Issue 23 Locating Creativity Let’s take a short quiz: look at an object and close one eye. Which eye is left open – your right or your left? Next, put one hand on your head. Which hand did you use?
Issue 23 Of Mice and Men: Rodent Models in Neuroscience Research In Denmark, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have identified specific genetic predispositions in mice that eventually impair the development of oligodendrocytes, crucial cells that produce the myelin sheath.
Issue 23 The Neuroscience of ADHD In both public and medical understanding, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is often thought of as a simple attention deficit. However, continuing research has found that it is a far more complex disorder.
Issue 23 Kinesiology of Balance: Understanding Implications of Targeted Dance Therapy on Proprioception For some, balancing on one leg is easy. However, take away a person’s sight and this task becomes more challenging. Strip away a person’s sense of hearing as well, and the task that used to be “easy” is now quite difficult. How do dancers make the act of balancing seem so effortless?
Issue 23 Fever Dreams When the world first entered lockdown at the end of March 2020, our lives were turned upside down. Days bled into nights spent inside the same walls, with no separation between work and home. If we went out, it was to a masked, nightmarish world full of empty streets and dark storefront windows.
Issue 23 Virtual Reality Treatments for Psychosis Macbeth, Black Swan, and the centuries of art in between serve as a testimony: humanity’s fascination with psychosis is a long-lasting one. Behind the craft, however, lies a wildly misunderstood and misrepresented mental disorder.
Issue 23 The Neuroscience of Inequality One of the fundamental mysteries in neuroscience is how the brain develops and adapts to its experiences regardless of genetics. It has become a hot topic in media from documentaries like Three Identical Strangers...
Issue 23 Understanding the LGBTQIA+ Experience One of the most astounding things about the brain is that it contains our entire mind. All of our memories, thoughts, feelings, and preferences are contained within this mass of flesh that is, well, just meat.
