“It’s hard to keep all the diet news straight… What should I eat to keep my brain healthy?”
A complete and balanced diet is probably the most sound advice, but some specific types of food are especially good for brain health. Here are a few of the best:
Fish: The original “brain food” contains lots of omega-3 [...]
Most of the time it’s a good thing that the human brain has a great ongoing capacity to learn and change. It allows useful adaptation throughout the lifespan and the development of complex skills like language. But it’s possible that this long period of plasticity also exposes the brain to psychiatric illness such as schizophrenia. [...]
Guest author Elizabeth Buchen is a neuroscientist and science writer, and a member of the Lumos Labs science advisory board. Below she describes new research showing 1.) that monkeys can inform decisions by learning probability distributions; and 2.) individual neurons encode this information by adjusting firing rate. Visit Madam Fathom to read more about the [...]
Oscar Pistorius, who lost both legs as an infant and then began running just 3 years ago, wants a spot in the 2008 Olympic 200m. Amazingly, at 21.58s he’s within 1 second of the qualifying time. He uses artificial limbs called Cheetahs (italicized to indicate speed), which, though they are just passive extensions of his [...]
