While women are well skilled at juggling many plates simultaneously, there is also a debilitating cost. We end up craving opportunities to rest our brains and souls. Neuroscience tells us shifting our brain activity strengthens our long-term health. Periods of rest, right-brain activity and lack ...
The identification of those mutations and exploration of causes is a major scientific achievement. We have not yet translated that work into beneficial therapies but I see the promise it holds. I certainly believe research like that should be continued though I also believe our priorities must shif...
as well as those of others, suggest that a major factor in how we experience fear has to do with thecontext. When our “thinking” brain gives feedback to our “emotional” brain and we perceive ourselves as being in a safe space, we can then quickly shift the way we ...
Psychology’s influence on society is not static; it is a continual journey that evolves with the changing needs and aspirations of humanity. Through its contributions to mental health, criminal justice, social dynamics, neuroscience, and interdisciplinary collaborations, psychology forges a path toward...
Intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) is a prevalent but misunderstood form of gender-based violence with significant impacts women’s health and well-being. Research suggests that IPSV has a specific context and unique impacts, but little is known abo
It has transpired that the major mode of action of all currently licensed antipsychotic drugs is to block D2 receptors.9,102 However, our meta-analysis indicates that, by blocking D2 receptors, current drugs are acting downstream of the locus of the largest dopaminergic abnormality in the ...
In neuroscience, consciousness is studied through brain imaging and monitoring brain activity to understand how different brain areas contribute to various aspects of consciousness. 4 What is an example of being conscious? An example of being conscious is when someone quickly pulls their hand away aft...
reason that it opens up the prospect of constructing different realizations of properties the axioms represent. Rather than simply being a neutral assumption—or worse, an entrenched dogma—philosophy’s axiomatization of the possibility of thought is the first major step toward programming thinking as...
computational neuroscience, human-computer interaction, and health and the life sciences. His research contributions have impacted a wide range of Microsoft products. Desney was previously Vice President and Managing Director of Microsoft Health Futures and is now Managing Director of Microsoft Research ...
Social science as an academic field of study developed out of the aforementioned Age of Enlightenment (or Age of Reason). Smith, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and David Hume were among the major intellectuals at the time who laid the foundation for the study ...