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 Let’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 of these creatures?”
Issue 19 Mental Mechanics: How Humans Reason Through a Physical World Picture 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 surface or bounce off the counter into the air.
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
Issue 18 Locating Loneliness A lone person stands amid a bustling crowd of familiar faces. A glance around at the wide, inviting smiles on the faces of their family and friends should spark the
Issue 18 Livin’ the Dream For most of us, dreaming is a normal and unremarkable facet of life. But, what if this didn’t have to be the case? What if instead of waking up
Issue 18 An Immune Attacker: T-Cells Gone Wrong Our immune system is perhaps one of the most important evolutionary benefits granted to us; our body’s ability to defend against infection and disease is one of the reasons
Issue 15 Models of Memory Imagine waking up one day without any memory. You can probably picture yourself in a state of extreme confusion, not knowing who you are, where you are, or how you
Issue 15 Motor Conversion Disorder Motor conversion disorder is a subset of conversion disorder, which is one of the most common psychiatric diagnoses in neurology; it accounts for at least four percent of all general
Issue 15 Swell! Expansion Microscopy Companies boasting about their diapers’ comfort, mobility, and, most importantly, absorbency, represent the hallmark of any respected diaper brand. If you have ever seen a diaper commercial, you have seen
Issue 15 How the Brain Learns Addiction A quick Google search for “addiction” gives over 800 million results in less than a second. This vast cyberspace includes hotline numbers, treatment facilities, and heartbreaking statistics. According to the
Issue 15 Orchestrating Healing: Conducting Polymers and Neural Interfaces The ability to help treat blindness and restore mobility to those with paralysis is approaching reality as neuroscientists develop neural interfaces to study and aid damaged neural systems [1]. At
Issue 15 Like, Comment, Subscribe The boom of the digital age and social media revolution has been a significant phenomenon in human history. As digital communication continues to become more ubiquitous, social media networks are
Issue 15 FOXO Transcription Factors and Neurodegenerative Diseases Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are tragic conditions that cause the loss of memory and motor control. As these diseases progress, patients eventually forget everything, including
Issue 15 The Spoken Bird With about 10,000 species, birds make up one of the most diverse classes in the animal kingdom.
Issue 15 Computing a Better Diagnosis In the early 20th century, the primary purpose for mental disorder classification was to organize asylums.{[1] The process for categorizing symptoms lacked standardization and thus was inconsistent. Even so,
Issue 15 Biomaterial Scaffolds Spinal cord injury (SCI) occurs at an estimated global incidence rate of 250,000 to 500,000 every year, with causes such as car collisions, falls, and violence [1]. Currently,
Issue 15 Bug Off: The Neural Effects of Insecticides The first thing that comes to mind when people think of insects is probably not their tiny brains. However, scientists have been studying and taking advantage of the relatively simple
