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 [...]

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 [...]

It may sound like science fiction, but researchers at Northwestern say they can use EEG (a type of brain wave imaging) to “read” a potential terrorist’s mind and uncover details of a terrorist plot. I’m having trouble deciding if this is a promising step forward in the fight against terrorism, or an invasion of the one of [...]

I saw this optical illusion today and was absolutely amazed at my brain’s reaction. Look at the drawing below. Which square is darker, square A or square B? Incredibly, the answer is that squares A and B are the same color, but your brain perceives them to be different based on surrounding color and shadow [...]

Steven Aldrich is traveling to Toronto to spread the word about the power of neuroplasticity.

Perhaps you’ve heard that we humans are special in the animal world because our brains are so very, very big for our size. Not true, as it turns out. Sure, they’re big compared to a bird brain or a dog brain, but in the primate world our brain size is pretty unremarkable–at least according to this [...]

Ed. note: Today we are pleased to present a guest post from Chelsea Travers, a communications representative from CareMeridian who is educating the public about traumatic brain injury.Click on her name above for a full biography. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is all too commonly associated with modern warfare, particularly the War on Terror. Many veterans [...]

Smell is a nuanced sense that does not get enough credit

A recent article by Fran Johns, a great True/Slant contributor who has written about Posit Science, talks all about telomeres. If you don’t know what telomeres are (I didn’t), they are protective caps on our chromosomes that help to regulate cell aging. Long telomeres = “younger” cellular age and better cell health. Short telomeres = “older” [...]