Why Your Brain Keeps Worrying – and How Brain Plasticity Might be Able to Help
We’ve all had the experience of our minds getting a bit stuck on a topic – chewing it over, turning it over, and unable to let it go.
Brain Health In The Time of the Coronavirus
The past month has been tough. All across the world, people have been asked to stay home and socially isolate themselves to protect themselves and their communities against the spread of the COVID19 pandemic. At Posit Science, we’ve all been working from home for five weeks now, sheltering in place with our families or roommates,…
A New Review of New Ways to Improve Brain Health
For decades, we’ve been waiting on the scientific community to find a cure for Alzheimer’s—but very little progress has been made. The first drug used to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer’s was Cognex (tacrine), which was approved in 1993; and the most recent was Namenda (memantine), approved in 2003.
The Evidence for Brain Training – Seeing the Whole Picture
Brain training works! Brain training doesn’t work! Every week, I see a new headline in the news about brain training, and they reliably go back and forth between these two extremes like the tick-tock of a clock.
A Vote of Confidence for Brain Training
Sometimes when I read science news, it seems as though the world is moving incredibly quickly. I see stories about gene editing, stem cells, and cloning…and I think, “what time to be alive!” But usually just a bit later, I read more science news, and it seems like the world is moving incredible slowly. We…
Good Science Is Rewarded
How many of us were told by our moms and dads when we were young that “good things come to those who wait?” But sometimes that wait can seem like forever…
Tom Brady’s (no longer) Secret Weapon: BrainHQ
Our blog editor asked me to write about how we started working with Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady.
Brain Training and Its Critics
When I was in college, I took a lot of science courses. Really, a lot — maybe even too many. And mostly what they taught me was how scientists believed the world worked — right then, as of the early 1990’s. Luckily for me, my college roommate took a somewhat broader curriculum, and much to my benefit, we talked…