I think it was Andrea Kuszewski who alerted me to this paper. And it definitely pricked up my ears. Is sleepin’ around good for big brains? Does promiscuity make for additional smarts? Does getting more tail make your brain extra hale? Well…sort of. But “promiscuity” is probably the wrong word. Take out promiscuity…and put in […]
Well, not FASTER, per se, but your gamma oscillations in the hippocampus appear to become more powerful! Want to know what that means? And what it might have to do with moving quickly? Sci is at SciAm Blogs today talking about a paper showing increase power of gamma oscillations in the hippocampus which go along […]
I think we’ve all had that kind of pain. A headache, maybe, or an injury. The kind of pain…that THROBS. You know what I mean. When I get one of those throbbing headaches, it’s like every beat of my heart is pushing the blood up through my brain, and with the blood comes another throb […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about a paper that covers a topic that I hadn’t really given much thought to before: how can your brain tell how far away a sound it when you hear it? Head over and check it out.
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about a cool new study which might bring a new player to the antidepressant game: neuritin. While the stress and depression link is pretty well known by now, neuritin is new, and might end up being something cool! Head over and check it out!
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, talking about a study showing that Parkinson’s is more than dopamine, and that serotonin may have something to do with it. It’s an interesting study with some widespread implications that cover more than Parkinson’s. Head over and check it out.
We all know what blogging started off as. Livejournals, devoted to people talking, with a certain amount of self-satisfaction, about themselves, what they had for breakfast, and how not getting a pony when they were 8 caused them to become a vegan. Self-blogging continues, and now there’s also Facebook, where you can take lots of […]
Sci is at SciAm blogs today, looking at a study which examined the preference for musical complexity in women across the menstrual cycle. Do you prefer more complex melodies at that time of the month? Are you looking to be impressed by prospective males? Head over and find out!
Yesterday Hilda Baston (of the Statistically funny blog which I only just discovered!) posted to the SciAm Guest Blog, with a thoughtful and useful critique of my critique (I know, so meta!) of the recent exercise and depression study. And she’s got some great points. But you know what? I’ve got great points, too. 🙂 […]
That’s a quote from one of the tweets about this study this morning, and seems to sum it up pretty well. That latest study which blasted through the media, saying that exercise doesn’t help depression? I don’t buy it, and I’ll tell you why. Head over to The Scicurious Brain to find out.