Brain

Hey Google: "What does left brain dominant mean?" Your brain is split into two hemispheres, simply designated ‘left’ and ‘right’. Both hemispheres have distinct but equally important functions. To understand the role each hemisphere…

Loneliness is genetic, and beatable. It is a common human experience. It's those negative emotions that one feels when their needs for social connections are not met. These may include sadness, frustration, shame and desperation.…

Words To That Effect #17 | The 10% Brain Myth (from Self-Help to Pulp Fiction to Hollywood) Do we use only 10% of our brain capacity? (Hint: No) “It is estimated that most human beings only use 10% of the brain’s capacity. Imagine if we…

Laid flat on my back in excruciating, debilitating, nauseating pain, each blood vessel sensitive as a xylophone key repeatedly being thumped off-tempo, I think of the cliché; ‘I would not wish this on my worst enemy.’ And as I debate…

This September, scientists at Trinity College Dublin made a new breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research.  By studying the blood-brain barrier—the BBB, a term used to describe the properties in the brain’s blood vessels that strictly regulate…

Cannabis is always a talking point, even in the world of science, which might actually say something about our culture that we are so fascinated with drugs… but that’s a topic for another post. Today, I want to talk about the latest paper…

This seemingly stupid question is not as straightforward as you might think. Well, of course we do need a brain but it’s not so clear how much of our brain we need to actually survive and function somewhat normally. Recently, doctors in…

In two words, not yet… A recent article published in the journal Science by Robert Singer’s lab at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York has been picked up by the media (particularly by blogging websites such as IFLS …