Hallucinogens
What LSD Can Teach Us About Perception LSD and other hallucinogens are typically associated with the 1960s, flower children and the Summer of Love in San Francisco, but the psychopharmacological effects of...
Keep Telling Yourself: Turning Pegs Is… Fun?
As humans, we like to believe that the choices we make are rational and well founded, but by using psychology to look into the subconscious we can see that not all our decisions are totally logical. How do...
Mapping the Mind
Federal BRAIN Initiative Funds Two Princeton Neuroscience Studies The 21st century has brought with it some amazing scientific advances: the first draft of the complete human genome, the successful induction...
Feeling SAD? Blame Winter
Winter blues got you down? Research suggests that the holiday season is not associated with higher rates of depression, but you’re not alone if you feel unusually down during the winter season. The cause?...
Internet Addiction
The irony of writing an article about the neuroscience of Internet addiction, while being a card-carrying member of the Millennial Generation, is not lost on me. Nevertheless, it is important that we examine...
Zimbardo Revisited: Rotten Apples? Or Rotten Barrel?
In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, a boy named Jack seizes control over fellow classmates stranded on an island, transforming them into a tribe of hunters and killers. How could Jack and his followers...
Sociopathy 101: Going Beyond the Stereotypes
Who comes to mind when you imagine a sociopath? Famous fictional characters like Sherlock, maybe, or Dexter. Alex DeLarge, Patrick Bateman and Dr. Hannibal Lecter have all graced the screen with charm and...
Tilt That Head, Flaunt That Neck and Bam
In Comes the Kiss (The Neuroscience of a DFMO) Of the many surprising novelties that freshmen face as they embark on their four years of college, the dance floor make-out (DFMO), may come as a particularly...
Meditation and Mindfulness
Fred Shaykis “Mindfulness” is a craze that is sweeping the world right now, and nowhere is it spreading faster than in Copenhagen, Denmark. There, counseling psychologist Dr. Line Frederiksen is doing...
Coffee Improves Brain Health?
Jenny Wu Coffee drinkers live longer and have a reduced risk of diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. So, caffeine is good for you, right? Maybe not. Evidence shows that caffeine actually...
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