Vitamins play a crucial role in building axon fiber and facilitating synaptic transmission but have to be ingested to become available to the brain. Surprisingly,…
Vitamins for the Brain
Lab Talk
Many Ways to Measure Attention
Attention is a multifaceted, multisensory cognitive phenomenon that can be studied in many ways. Here we describe a few methods used in the lab to…
The Illusion of Reality
Optical illusions demonstrate how our brains filter sensory stimulii and fit it into a construct that ‘makes sense’ to us. Can we measure our…
What’s in a Good Night’s Sleep?
What constitutes a good night sleep may not be so clear when it comes to what the brain is doing. Simple interpretations of function based…
Searching for Memory in the EEG
The search for correlates of memory in the EEG has been a confounding area of study. The answer may lie in clever approaches to temporal…
Cognitive Health: Defining and Measuring it
The brain’s primary function is cognition. Why don’t we have measures of cognitive health as a fundamental metric of a healthy brain? Like the heart’s…
The Brain’s Inner Sweet Tooth
Sugars such as glucose are an essential source of energy for the brain’s metabolic process but there is a flip side. The term “sugars”, is…
Einstein, Astrocytes and EEG
Astrocytes shape key features of the EEG signal and may be crucial for effective cognitive processes. In 1955, Dr. Thomas Harvey acquired a brain. Whether…
Your Brain from Noodles to Nuts
Every molecule or nutrient we ingest has potential impact on our brain health and cognitive function yet we know surprisingly little about these relationships. Each…
Getting at Consciousness
The nature of consciousness is difficult to understand but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn to manipulate it. Consciousness is the most elusive aspect of…
