Sometimes, a conversation takes you to places you never would’ve expected. Matt Wall and I struck up a chat about brain-scanning technology early this year, and he mentioned that he’d like to do an interview for The Connectome. Since he’s got 5+ years of published brain research under his belt, I jumped at the chance. [...]
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Brain Scans and Bold Plans: Our Interview with Matt Wall
October 28th, 2012 
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Tags: drugs, emotions, fMRI, imaging, neuroanatomy, technology, therapy 
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Brains and Brilliance
August 1st, 2012 The Connectome Where in the brain, exactly, is intelligence? Is a high I.Q. just a result of a flawed test – or do high-I.Q. brains have specific, measurable differences from others? Answers await, Intrepid Reader – but first we have to make sure we’re asking the right questions. Let’s start with the big news: a study just published [...]
Posted in Brain News, Featured Tags: anxiety, connectomics, depression, drugs, functional networks, intelligence, learning, neurophysiology 4 Comments »
Reward Lasers
March 21st, 2012 The Connectome Our ability to feel pleasure in rewarding situations depends on a delicate balance of two specific types of brain circuits, a new study reports. By using targeted lasers to activate specific cells in a mouse brain, researchers can disrupt and reactivate small sections of that brain’s reward pathway, causing mice to drastically change their behavior. [...]
Posted in Brain News, Featured Tags: biochemistry, biology, depression, drugs, learning, memory, neurochemistry, neurophysiology, technology 4 Comments »
Podcast 2 – Consciousness, Dreams & Drugs
March 6th, 2012 The Connectome On the second Connectome podcast, Ben muses about three of the hottest topics in neuroscience today: what “consciousness” might be, how it relates to dreams, and how drugs can play some strange tricks on that relationship. Click here to subscribe in iTunes. Here’s a direct link to download the mp3. Enjoy, and feel free [...]
Posted in Featured, Podcasts Tags: consciousness, dreams, drugs, neurochemistry, psychology, senses, sleep 1 Comment »Drugs, Neuroscience, and You
September 22nd, 2011 The Connectome Let’s be honest here: if a person really wants to try an illegal drug, he or she is going to find a way to try it. To me, the most reasonable response to this fact seems to be to share clear, science-backed explanations of the effects and risks involved with each drug. So today, I’m [...]
Perfect Memory and the Ten Percent Myth
March 21st, 2011 The Connectome This story begins in a bar. On the wall-mounted TV, the popular channel Sports Channel was taking a break from the popular show Men in Suits Awkwardly Attempting Rapport to show a trailer for the movie Limitless. I’m not gonna lie – I was intrigued by the plot at first; and not only because literally anything on [...]
Posted in Feature Stories Tags: drugs, memory, neurophysiology, science to the rescue! No Comments »
