For those of you looking for a fresh new excuse for playing videogames instead of studying for your Biological Psychology midterm, here’s one I might actually buy into. Daphne Bavelier and Shawn Green of the University of Rochester demonstrated that participants who played 30 hours (over a one month period) of Unreal Read more…
In a recent report in Science, Antoine Bechara and his colleagues at USC interviewed 69 people who had smoked at least six cigarettes per day for more than two years before experiencing brain injury [1]. Of the 69 people in the study, 19 had damaged the insula, an area of Read more…
All of us know that high levels of “bad” cholesterol, or LDL-C, put a person at risk for stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Now we have news, submitted by an alert student, that suggests that low levels of LDL-C might also cause problems, in this case by increasing a person’s chances Read more…
As my readers know, I am a diehard football fan. Although I watch more college football than NFL games (they just seem more unpredictable and exciting somehow), I like it all (even Arena football). Unfortunately, the game is not without its risks, and the risk of repeated concussions is pretty Read more…
I always warn my students to use their critical thinking skills when I talk about caffeine. After all, this is the person who drank an average of 20 cups of coffee per day during graduate school. My boss at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute turned me in to colleagues who were studying Read more…