Neuroscience Archives

(Trevor Cole)

Global WEIRDing Threatens Cognitive Diversity

January 31, 2019June 1, 2020 8 min read Kensy Cooperrider Globalization, Language, Multiculturalism, Neuroscience

Human cognitive diversity joins a number of other forms of diversity that are disappearing. Diversity of mammals and plants, of languages and cuisines. But the loss of cognitive diversity raises issues all its own.

(Nathan Dias)

Depression Isn’t Caused by a Chemical Imbalance

September 13, 2018March 27, 2021 14 min read Jeffrey Howard Emotional Well-being, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Science

The prevailing theory for depression focuses on an alleged chemical imbalance in the brain—meta-researchers are now dispelling this narrative.

(Jared Rice)

The Brain Can Be Rewired Through Meditation and Mindfulness

September 3, 2018April 30, 2021 25 min read Rick Hanson Ancient Wisdom, Buddhism, Essential Reading, Mindfulness, Neuroscience

Neuroscience increasingly validates Buddhist practices, like meditation, which unlock the ability of the mind to change the brain.

A New Romanticism Erraticus Albert Bierstadt Storm Rocky Mountains

("Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" by Albert Bierstadt, 1866)

‘Enlightenment Now’ Demands a New Romanticism

July 31, 2018June 3, 2020 5 min read Jim Kozubek Environmentalism, Nature, Neuroscience, Romanticism, William James

There are many who say that Romanticism is dead. But the tensions between Romanticism and the soldiers of the original Enlightenment are rising up again.

(Warner Brothers/DC)

Overcoming Childhood Trauma and Other Heroic Lessons from ‘The Dark Knight’

May 1, 2017May 9, 2020 15 min read Joshua R. H. Parsons Empathy, Family, Film, Neuroscience, Relationships

A cinematic masterpiece, ‘The Dark Knight’ is filled with insights into empathy and building emotional resiliency after childhood trauma.