If you’re like me, you have a neuroscientist in your family who’s hard to shop for. So perhaps, when you get desperate, you find yourself wondering (as I did this morning) if there are any brain-themed holiday gifts out there. It turns out there are. A lot. Zazzle.com has over 800 (!) neuron/brain/neurotransmitter-themed items, including [...]

I usually think of of physical pain and emotional pain as fairly separate phenomena. Physical pain is caused by certain things (like a wound), and cured by certain things (like a pain medication). Emotional pain is usually caused by a totally different set of things (like a bad breakup) and cured by different things (like [...]

The American Museum of Natural History opens a show on our favorite subject – the brain.

This holiday season, Posit Science is partnering with OneSight for the second year in a row, to help people get the vision care and eyeglasses they need! A percent of all purchases will be donated to OneSight.

About 9 months ago, we wrote about the “second brain” in your gut–the mass of neurons found in your intestine that you may not have even known about. In this talk, from food scientist Heribert Watzke, explains why evolutionarily we have this second brain in our gut, what it means, and what it does. It [...]

There’s a lot of debate around the similarities and differences between humans and Neanderthals. Were Neanderthals truly a different species from humans, or a different type of the same species? Were they adaptive, cultural innovators like humans, or were they just the dumb cavemen often depicted? Their brains were big like ours… but did they [...]

A long-term research study followed over 900 older adults for five years and saw those who trained with Posit Science’s speed-of-processing technology reduced at-fault crash by 50%.

Today a recipe for Strawberry Pomegranate Pie is featured as the Thinkfood Recipe of the Week. As you probably know by now, Thinkfood is a cookbook and online recipe program that features brain healthy recipes from 50 food bloggers. You might be surprised to learn that this week’s recipe was contributed by yours truly. As [...]

We’re learning more about the long-term impact of brain injury and the importance of reducing the potential for repeated head injuries within a short time frame. Here are some concrete steps to take.

Tomorrow many of us will head out and hit the polls, if we haven’t already mailed in our absentee ballots. But what drives those of us who vote to do so, when we know our single vote is unlikely to make a difference and it takes time and effort on our part? This New York [...]