Ian Sample talks to Dr Laura Pritschet, a postdoctoral fellow of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, about her research using precision scans to capture the profound changes that sweep across the brain during pregnancy. She explains what this new work reveals about how the brain is reorganised in this period, whether it could it help us better understand conditions like pre-eclampsia and postnatal depression, and why women’s brains have often been overlooked by neuroscience
Understanding how the human brain produces complex thought is daunting given its intricacy and scale. The brain contains approximately 100 billion neurons that coordinate activity through 100 trillion connections, and those connections are organized into networks that are often similar from one person to the next. A Dartmouth study has found a new way to look at brain networks using the mathematical notion of fractals, to convey communication patterns between different brain regions as people listened to a short story.
Sure, grit can help you get ahead. But a new study has found that if you lean on grit to white-knuckle through adversity too often, and don’t learn other ways to cope and care for yourself, you might end up damaging your brain.
Ranging from a threatening hiss to a blood-curdling scream, the sound of the Aztec death whistle is as creepy as the skull-like appearance of the instrument that produces it.
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Kun aivomme lukevat tekstiä silmäillen, emme ehdi tavoittaa asioiden monimutkaisuutta, ymmärtää toisten ihmisten tunteita tai havaita kauneutta. Maryanne Wolf haluaa raivata tilaa syventyneelle luku- ja kirjoitustaidolle.
By Joan Richardson | Nov 1, 2014 | Interview
Every child needs a repertoire of digital skills, but educators also must ensure children develop the deep reading skills of an expert reader.
Made by Daniel Nils Roberts, originally published on 7 October 2021.
Maryanne Wolf hoping for 'biliterate' brains, children and minds.
Things *not* mentioned: library, neuroplasticity
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