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We Have More than Five Senses. A Neuroscientist Explains the Hidden Abilities We Often Overlook

By Lisa Feldman-Barrett — 2021

Neuroscientist Dr Lisa Feldman Barrett delves into the different ways we’re able to perceive the world that go beyond sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.

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Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over

When a team of scientists in Finland asked people to map out where they felt different emotions on their bodies, they found that the results were surprisingly consistent, even across cultures.

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Michaleen Doucleff
2013
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Yoga May Be Good for the Brain

A weekly routine of yoga and meditation may strengthen thinking skills and help to stave off aging-related mental decline, according to a new study of older adults with early signs of memory problems.

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Gretchen Reynolds
2016
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Cultivating Empathy in My Children, from a Neuroscience Perspective

Empathy is divided into cognitive, emotional and applied empathy, all of which are valuable. For empathy to truly be useful to the human condition, our kids must have applied empathy, or compassion.

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Erin Clabough
2019
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Can Ketamine Treat Depression? the Answer May Lie in a Mysterious Brain Cell

To treat depression, the neurons which control the hormones serotonin and dopamine in our brains seem to get all the attention.

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Sophie Putka
2021
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Mind Molding Psychedelic Drugs Could Treat Depression, and Other Mental Illnesses

It seems that psychedelics do more than simply alter perception. According to the latest research from my colleagues and me, they change the structures of neurons themselves.

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David E. Olson
2018
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Buried by Bad Decisions

Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.

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Daniel Gilbert
2011
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Why Your Brain Loves Kindness

If you’re familiar to meditation, then you’ve probably tried a basic loving-kindness practice. It involves bringing to mind someone you love, and wishing that they are safe, well, and happy—either out loud or to yourself.

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Stephany Tlalka
2019
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Stroke of Genius: An Interview with Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor

It’s an understatement to say that for nearly all stroke survivors, a stroke is a negative experience. So what kind of person could survive a massive stroke in her left hemisphere, struggle through eight years of rehabilitation, and end up being glad it happened?

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Andy Hunter
2020
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Balancing the Brain Toward Joy

In her best-selling book, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey, Taylor details the process for recovery and the insight she’s gained about the different functions of the left and right halves of her brain.

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David Kupfer, Jill Bolte Taylor
2012
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A Superhighway to Bliss

Jill Bolte Taylor was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana.

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Leslie Kaufman
2008
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