I happened across this video of Stephen Wiltshire, an autistic man whose ability to remember incredible detail and draw it with near perfection is extraordinary. If he flies in a helicopter over a city just once, he can recreate the city perfectly in a drawing. The buildings have the right number of columns and windows. [...]

Back in June, we launched our Thinkfood Recipe of the Week program, to bring a brain healthy recipe to your inbox each week. Today we are pleased to announce that the physical cookbook is here and available for purchase on our website and on Amazon.com! ThinkFood is a cookbook  that features brain-healthy recipes. We know [...]

Our eyes take in a lot of information from the world, but limitations in brain processing means that we can only pay attention to a small portion of it. As a consequence we often fail to notice important information that is clearly in our field of view because our attention is focused elsewhere. One compelling [...]

Many people think that eating nuts is good for your brain. This is true, but not all nuts are created equally. There is great variation in the health benefits to be found in different types of nuts, especially from a brain health perspective. Walnuts are the top nut for brain health. They have a significantly [...]

Gregory Berns’ book Iconoclast highlight’s the brain’s role in invention and innovation … altering perception can lead to breakthroughs.

Five neuroscientists are on a rafting trip in Utah… does this sound the beginning of a joke?  It’s not.  The New York Times published an interesting article on a group of neuroscientists who want to understand how our use of digital devices affects how we think and behave.  The neuroscientists were also trying to understand [...]

The New York Times published a very interesting article describing a new study that suggests that brain trauma–like concussions and other head injuries–can over time cause damage that looks like Lou Gehrig’s disease (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS). This might mean that some people diagnosed with ALS actually are suffering from the long-term effects of [...]

This week, we learned that Brain Plasticity Inc. (BPI), a new “technology incubator”, has received $3.65 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to conduct research on software-based programs. They have been awarded $3 million to work on creating and testing a cognitive program for people with schizophrenia, as well as $650,000 for people [...]

Studying and actively listening to music develops the brain in ways that help beyond just enjoying music.

Do you ever read about a study that’s received a million dollar grant and think, “Who would spend a million dollars to study THAT? And what kind of scientists would want to spend their time on it?” That’s what I first thought when I heard about research on sea slug brains. I couldn’t figure out [...]