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Tag: neuroscience

This is your DNA on drugs

Posted January 4, 2020 by Taylor Woodward

A photograph of a fried egg in a pan, which symbolizes your brain on drugs in the Partnership for a Drug-Free America commercials from the 80s and 90s. Image credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frying_egg.jpg

In the 80’s and 90’s, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America released several public service announcement commercials, which aimed to inform the public about the dangers of drugs of abuse. The commercials, which have made a lasting impact on society and pop culture, featured a shot sequence and narration of your brain (an uncracked egg),… Read more »

Brain technology in Black Mirror: Technological myths or real possibilities? Part III

Posted December 28, 2019 by Abolfazl Alipour

a futuristic digital head is split into 4 parts, with light coming out of the center

In the third part of this blog series, we will finish looking into human consciousness by thinking about what happens to it after death. If you have not seen the episodes, do not worry, spoilers are kept at a minimum! You can read parts 1 and 2 here. San Junipero is a virtual afterlife into… Read more »

Brain technology in Black Mirror: Technological myths or real possibilities? Part II

Posted December 7, 2019 by Abolfazl Alipour

futuristic outline of a human head with the brain outlined

In the second part of this blog series, we will look at three episodes where proposed technologies involve human consciousness. We will see if these technologies can become real possibilities in the near future. If you have not seen the episodes, do not worry, spoilers are kept at a minimum! You can also read part… Read more »

Brain technology in Black Mirror: Technological myths or real possibilities? Part I

Posted October 19, 2019 by Abolfazl Alipour

Computer central processing unit wrapped in neurons

If you happen to watch Black Mirror, it is quite likely that you have been scared by the brain implant technologies depicted in the show. In fact, almost a quarter of this show—at least five episodes of the current 22— illustrate the dangers of brain implants. The horror stories range widely, from transferring someone’s consciousness into… Read more »

How neuroscientists and engineers make good collaborative partners

Posted October 12, 2019 by Anna Zhen

Midsagittal View of the Brain.

To treat a knee scrape, people often put a band-aid on it. Or, to relieve back pain, people may use an ice pack. While these examples involve anatomical regions that people can easily locate and treat, this is not always the case with all aspects of anatomy. For instance, to observe the brain, which is… Read more »

A psychology commencement speech

Posted June 8, 2019 by Guest Contributor

A brain sitting in front of the Psychology Building on the Indiana University Bloomington campus.

The author of this post is guest contributor Josiah Leong, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington. He recently moved to Bloomington after finishing his graduate studies at Stanford University. He is excited to share insights from psychological science with his new community. Below is an unconventional… Read more »

A change of perspective

Posted June 1, 2019 by Alexandra Moussa-Tooks and Guest Contributor

A colorful, symmetrical structure that resembles a butterfly with antennae on a black background.

One author is ScIU guest writer Melanie Chin, a graduate student in IU’s Department of Biology and Program in Neuroscience. This post is part of a series featuring amazing science images and the stories behind them. Comment below with your guess and read on to see if you are correct! There is no argument that the… Read more »

What music does to your brain: A neuroscientist’s perspective

Posted April 2, 2019 by Taylor Woodward

An artist’s rendition of a brain, in which a large number of musical notation marks are arranged to form the silhouette of an anatomically accurate human brain.

Why do we like music? Music is interwoven into almost every aspect of our lives. We hear it at the grocery store and in every single video we watch. We listen to it when we exercise, and we pay boatloads of money to go see our favorite artists in concert. We love all kinds of… Read more »

Kissing, hand holding, and somatotopic organization in the brain

Posted February 12, 2019 by Taylor Woodward

A couple holding hands during a sunset.

Have you ever wondered why humans express affection by kissing and hand holding?  As with most things in life, the more you think about it, the weirder that it seems.  Here’s an interesting insight from neuroscience that is fun to think about next time you decide that you want to over-analyze your love life even… Read more »

The art of dissemination part 3: Care to share?

Posted August 14, 2018 by Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Man in lab coat lecturing to children in a medical setting.

This is the third part of a series on the dissemination of science. Catch up on part 1 here or part 2 here! Flowing from a renaissance of scientific dissemination, the public is hungry for knowledge. The increasing accessibility of information right at our fingertips (or keyboards) has caused a surge in media-based public dissemination… Read more »

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