Issue 22 Light it Up: Optogenetics Neuroscience can only go as far as its research tools will take it. All science relies on experimentation and observation, which are difficult to accomplish when studying complex biological systems such as the brain.
Issue 22 Feeling the Beat: The Neuropsychology of Music and Empathy While we wait in elevator rides or drive to the grocery store, the majority of us don’t sit in silence: we go about our day-to-day lives accompanied by songs and soundtracks.
Issue 22 Don't Forget Your Fats If you’ve gone grocery shopping recently, you’ve likely come across the word “keto-friendly” labeled on many foods. These foods are all marketed as low-carbohydrate and accompany the ketogenic diet (KD).
Issue 22 Don't Rain on my Parade Look outside, what do you see? What you see outside varies greatly depending on where you live and what time of the year it is. If it’s summertime, you might look outside and see bright skies and sunlight.
Issue 22 COVID on the Brain A sore throat. A cough. Difficulty breathing. In the post-2020 era, these symptoms are readily identifiable and directly related to an infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has taken the world by storm.
Issue 22 Love, Sex, and Brains Between different individuals and cultures, the spectrum of human wants, needs, actions, and responses varies almost infinitely. But despite these differences, one phenomenon seems to persist across the branching history
Issue 22 Lean, Mean, Psychoactive Machine We Have Lean On the Beat Over the last thirty years, hip-hop music has risen from its humble beginnings in inner-city neighborhoods to the center of the mainstream music stage.
Issue 22 Parallel Processors: Comparing the Brain and the Computer Introduction With billions of computations per second, our brains are the most complex and intelligent entities the world has ever known. So intelligent, in fact, that we’ve been able