After last quarter’s amazing trip to the UCSB Brain Imaging Lab, the Neuroscience Club was hoping for an encore, and found it in UCSB’s ReCVEB lab. This stands for “Research Center for Virtual Environments and Behavior.” Cade McCall and his staff kindly showed us the details of their work, much Read more…
A new article in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine points to some correlations between depression in women and high BMI and Internet use in men and the likelihood that they played videogames. I’m fairly certain that the original article is careful about the distinction between correlation and causality, but Read more…
I am always up for suggestions on how to improve brain function, whether this means Sudoku, videogames, exercise, diet, and so on. So I read with interest that a group of UCLA researchers are reporting correlations between gray matter volume and the practice of meditation [1]. I have never tried Read more…