Mary’s room; Thought experiment

Imagine that there lives a brilliant neuroscientist named Mary in a room. The peculiarity of the room is…

Dopamine detox; How to trick your brain into doing hard things

Dopamine detox has become kind of a household name for personality development trainers and life-skill educators. The problem with people who aren’t psychologists doing the things meant to be done by a psychologist is that…

How accurate is ‘eternal sunshine of the spotless mind’?

Is there a difference between feeling depressed and having depression?

The power of ‘Placebo’

If you have ever been to basic medical literature, it is possible that you have heard of this term, ‘placebo’. But you might think that you don’t quite know what it is. Well, you are not alone. Nobody in the world knows what it is, that is if there is no secret genius keeping the…

People who believe they’re ‘Dead’

How do we know we’re alive? Is it the consumption of oxygen around? Or is it the constant rhythm of our heart? With more zombie movies being released than ever before, we know that the answer is complicated. To make things simpler, let me ask it this way; is it possible…

Brain waves; Explained

It is amazing how such a small organ inside our skull can invent the device that you and I are staring at now. The…

Pygmalion effect; explained

In ancient Greece, there was this famous sculptor known as Pygmalion. He once made a statue of a beautiful woman. He fell so much in love with the statue that he wished the statue was real. So he prayed to Goddess Venus to fulfil his wish- day in and day out. On seeing his…

Imposter syndrome; Explained

Have you ever felt that you don’t deserve the things that you have accomplished or to be praised for…

The effect of Meditation on Brain

Meditation has been practiced from ancient times. The earliest records come from India, 1500 B.C. But, it stood the test of time and came out victorious. Meditation is still being practiced worldwide. If anything, it has become more popular with time at least in the…