Research Brain Connections Are Linked to Positive Traits Our brains have 100 trillion synapses that form complex road maps to our personalities. Oxford…Shriraj SusarlaJanuary 26, 2016
FeaturedResearch How LSD Causes Users to “Trip” One of the most potent and potentially dangerous drugs in circulation today is lysergic acid…Amit KumarJanuary 24, 2016
Research Exercise Can Enhance the Development of New Neurons Is physical exercise beneficial only to the body or is it linked to brain development too?…Shriraj SusarlaJanuary 11, 2016
Research Dopamine and Egalitarian Behavior Recently, scientists at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco have discovered a new effect of…Kate LinDecember 20, 2015
Research Do Memories Influence What We Eat? Many of the everyday decisions we make, such as "What am I going to buy…Amit KumarDecember 5, 2015
Research How We Make Emotional Decisions The human brain is likely the most remarkably complex organ known to man. It controls every…Shriraj SusarlaNovember 20, 2015
Research Newly Found Brain Structure Explains Parrots’ Mimicry As humans, one of our most unique traits is our ability to speak and comprehend…Shriraj SusarlaNovember 13, 2015
Research Basis Behind Age-Related Hearing Loss Most of us have heard the expression "hard of hearing", and we've seen elderly folks…Shriraj SusarlaNovember 5, 2015
Research Recent Events Affect Our Decision-Making the Most As humans, one of our greatest gifts is our ability to consciously make decisions; it's…Shriraj SusarlaOctober 31, 2015
Research Promising New Drug for Parkinson’s Disease: Part II In Part I of this series, I introduced research that discovered the potential of the…Amit KumarSeptember 25, 2015
Research Promising New Drug for Parkinson’s Disease: Part I In an earlier article, I discussed Parkinson's disease (PD) and its devastating implications. To summarize,…Amit KumarSeptember 25, 2015
Research Controlling the Brain The brain is a complex organ that people are constantly trying to understand. Brain circuitry…Raymond HoSeptember 19, 2015
FeaturedResearch Depressive Rumination and the Idling Brain Do you constantly replay or obsess over negative situations? This disposition, known to the world…Amit KumarSeptember 15, 2015
Research New Insight Into Treating Traumatic Brain Injuries: Part II As anyone who follows collegiate or professional football can attest to, concussions, one of the…Amit KumarSeptember 8, 2015
FeaturedResearch New Gene That Regulates Sleep Has Been Discovered For the majority of us, we need seven to eight hours of sleep to get…Amit KumarSeptember 8, 2015
Research Making Connections: Linking the Brain and the Immune System Despite hundreds of years of research on the human body, a new discovery at the University of…Alex KimSeptember 5, 2015
Research Creating “Ghosts” in the Lab Imagine walking down a dimly lit hallway at night or a pitch black alleyway. You feel…Shriraj SusarlaAugust 22, 2015
Public Health Study Shows Link Between Poverty and Brain Development It has long been suspected that children born into wealthier families receive a higher quality…Angeline NguyenAugust 4, 2015
Research Can Sleep Help Us Better Learn and Memorize Information? As a college student, getting an adequate amount of sleep is extremely challenging. Having to…Amit KumarJuly 9, 2015
Research New Neurons in the Adult Brain It was once thought that, in adulthood, the brain stops growing new neurons. It has…Brynn KronJuly 2, 2015