A collection of short academic essays about the weird and wonderful ways our brain works.
- Joy Triggers: How to Find Happiness on Demand
- Neuroenergetics: The Brain’s Energy Budgeting System
- The neurochemicals of productivity and procrastination
- Thinking Beyond the Brain: Why Neuroplasticity is Overhyped
- What is neurodiversity?
- How to become a brain myth buster
- An introduction to applied neuroscience
- The Goldilocks Principle of Stress and Anxiety
- Impossible colors: our vision’s incomplete palette
- Brain-training games are BS
- Beyond human consciousness
- The Evolution of Consciousness: a talk by Dr Derek Tracy
- Somewhere over the brainbow: a beautiful neuroimaging technique
- The genetics of happiness: does happiness really depend upon ourselves?
- Neuroeducation: exploring the potential of brain-based education
- Is there a limit to the human brain’s capacity?
- Science-based methods to improve your memory
- Free will: the mind’s best trick
- The comforting pseudoscience of the MBTI
- IQ and death: why smarter people live longer
- Neuromyths: debunking the misconceptions about our brains
- The Mind, Explained: a Netflix documentary
- The generation effect
- 5 books to understand how your brain works
- Neuralink and the future of knowledge work
- How stress and anxiety impact your ability to focus
- Are emotions good or bad?
- Personalised medicine and mental health
- Mental disorders in high versus low income countries
- Benzodiazepines and anxiety disorders: a risky bet
- Challenges of memory-sparing medication for Alzheimer’s disease
- How effective are early interventions in psychosis services?
- A quick overview of the polymerase chain reaction
- Measuring brain function: how do fMRI scanners work?
- Schizophrenia and dendritic spines
- The role of the frontal association cortex
- Schizophrenia and dopamine
- How drugs impact the neurotransmitter life cycle
- The origins of the monoamine hypothesis of depression
- Your brain on cortisol
- What’s the impact of deinstitutionalisation on patient outcomes?
- Randomised controlled trials in psychotherapy research
- Theory of mind and autism spectrum disorder