Sleep, brain maintenance, and Alzheimer’s disease
In Rest, I talk about how sleep turns out to be a form of what I call "active rest:" rest in which the body is actually doing things
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Skip to contentIn Rest, I talk about how sleep turns out to be a form of what I call "active rest:" rest in which the body is actually doing things
Within the discipline of history, the effort to use theories from the human and natural sciences-- e.g., psychology, psychoanalysis, biology, and other fields-- to explain historical change is
Psychiatrist and Neuro Business Group founder Srini Pillay has a short piece on the Harvard Business Review blog arguing that "Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus," but
Well, this announcement is interesting: A giant neuron found wrapped around entire mouse brain: A new digital reconstruction method shows three neurons that branch extensively throughout the brain,
Last week I went up to San Francisco to record an interview with Moira Gunn and Tech Nation. The interview is now available online, on their episode "The
The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of "likes" on their own photos or the
Eric Jonas and Konrad Kording wondered, what would happen if they studied the chip in the style of neuroscientists? How would the approaches that are being used to
Via Duke professor Cathy Davidson, I just came across this L. A. Times piece by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. (They're authors of The Invisible Gorilla. The essay