Language in Our Finned Frenemies
Orcas have gone viral recently after numerous reports of them sinking boats off the coast of Europe. Some speculate these attacks are the revenge plot… Read More »Language in Our Finned Frenemies
Neuroscience
Hiding in Plain Sight: The Fatigue Mystery
What is the most tired you have ever been? So tired that all you wanted to do was crawl up into a little ball, take… Read More »Hiding in Plain Sight: The Fatigue Mystery
This is your brain… This is your brain on NIBS
I was surfing Amazon the other day when I came across the most peculiar thing. It was a brain stimulator, a research tool like the… Read More »This is your brain… This is your brain on NIBS
What Birds in Love Teach Us About How the Brain Processes Competing Motivations
Guest blogger Katie Pham is a neuroscience Ph.D. student interested in visual processing and memory research. She was born in Hanoi and raised in Northern… Read More »What Birds in Love Teach Us About How the Brain Processes Competing Motivations
‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ — Well, on Marijuana at Least
The history of cannabis use likely traces back to Asia as early as 500 BC. The plant’s purpose then was medicinal, but there are reports… Read More »‘This Is Your Brain on Drugs’ — Well, on Marijuana at Least
Habsburgs: All in the Family
This post originally appeared on Riley’s blog, uneasy-lies-the-crown.com, which features her writing and podcasts about the intersection of neuroscience and royalty. Our tale begins in… Read More »Habsburgs: All in the Family
Phineas Gage’s Dating Apps
The history of neuroscience is paved with neurological deficits, specifically of individuals who underwent damage to brain structures through accidents and survived to tell the… Read More »Phineas Gage’s Dating Apps
Skating on Thick Ice — how do we learn new motor skills?
Skating is something I learned to do by falling on the ice — a lot. When I was a junior in high school, I joined… Read More »Skating on Thick Ice — how do we learn new motor skills?
Podcasting Through the Pandemic
Curious about how your brain is processing the experience of the pandemic? Johns Hopkins graduate student Emily Han launched a podcast to explore the neuroscience behind pandemic emotions.
The P-value of People
The prospect of helping patients is what attracted neuroscience graduate student Riley Bannon to the field of research, but this semester brought many humbling reminders that it is all too easy to lose sight of the bigger, human picture in translational research.