. Television. Traffic. iPhones. iPads. Topped off only by our endless to do lists. But overstimulation wrecks havoc on the body-mind […]
Prejudice in the Brain | Can You Break Your Biased Habits
Most of us suspect or realize that our brains have more to do with our behaviors than we know. And even if we’re clueless about that, science is always offering […]
december 2011
Your Brain on Computers Follow five neuroscientists on a remote river trip to learn how the brain responds to an absence of technology. Representing various backgrounds, the researchers all, unsuprisingly, […]
Creation on Command
Original article on SEED, written by Jonathan Lehrer, Posted May 6, 2009. Riffing, improv, winging it…scientists and Johns Hopkins University and Harvard took a deeper look at how creative minds–musicians, […]