Neuroscience

Neuroscientists know that pregnant mothers’ brains change in ways that appear to help with caring for a baby. Now researchers have identified changes in new fathers’ brains, too. — By Darby Saxbe, Associate Professor of Psychology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences & Magdalena Martínez García, Doctoral Student of Neuroimaging, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (IiSGM)

“Whatever you do,” cried Brer Rabbit, “Don’t throw me into the briar patch”. “Skin me, Brer Fox, snatch out my eyeballs, tear out my ears by the roots, and cut off my legs,” said Brer Rabbit. “Only please, Brer Fox, please don’t throw me into the briar patch.” “It’s not…

“Taking it in its most profound sense, the shadow is the invisible saurian tail that man still drags behind him. Carefully amputated, it becomes the healing serpent of the mysteries. Only monkeys parade with it.” Dr. Carl Jung. The Integration of Personality. (1939). As a young man, I went through…

Friedrich Hayek, renowned as an economist and social theorist, is primarily known for his contributions to the field of economics and political philosophy. However, it is worth noting that he also delved into the realms of consciousness and neuroscience, exploring the intricate relationship between the brain and human experience. …

An AI researcher and neuroscientist takes stock — It was all over Twitter for a while, as you may remember. A low-ranking engineer at Google, Blake Lemoine, had released a statement expressing his view that Google’s latest chatbot, a system called LaMDA, was “sentient.” I found myself tracking the ensuing social-media gossip for a couple of days. But…

When my academic paper (on long-covid) is being misused to support that mRNA vaccines cause multiple sclerosis. — The claim that a new paper from the World Health Organization (WHO) showing that mRNA vaccines caused multiple sclerosis is going viral on Twitter, garnering millions of views in less than a week (Figure 1). Multiple sclerosis is the most common disabling neurological disorder in young individuals. It happens when…

Gravity modes on rapidly rotating accreting white dwarfs and their variation after dwarf novae(arXiv) Author : Praphull Kumar, Dean M. Townsley Abstract : Accreting white dwarfs in Cataclysmic variables (CVs) show short-period (tens of minutes) brightness variations that are consistent with non-radial oscillations similar to gravity (g) modes observed in…

How many impossible things did you experience today? “During his hospital stay, he endorsed witnessing people morph into other people; he also perceived one physician’s right shoulder and right-handed fingers growing bigger and his left hand shrinking in size.” (4) This quote may sound like a line from a science…

There’s a fascinating new frontier in neuroscience that is changing how we understand the workings of the human brain: Connectomics. This exciting discipline is unlocking the labyrinth of neural connections within our brain and, in doing so, reshaping our comprehension of cognition, behavior, and mental health. Connectomics: A Whole New Level of Understanding Imagine the brain as…