I am the product of a mixed marriage. On my English side, I know much about my family antecedents; on the Zoroastrian side, very little. Only now, through taking a course on... Read more »
For years, you may have felt like you were drowning in a sea of “good intentions” that never quite reached the shore of “finished tasks.” You know what you need to do,... Read more »
How does meaning arise from matter? This is Part 2 of a four-part series exploring how the brain generates meaning. In Part 1, I argued that meaning emerges from relations among neural... Read more »
PTSD and other stress-related conditions are of significant importance to large segments of the population, including and perhaps especially law enforcement officers, other professionals in the emergency first response services, and military... Read more »
When most people think about aging, they imagine a linear progression towards an inevitable end. They think in terms of birthdays, knowing that the more candles on the cake, the more we... Read more »
While we treat professional life like a series of closed chapters, modern acceleration has turned careers into “perpetual beta”—where nothing truly finishes, and the psychological cost accumulates silently. Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (1822).... Read more »
Living a longer, healthier life is a top priority for so many. People look to exercise, follow a nutritious diet, and even focus on cognitive training activities like puzzles, but these don’t... Read more »
Doidge (2010), referring to a study undertaken by Michael Merzenich et al. (1983), found that “[w]hen it came to allocating brain‑processing power,” the brain allocated “[its] neurological resources” to those parts of... Read more »
In the year 2010, neuroscientists used advanced brain imaging to confirm what the Stoics had intuited 2,300 years ago: Our emotions move faster than our reason. Within just 40 milliseconds of seeing... Read more »
In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and what was... Read more »