neuroscience

One MIT-trained poet spent nine months trying to find out.

The sober reality behind the effectiveness of two new drugs touted as Alzheimer’s breakthroughs: lecanemab and donanemab.

Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.

When we view hard work as a sign of low aptitude, it harms our ability to learn and grow.

Being bilingual benefits children as they learn to speak — and adults as they age.

Police forces are choosing humans over algorithms to make some identifications.

Here’s the thorny reality behind psychedelics’ ability to unearth buried memories.

To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.

Research suggests you can influence your sense of time by changing the “embodiedness” of your daily habits.

Scientists are probing the head games that influence athletic performance, from coaching to coping with pressure.

It may seem as though top performers are always on, but the secret to their success is taking the time to recharge.

In “Dear Oliver,” neuroscientist Susan Barry describes how her 10-year correspondence with Oliver Sacks unleashed her inner author.

What is perception, really? Philosopher Alva Noë on why perception is a puzzling phenomenon:

The brain-computer interface will be tested in a six-year trial in patients with quadriplegia.

Big Think recently spoke with sleep psychologist Dr. Jade Wu about the surprising consequences of forgoing sleep.

Many still consider hypnosis more of a cheap magician’s trick than legitimate clinical medicine.

Research suggests that to maintain a healthy brain, we should tend our gut microbiome.

People who die by suicide are more likely to have reduced levels of the NPAS4 gene, which helps regulate inflammation in the brain.

Neuroscience supports the notion that an escape from conventional perspectives can be a gateway to spectacular insights.

One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.

Prolonged and repetitive tasks rewire us in profound ways – which can be a force for good at work.

Studies claiming to reveal strategies for feeling happy get a second look.

Growing evidence suggests a link between the debilitating neurological illness and the microbes that live in our intestines. The vagus nerve may be a pathway.

High-frequency oscillations that ripple through our brains may generate memory and conscious experience.

I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”

Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.

Ketamine’s remarkable effect bolsters a new theory of mental illness.

It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.

The heart’s rhythms may play a larger role in shaping psychedelic experiences than previously thought.

Millions of people have had a near-death experience, and it often leads them to believe in an afterlife. Does this count as good proof?