The Guardian
The 100-year life: how to prolong a healthy mind
7 min · · As concerns about dementia grow, more research is investigating how we can keep our brains fit and sharp · Shared by 337, including Ward Plunet, Liv 😷, Tauno, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jonathan Kogan
Literary Hub
How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains
12+ min · · Imagine arriving at the airport just in time to catch a plane. Everything in your behavior betrays the heightened concentration of your attention. Your mind on alert, you look for the departures si… · Shared by 331, including Jansnet, Michael (मुकेश), Katja Evertz, Lee Keyes, Oleg Baskov, John Hagel, Jane, Nir Eyal, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, sircharlsxavier, Mark Channon, Gabriele
The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
9 min · · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake. · Shared by 657, including Daniel Dennett, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, George J Huba PhD, Matthias Lampe, Christopher Allen, Liv 😷, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Moheb Costandi, Vaughan Bell, Brian Ahier, Damian Madray, David Pearce, Jennifer Ouellette, Gabriele, Miguel Angel Escotet, Jane, Ed Yong has left The Atlantic, Gerd Leonhard, Timothy Lomauro, justin caouette
insidemymind.me
Today I Learned That Not Everyone Has An Internal Monologue And It Has Ruined My Day.
3 min · · My day was completely ruined yesterday when I stumbled upon a fun fact that absolutely obliterated my mind. I saw this tweet yesterday that said that not everyone has an internal monologue in their… · Shared by 1979, including sircharlsxavier, mrbrown, Tom Connor, Tom Raftery, Fern, Annik Burgdorfer-Grolimund, Gabrielle Mendoza, Ceferino Díaz, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, Liv 😷, Dominik Grolimund, Carly, venkat - bala, Scott Hanselman 🌮, Jansnet, Trae Blain, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Mina Markham, Beto Esquivel, Ward Plunet
Psychology Today
Love in the Profound Part of the Brain
3 min · · To love well, balance autonomy and connection. · Shared by 77, including l. ones, Liv 😷
Neuroscience News
Why the Brain Never Processes the Same Input in the Same Way
4 min · · Depending on the network state, certain neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex can be more or less excitable, which shapes stimulus processing in the brain. · Shared by 155, including Pip Morris, Matthias Lampe, Liv 😷
WIRED
A Radical New Model of the Brain Illuminates Its Wiring
2 min · · Network neuroscience could revolutionize how we understand the brain—and change our approach to neurological and psychiatric disorders. · Shared by 244, including Anita Leirfall, Rick King, Liv 😷, Aníbal M. Astobiza, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Matteo Furia, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), George M 🇪🇺
Harvard Business Review
Anxious About What’s Next? Here’s How to Cope.
5 min · · Three tips for rewiring your brain. · Shared by 102, including Dr Melanie Greenberg, davidabrock, Gretchen Rubin, Liv 😷, ⭐️Danielle Guzman ⭐️, Matthias Lampe, Jess Tyson (she/her)
WIRED UK
How to hack your brain to remember almost anything
4 min · · Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to use the memory palace technique to boost your memory skills · Shared by 378, including Gabriele, Mark Kaigwa, Jansnet, Katja Evertz, Johannes Dornisch, Linus Basig, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liv 😷, Matthias Lampe, Bilal Aslam, Nicolas Babin, rohit
medicalxpress.com
Brain benefits of exercise can be gained with a single protein
4 min · · A little-studied liver protein may be responsible for the well-known benefits of exercise on the aging brain, according to a new study in mice by scientists in the UC San Francisco Eli and Edythe… · Shared by 109, including David Pearce, Ward Plunet, Matthias Lampe, Liv 😷
Aeon+Psyche
Matthew had a brain injury. Who is he after brain surgery?
14+ min · · An operation to remove a brain cyst changed Matthew’s identity. Who will he become after the next round of surgery? · Shared by 98, including rohit, Vaughan Bell, Dr. A.S. Barwich, Liv 😷, Gregg Caruso, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire
The New York Times
How Exercise May Bolster the Brain
4 min · · Exercise prompts the liver to pump out a little-known protein that appears to rejuvenates the brain, a new study found. · Shared by 169, including Liv 😷, Daniel Kraft, MD, Katja Evertz, Jane, Alastair Goldfisher
Singularity Hub
These Scientists Just Completed a 3D ‘Google Earth’ for the Brain
4 min · · Rather than “just another” brain map, the Julich-Brain atlas is like a neuromapping API—one that could unite old brain-mapping efforts with modern methods. · Shared by 66, including Brian Ahier, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Antonio Vieira Santos, John Hagel, Marktechpost AI Research News ⚡, AXSChat, Liv 😷
The New York Times
Dementia on the Retreat in the U.S. and Europe
4 min · · Rates of dementia have steadily fallen over the past 25 years, a new study finds. But the disease is increasingly common in some parts of the world. · Shared by 125, including Liv 😷, Timothy Lomauro, David Wallace-Wells, Jane, Lisa Gualtieri, Steven Pinker
Ness Labs
Systematic inventive thinking: the power of thinking inside the box
4 min · · When talking about creativity, many people will tell you: “Think outside the box!” The catchphrase is so common in management consulting and business environments, it has become a bit of a cliché.… · Shared by 6280, including Anne-Laure Le Cunff, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, shishir das, Luminous Kaleidoscope, Bernhard Huessy, Jessel Sookha, Liv 😷, Mario Clemente, Matthias Lampe, Michael Carroll, Evan (he/him), Mauro Toselli, Touche Theories
Aeon+Psyche
Why don’t we feel pain in dreams? The answer might lie in a new frontier of neuroscience
2 min · · Why we don’t feel pain in dreams, and other brain puzzles that neuronal assemblies might help neuroscientists unlock · Shared by 149, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Miguel Angel Escotet, Anita Leirfall, Gregor B. Rosenauer, Faik Ersoy, Matthias Lampe, Liv 😷