By Michael Graziano — 2019
It may be some way off, but mind uploading, the digital duplication of your mental essence, could expand human experience into a virtual afterlife.
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CLEAR ALL
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
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A new understanding of long-overlooked cells called microglia is challenging the assumption that body and brain function are completely independent.
When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.
The strange, startling, and competing explanations for human—and possibly nonhuman—consciousness.
Science has not yet reached a consensus on the nature of consciousness–which has important implications for our belief in free will and our approach to the study of the human mind.
Dutch adventurer Wim Hof is known as ‘The Iceman’ for good reason. Hof established several world records for prolonged resistance to cold exposure, an ability he attributes to a self-developed set of techniques of breathing and meditation—known as the Wim Hof Method.
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.
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.
A growing body of scientific research suggests that our mind can play an important role in healing our body — or in staying healthy in the first place.
Adversity in childhood can create long-lasting scars, damaging our cells and our DNA, and making us sick as adults