Hippocampus

Desynchronized brain activity may be the key to Psilocybin-assisted treatment of Depression

In 1957, TIME magazine shocked readers with the cover story “Seeing the Magic Mushroom,” introducing most Americans, for the first time, to psychedelics [1]. The Controlled Substances Act, denoting psilocybin a Schedule 1 drug, halted the first wave of western psychedelic research in 1970,

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Synchronized Sleep Enhances Memory Consolidation

Have you ever crammed for an exam the night before and woken up with new information embedded in your mind? Almost like a magic spell, your biological diagrams, calculus equations, or chemistry reactions have been ingrained in your memory as you slumbered away. Perhaps,

Issue 26

Improving Memory through Slow Wave Sleep

In the ocean, the form water will take at any given time may seem unpredictable to someone not paying attention, though there are patterns that can be identified and relied upon with some certainty.

Issue 25

The Richest Palace is in Your Brain

Imagine you are given 60 seconds to memorize 52 cards, with only one chance to look at the deck and no room for errors. That may seem like a lot to memorize in a short amount of time—a feeling shared by...

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 3

In the Memory of Henry Molaison

Scientists have grappled with the question of how memories are stored for quite some time. Today many technologies exist that allow for a variety of approaches to answering this question,

The Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal

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