Issue 20 How a Signal is AMPA'fied Find out the role of the NMDA-AMPA receptor system in our ability to associate the occurrence of two events, allowing our brains to learn and form memories.
Issue 20 Criminal Minded To most, the act of killing another human is unthinkable. And yet, for the victims of the thousands of homicides and millions of violent assaults that occur every year, this
Issue 20 Return of the Retina Vision is a sensory system that we rely on heavily, and yet many people face visual impairments. The National Eye Institute recently reported that there were over 4 million people
Issue 20 Screaming into the Void: Evolved and Learned Echolocation Introduction Hunters of the night, unseen during the day, bats are some of the most interesting creatures on the planet. Making up roughly a quarter of all mammal species, they
Issue 20 Old Brain, New Tricks: Neuroenhancement for an Aging Workforce Our Brain Is Being Beaten With the increase in computer performance and accessibility of personal computing, most jobs require computer skills as part of their work. According to an analysis
Issue 20 That's Cringe: The Neuroscience Behind Embarrassment Have you ever been on the brink of sleep when you get hit with a memory of something embarrassing that you did in the past? Maybe even just remembering the
Issue 20 How Pollution Affects the Brain The Pollution Problem: How Pollution is Affecting our Brains Take a deep breath in. Exhale out. Take another deep breath in. Exhale out. Take deep breaths to center and calm
Issue 20 Just Dance, It'll be Okay Dance Movement Therapy: Kinesthetic Approach in Modern MedicineIt starts with the hand lift – the body moves with the melody while the mind thinks about a feeling that has yet to
Issue 20 A Trip to Your Happy Place Naturally occurring hallucinogens have been around for centuries and are used for a myriad of reasons from recreational to spiritual. The first synthetically-made hallucinogen was created in 1938 by a
Issue 20 Treating Glioblastoma Getting a cancer diagnosis is a life-altering event, but few diagnoses are as grim as being told you have a glioblastoma. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very aggressive form of
Issue 19 Harnessing the Power of Sleep Many college students discount the importance of sleep; whether it is to stay up cramming for a test, or to play a new game that was just released, students simply
Issue 19 Holy Molly: Treating PTSD with MDMA Tenuous Times are a Great Time to Get “Rolling”Our ever-changing socio-political landscape creates many feelings of uneasiness, and individual experiences of war, terrorism, or sexual abuse only corroborate these
Issue 19 Decoding Neuroblastoma Late stage neuroblastoma is one of the most difficult childhood cancers to handle because of its poorly understood genetic markers, erratic tumor growth, and difficulty to remove. The primary treatment
Issue 19 Getting a Grip on Dystonia Hold out your hand, make a fist, and squeeze as hard as you can. If you squeeze long enough, you’ll experience some pain. This is a pain that individuals
Issue 19 To See or Not to See The year was 1998 and a blind woman had done the seemingly impossible: she had managed to accurately post a letter in a constantly rotating mail slot. By all accounts,
Issue 19 Brain Cartography: How Mammals Memorize Spatial Maps IntroductionLet’s say someone asked you to memorize a random list of twenty animals. Your first thought, aside from “Why?”, would probably be, “How can I manage to memorize all
Issue 19 Mental Mechanics: How Humans Reason Through a Physical World IntroductionPicture yourself sitting in a coffee shop. When the barista sets a drink down on the counter, you probably don’t expect the drink to fall through the counter’s
Issue 19 Jogging Your Memory: Exercise and Alzheimer's Disease It can be difficult to fit exercise into busy schedules, especially for college students who always seem to have exams and deadlines approaching. However, exercise provides many neurological benefits, such
Issue 18 Stimulating Developments in Parkinson’s Treatment Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms start as a small shake in one of your hands, which gradually spreads and worsens [1]. You attribute it
Issue 18 Searching for the Self For centuries, many have wrestled with what the “self” really is. As a species, we have come to the conclusion that a fundamental part of being human is having a
Issue 18 Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: Not Just an Illusion To some people, the world just doesn’t feel right. They may feel their bodies growing unnaturally large till they fill up the room. They sense that their bodies are
Issue 18 Take a Breath: The Effects of Respiration on Brain Activity Imagine a square. Breathe in deeply for four seconds while ascending one side of the square. Hold your breath for four seconds across the top edge, then breathe out for
Issue 18 Cerebellum Models and Disease Treatments Look at a fixed point. Now turn your head left, then right. What do you notice? Well, as your head moves in one direction, your eyes move the same number
Issue 18 Great Minds Built Alike Giftedness. The term itself carries a sense of ambiguity, as the potential of human ability and the depth of biological, social, psychological, and physical effects of what we call “giftedness”
Issue 18 Misophonia: Symptom or Disorder? A coworker slurps chicken-noodle soup. A classmate refuses to stop coughing. A friend gulps down their coffee as if it were the last cup on earth. Many people find these
