BRAINDECODER

Don’t sound the death knell for free will just yet. Despite tantalizing evidence that our brains are doing much more than we’re aware of, free will may still exist. It just hasn’t been proven yet.

Music has powerful impacts on the mind and a strange relationship with science and society. It has now made its way into the clinic as a tool to help heal a variety of medical conditions. But at the same time, it’s been used as a device to torture captives in service of the War on…

Many people take recreational drugs at some point in their lives, but only some become addicted. Their risk for addiction may be higher due to their genes, their environment, and as new evidence suggests, their brain structure.

Music is one of several triggers that have been known to occasionally rouse patients from unconsciousness. The exact mechanisms are still a mystery, but using new technologies, researchers can observe better than ever before the ways in which music can stimulate key parts of the unconscious brain.

For at least ten years, Jennifer Aniston has been, in a way, part of a furious debate among neuroscientists about how we encode our memories.

These cells are not only incredibly small, but also blend in perfectly with their neighbors, as if they are individual noodles compressed in a larger bowl of spaghetti. But with their discovery also came a rapid progression in methods developed to visualize and study them. A century ago neurons appeared only in drawings. Now, they…