Brain to Mind

What made Bernie Madoff tick? The guy amiably chatted with life-long friends over dinner as he drained their life savings. Or Jeff Dahmer, who befriended his victims, lured them to his apartment and then had them for dinner. It’s always been disturbing yet fascinating: The Bard got it right when he wrote that one may smile and smile and be a villain.

Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a medical technology that involves wearing a helmet or having pads placed over one’s scalp and having magnetic pulses delivered to specific areas of the brain. It’s a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved treatment for treatment of numerous maladies. Recent research indicates TMS may aid recovery from stroke (https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/brain-magnets-improve-recovery-from)

Even the most beneficial medical treatment causes some level of complications. In order to fully understand whether a treatment is worthwhile, all the potential benefits and all the known complications must be brought to light. 

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-Why do some people love to be scared while other people suffer from a pathological level of fearfulness?

-What’s the difference in brain response between a jump scare movie like Evil Dead and slow burn scare movies like The Shining?

-Why are many people born fearing spiders?

-How does fear flush out the dopamine from your limbic system?

-Can pollution cause pathological fear?

-Can a big hippocampus make you a coward?

-How can brain magnets, brain pacemakers and poop transplants help conquer pathological fear?

Want to learn more? Check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/fear-and-your-brain

Social media platforms like Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook can be just as addictive as drugs or gambling and may be just as harmful in the long run. Social media Addiction is poisoning children and teenagers around the world and here at home, changing their brain chemistry and messing with their mental health. We discuss brain science that backs up this alarming claim and also discuss the solution... and it's simpler than you'd think.

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Good brainwashing? Yes, there is such a thing! This process occurs while we sleep. As our bodies rest and relax, our brains are still as busy as a hive of bees, cleansing away the toxins accumulated from metabolic activity during the day - hence the term “brainwashing”. A good night’s rest facilitates that nightly brainwash, which prevents disease and slows down the brain’s aging process.

Images by Henri Rousseau, Andrew Wyeth, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh

Want to learn more about sleep and your brain? Check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/how-stress-wrecks-your-sleep 

Marcus Aurelius had a lot going on in his life. In what should have been his golden years, he was presiding over an empire at war and contending with an heir who wasn’t up to snuff. He could easily have become a bitter critic. He could’ve easily grown arrogant and thin skinned and unwilling to hear criticism. Instead, out of this crucible came the stoic masterpiece, Meditations, which had a lot of wise things to say about giving and receiving criticism.

If you want to see an expanded version of this, with all the brain science, check out https://youtu.be/fkeqXDmgAHk

Even if you’ve never stepped foot into a museum, you’ve heard the name Pablo Picasso. After all, he was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. He lived from 1881 to 1973. That’s a long life and he created ridiculously good art from his early youth all the way through his final years on earth.

What’s more, the style of Picasso’s artwork changed dramatically throughout his career. That’s what I want to talk about today: How does neuroscience  provide a lens through which to understand Picasso’s changing art styles?

Believe it or not, Picasso’s blue and rose periods correspond to the salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN)) in his brain. What on earth are the SN and DMN and what can all that teach you about your own brain?

want to learn more? check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/picassos-blue-and-red-cerebral-networks

Heat stroke can damage brain cells both directly and indirectly. After you’ve followed your doctor's instructions and are awake and alert, adding some brain superfoods to your hydration may mitigate some effects of heat stroke on your brain.

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Waiting around for the right time to improve your brain function? Well, here’s your sign! It's time to make some changes to your diet. Your brain (the most important machine you'll ever own) is only a fraction of your body’s mass. But, get this, it voraciously consumes 20% of every calorie you stuff in your mouth. You want your brain machine to roar like a Ferrari? You'd better fill the tank with premium.

How about we start with a brainy salad? Watch the video.

-Victoria Perez

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