“I always say we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about what’s really going on in women’s bodies [or that of anyone with a vulva],” Nan Wise, PhD, cognitive neuroscientist, AASECT-certified sex therapist, and author of Why Good Sex Matters, tells SELF. As a ...
families, schools, and society. According to Ron Dahl, a University of California, Berkeleyneuroscientistand a CDA cofounder, we shouldn’tfearthis adolescent
Michael Shadlen is aneuroscientistand neurologist who is an expert on the neural mechanisms of decision-making.8His lab has studied the specific role of neural noise in decision-making, as well as a key neural mechanism in decision-making that Shadlen refers to as “policy”: a higher...
Uh-oh! Unless you’re a neuroscientist or an engineer, I’m guessing you weren’t able to make head or tail of this scenario. It turns out that all the critical-thinking skills in the world become obsolete when you try to apply them to information you don’t understand. Unfortunately, ...
“If we understand what’s normative, that can go a long way into alleviating concerns,” Jacobs says. “I can’t tell you how many times women become concerned because of the cognitive changes they’re observing. Often, these are transient changes, but that doesn’t take away from the ...
To better understand how network structure shapes intelligent behavior, we developed a learning algorithm that we used to build personalized brain network models for 650 Human Connectome Project participants. We found that participants with higher intell
According to Dr. Sahar Yousef, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, time off is the only cure for burnout. “Burnout is a long-term phenomenon … that can eventually debilitate us, making dedicated time off the only cure,” she says. If you’re worried about...
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Lucy Brown, a neuroscientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York,told Live Science in 2011that the drive to be with another person is sort of like our drive toward water and other things we need to survive. "Functional MRI studies show that primitive neural systems underlyi...
The Rhythms Of Life: The Biological Clocks That Control the Daily Lives of Every Living Thing, by circadian neuroscientist Russell G. Foster. Rhythms of Life is a wonderful and accessible introduction to the world of daily and seasonal biological rhythms. ...