Mind & Brain

A video explainer about what opioids do to the brain that makes the drugs so hard to quit.

What method helps you retain more information — reading, highlighting, or even interrogation? 

Researchers find that different types of meditation alter the brain differently.

New research at USC shows universal brain activity in the comprehension of stories for the first time. 

A new study shows how feelings of empathy can be potentially harmful to your health. 

About 51 million people around the world suffer from schizophrenia, yet half of the general public doesn’t understand what schizophrenia really is

The psychedelic drug LSD is still popular. But how dangerous is it?

Are noble 18th-century norms fit for 21st-century life? Especially when, as Yuval Harari says, liberalism’s “factual statements just don’t stand up to rigorous scientific scrutiny.” 

A new study examines reasons behind the persistence of neuromyths.

Neurons in the human brain produce photons, and are apparently capable of being the infrastructure for light-based communication and activity.

A story can literally transport you into a character’s body. But how long does it last?   

You may have heard of a new kind of therapy from your more “new age” friends, “Sensory Deprivation Tanks”. While it sounds like a form of torture that might have […]

Caffeine makes us feel more awake but also decreases our ability to taste sweetness

The only way the furies are stopped is by “giving them a place of honor.”   

It’s always been our brains. 

A Duke University study that found over 40 percent of our actions aren’t actually decisions, but habits. Here’s how to build good ones. 

Our brains can do some pretty weird things to us sometimes. These prove it.   

A new study reveals a worldwide moral prejudice against atheists.

One study supports imposing artificial restrictions in order to goose creativity.   

One philosopher believes psychedelic drugs are a gateway to truth and knowledge.

A number of studies presented at the 125th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association verify yoga’s role in curbing depression.

Dementia is a broad term that covers several types of neurodegenerative disorders which affect a person’s ability to think, learn, recall memories, and perform everyday activities. This deterioration of the […]

Will primetime philosophy work on German TV? 

There are four main traits of temperament and two subsets of each. Which are you?   

Should Jon Snow go to Dragonstone? Should Samwell “operate” on Ser Jorah? The line between intuition and foolishness can only be drawn in hindsight.

Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Actor and author Alan Alda on the art of communication (for good and evil), social anxiety, the mind of a billionaire, and more. 

With the American prison system coming under fire for being inhumane, could philosophy provide some much needed compassion to its prisoners?

Research shows that people with heart problems and diabetes are being misdiagnosed. Solving that is going to take an overhaul of our medical system.

At some point in life, you’ve probably asked yourself how in-control of your own actions you are. Could you have stopped yourself from eating that extra morsel? In other words, do you have free will?

A new study published in Nature shows just how quick relief is possible with ketamine.