Archive for the 'Neuroscience' Category
Stephen Pinker has an essay in The New Republic called simply What The Fuck? (no, I will not censor the word). It’s a brilliant deconstruction of cursing and profanity throughout history, a primer on the neuroscience of swearing, and explains why we have such a visceral reaction to some words. It even clarified why the [...]
According to this study, high-altitude climbing can cause brain damage. This is not good news for those who wish to climb Everest naked.
Though the expedition suffered no major mishaps and none of the 12 professional climbers suffered any obvious signs of high-altitude illness, only one of the 13 climbers returned with a normal brain scan. [...]
So, if exercise increases neurogenesis, how do you explain the social stereotype of the nerd?
The New York Times has an excellent article by Sandra Blakeslee about the insular cortex, commonly referred to as the insula. The insula recently received a lot of media attention after it was implicated in smoking cessation.
The frontal insula is where people sense love and hate, gratitude and resentment, self-confidence and embarrassment, trust and distrust, [...]
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