Neuroscience Archives - BrainHQ from Posit Science https://www.brainhq.com/blog/category/neuroscience/ Wed, 23 Aug 2023 18:56:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 Another year…another title. https://www.brainhq.com/blog/another-year-another-title/ Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:38:02 +0000 https://dev-bhq.pantheonsite.io/?p=17696 The post Another year…another title. appeared first on BrainHQ from Posit Science.

]]> A Brain that Keeps on Teaching: H.M.’s Story https://www.brainhq.com/blog/a-brain-that-keeps-on-teaching-h-m-s-story/ Sat, 01 Jun 2019 15:35:25 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=52 If you’ve ever dabbled in neuroscience (or work at a neuroscience-based company, like I do) you may have come across the story of “H.M.” H.M. was a man who had brain surgery in the 1950s to stop severe seizures. The surgeon ended up removing large pieces of H.M.’s brain. The result: far fewer seizures, and…

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]]> Your Brain in Love: Part 5 – No Room for Romance? Try Music…not Junk Food https://www.brainhq.com/blog/your-brain-in-love-part-5-no-room-for-romance-try-music-instead-but-not-junk-food/ Mon, 11 Feb 2019 07:01:56 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2762 Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Does all this romantic mumbo-jumbo make you feel a little queasy? I have good news: a recent study showed that listening…

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]]> Your Brain in Love: Part 4 – Oxytocin, the Love/Hate Hormone https://www.brainhq.com/blog/your-brain-in-love-part-4-oxytocin-the-lovehate-hormone/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:01:11 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2757 Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! You may have heard of oxytocin, sometimes called the “love hormone.” Human and animal studies have shown that oxytocin plays a…

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]]> Your Brain in Love: Part 3 – The Neuroscience of Date Night https://www.brainhq.com/blog/your-brain-in-love-part-3-the-neuroscience-of-date-night/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 07:01:12 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2752 Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Lots of relationship experts suggest that couples who have been together through the ages can keep the romance alive with regular…

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]]> Your Brain in Love: Part 2 – Love and Marriage https://www.brainhq.com/blog/your-brain-in-love-part-2-love-and-marriage/ https://www.brainhq.com/blog/your-brain-in-love-part-2-love-and-marriage/#respond Fri, 08 Feb 2019 07:01:35 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=2748 Ed. note: This week, in the run-up to Valentine’s Day, we’re featuring a 5-part series about the neuroscience of love and romance. At the end, we’ll put the full series on our website. Enjoy! Unlike Helen Fisher, Ted Huston is more interested in studying what happens throughout long-term relationships. One interesting finding over a lifetime…

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]]> Distracted Driving and the Brain (Part II of II) https://www.brainhq.com/blog/distracted-driving-and-the-brain-part-ii-of-ii/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:22:15 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=106 Cognitive ability is a critical measure of safe driving ... understanding that point the way toward improving our ability to deal with the many distractions beyond texting that we can't eliminate or legislate.

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]]> Distracted Driving and the Brain (Part I of II) https://www.brainhq.com/blog/distracted-driving-and-the-brain-part-i-of-ii/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:08:07 +0000 http://blog.positscience.com//?p=104 I am disappointed that distracted driving has been myopically defined as “texting while driving” ... we are missing an opportunity to make a dent in the 6 million annual crashes in the US.

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]]> Brain Training and Its Critics https://www.brainhq.com/blog/brain-training-critics/ https://www.brainhq.com/blog/brain-training-critics/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:28:24 +0000 http://dev-brainhq-blog.pantheonsite.io/?p=6903 When I was in college, I took a lot of science courses. Really, a lot — maybe even too many. And mostly what they taught me was how scientists believed the world worked — right then, as of the early 1990’s. Luckily for me, my college roommate took a somewhat broader curriculum, and much to my benefit, we talked…

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