Tag: neuroscience
The Neuroscience behind the ‘Parenting Paradox’ of Happiness
The Neuroscience behind the ‘Parenting Paradox’ of Happiness Separate brain processes cope with moment-to-moment versus big-picture experiences, which helps explain how parenting both increases and decreases aspects of well-being By Anthony Vaccaro edited by Daisy Yuhas Deciding whether to have kids can be one of the most momentous decisions a person makes. Countless factors can…
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows
Good Conversations Don’t Require Everybody to Agree, Neuroscience Shows By Emily Falk edited by Daisy Yuhas With each turn of the news cycle, you may wonder how anyone in their right mind, seeing what they’re seeing, could still hold differing political views from your own. I wrestle with some of these feelings myself. When I…
Neuroscience and Art Collide in a Posthumous ‘Composition’ by Alvin Lucier in Revivification
A Composer’s ‘Brain’ Makes Music Years after His Death A museum exhibit in Australia lets visitors hear music generated by brain cells derived from the blood of a dead composer. By Allison Parshall, Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi & Alex Sugiura Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Plenty of us would find…
How and Why Humans Began to Sing, a Musicology and Neuroscience Perspective
Brains Process Speech and Singing Differently By Rachel Feltman, Allison Parshall, Fonda Mwangi & Madison Goldberg Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. We’re wrapping up our week of summer reruns with one of my absolute favorite Science Quickly episodes. Back in October, SciAm associate news editor Allison Parshall took us on…
Engineered Viruses Are Transforming Neuroscience and Treating Brain Disease
Engineered Viruses Make Neurons Glow and Treat Brain Disease Neuroscientists can now make precise genetic tweaks to the neurons that are most affected by brain diseases such as Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and ALS By Allison Parshall edited by Jeanna Bryner Different populations of cells in the mouse brain, each one targeted with high specificity by one…
Where Does Consciousness Come from? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head
Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head Two leading theories of consciousness went head-to-head—and the results may change how neuroscientists study one of the oldest questions about existence By Allison Parshall edited by Jeanna Bryner Where in the brain does consciousness originate? Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation,…
The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake?
The Neuroscience of Severance: What’s Real? What’s Fake? The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus. By Rachael Elward, Lauren Ford & The Conversation US Adam Scott in season two of Severance. The following essay is reprinted with…