To Understand the Human Brain, Give an Octopus MDMA
Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins, talks about how psychedelics affect the brain and how they can help people heal from traumatic experiences. ..
Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins, talks about how psychedelics affect the brain and how they can help people heal from traumatic experiences. ..
Creating a memory takes energy, and brains only have so much. A study using snails shows how they can be primed for future learning. ..
An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people? ..
With more tripping will come more psychic terror. A new movement of volunteers will guide you through your brain melt. ..
After decades of frustration, researchers have determined how an airborne scent molecule links to shapeshifting olfactory receptors in the nose. ..
Kids soak up new skills, adults not so much. But neuroscientist Gül Dölen might have found a way—with drugs—to help grownups learn like littles. ..
Stimulating the frontal lobes of sleeping epilepsy patients improved their recall of information—and may one day help treat Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. ..
Precision Neuroscience’s brain-computer interface sits on top of the brain, not in it. That could make it easier to implant, and less likely to damage ..
Prolonged exposure to strobe lights has a psychedelic effect, which researchers are investigating as a way to heal the brain. ..
In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.” ..