Tag: neuroscience
All the articles with the tag "neuroscience".
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brain7 min readNeuroplasticity: How Your Brain Rewires Itself
Your brain physically changes shape based on what you do every day. Here is how it works, what helps, and what gets in the way.
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brain6 min readFight or Flight: Your Brain Under Threat
Your brain triggers the same alarm for a bear and for a bad tweet. Here is what happens inside your body, and why it matters more than you think.
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brain7 min readDopamine: The Molecule That Drives Everything
What dopamine actually does in your brain, why it controls motivation more than pleasure, and how your phone is quietly draining it.
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brain7 min readMemory: How We Learn, Store, and Forget
How your brain turns experiences into memories, why you forget most of what you learn within hours, and how constant distraction is making it worse.
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brain7 min readHow We Think: From Sensation to Decision
How your brain turns 11 million bits of sensory input into a decision, and why most of what feels like conscious thought happens after the fact.
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brain5 min readNeurons and Synapses: The Hardware Behind Every Thought
How 86 billion neurons use electrical spikes and chemical messengers to create every thought, and why one brain cell outcomputes a thousand AI nodes.
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brain6 min readThe Brain Roadmap: Understanding Your Own Operating System
Why understanding how your brain works is practical self-defense in the age of AI algorithms designed to manipulate your attention.