Notes on the brain, brain health, and what we are building.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is advancing beyond cognitive research into clinical practice, driving innovations in neurosurgical planning, biomarker discovery, and personalized therapeutic monitoring.
ReadHow electroencephalography captures abnormal neuronal hypersynchrony, differentiates seizure types, and addresses global diagnostic gaps.
ReadSocial media has turned the vagus nerve into a magic switch. The actual nerve is more interesting, and more limited, than the hype.
ReadGrief feels like physical pain because, in the brain, it largely is. A short look at what happens when we lose someone, and why it takes so long.
ReadTrauma does not just affect how you feel. It physically changes the structure of your brain. The good news is that those changes are not permanent.
ReadEveryone dreams. Not everyone remembers it. The difference is mostly down to what happens in the few seconds after you wake up.
ReadIt is not a character flaw. Your brain has a decision-making budget, and by the time you are hungry, exhausted, or overwhelmed, it is completely overdrawn.
ReadYou are not lazy. You do not lack discipline. When you try to lose weight, your brain launches a biological counter-attack. Here is what is actually happening inside your head.
ReadThat 'gut feeling' is more real than you think. Scientists have discovered your gut and brain are in constant conversation, and it affects everything.
ReadAI can now reconstruct what you are hearing, watching, or imagining from a brain scan. Not perfectly. Not without cooperation. But well enough to change neuroscience.
ReadCalendar age tells you how long you have been alive. Brain age tells you something different — and often more useful.
ReadA look at the metabolic cost of cognition and why the human brain is so expensive to run.
ReadA short meditation on the scale of the human brain, and what we still do not understand about it.
ReadDaydreaming feels like doing nothing, but your brain is actually running one of its most powerful systems. Scientists call it the default mode network.
ReadA landmark study found that lacking social connection carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Here's what loneliness actually does to the brain.
ReadIt's not a lack of willpower. Your brain is literally wired to keep doing what it has always done. Here's what's actually going on inside your head.
ReadEvery night, your brain runs a biological cleaning cycle that flushes out toxic waste. Miss enough sleep and that waste starts to build up in ways that can last a lifetime.
ReadStanford researchers built an AI that reads a single night of sleep data and predicts your risk of diseases years before any symptoms show up.
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