CURRENT ARTICLES & VIDEOS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
A new study finds that psychological trauma creates changes in children's brains.
(CNN Health 12/9/2009)
more...
Inside an actor's brain - British actor Fiona Shaw performs parts of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land while in an MRI scanner.
(VIDEO on THE GUARDIAN 11/24/09)
more...
How blind people "see" the actions of others - more on mirror neurons.
(Scientific American 11/10/09)
more...
Two recently published studies suggest that older people have
difficulty suppressing stereotypes.
(Truthout 9/30/09)
more...
"Nurture Shock" says that most of what parents have been told is good for kids is wrong.
(Salon 9/18/09)
more...
TEST MY BRAIN website - take part in online cognitive tests to advance brain research!
more...
Recent studies have shown that moving our body in certain ways can improve our ability to think.
(Scientific American Podcast 6/1/09)
more...
Forget about erasing bad memories. Researchers have located the receptor that enables our brain to override or "unlearn" traumatic past experiences.
(SEED Magazine 4/1/09)
more...
Brain scans show how the brain's organization changes from childhood to adulthood.
(Video on LIVE SCIENCE)
more...
A long-term study of cognitive development in lower- and middle-class students found strong links between childhood poverty, physiological stress and adult memory.
The findings support a neurobiological hypothesis for why impoverished children consistently fare worse than their middle-class counterparts in school, and eventually in life.
(WiredMag 3/30/09)
more...
Abuse in early childhood permanently alters how the brain reacts to stress, a Canadian study suggests. Analysis of brain tissue from adults who had committed suicide found key genetic changes in those who had suffered abuse as a child. It affects the production of a receptor known to be involved in stress responses. (BBC2/23/09)
more...