snippet Hungry, Angry, and Hangry: How Our Internal Signals Shape Emotions and Sensation Imagine you have classes from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm and have no time to eat anything. You're hangry.
Issue 31 Dummy Treatment, Real Results: The Placebo Effect The term placebo comes from the Latin phrase “I shall please,” but today, it typically means a sham medical treatment. Despite being inactive, placebo treatments can still have significant beneficial effects on patients, known as the placebo effect.
Issue 31 Narcissism: Myth Turned Reality The most well-known form of narcissism is grandiose narcissism, which is characterized by heightened self-confidence, entitlement, and lack of empathy.
Issue 29 Mirror, Mirror Have you ever flinched when watching a character get hurt on TV? Yawned when someone near you yawned? These reactions may be due to unique brain cells known as mirror neurons.
Issue 26 Navigating the Cosmos of Whole-Brain Imaging Mapping the (B)rainforest Neurons, with their long axons and countless branching dendrites, are often colloquially spoken of in the language of trees. To extend the metaphor likens the brain
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 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 1 Dreaming of Reconstruction As research in the field of perceptual experience advances, neuroscientists continue to uncover new methods to see through the eyes of human beings – almost literally. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging
