Little did Jason Padgett, of Tacoma, Washington think that the vicious mugging he received when he left a karaoke club ten years ago was going to be a positive thing. He thought he was going to die when the attackers continued to kick him in the head just to steal his $99 leather jacket. The [...]
The workings of the hippocampus area of our brain are still mysterious to neuroscientists. This is the area of the brain that plays an important part in consolidating information in order to process it through the short-term and long-term memory. What secrets lay behind the hippocampus? Does it have a visual map that lays out [...]
There may be something to those stories that McDonald’s and Burger King diets can affect our brains. A 2012 study published in Nature Neuroscience links diets high in fat to neurogenesis (growing of new brain cells) and obesity in mice. According to the study, mice were placed into two groups - one fed a normal [...]
We are becoming increasingly conscious of the number of people there actually are in this world who hoard, largely due to a popular reality show, “Hoarders.†As many of us watch the show in awe we have to believe that there is some type of mental disorder that kicks in and causes otherwise “normal†people [...]
