Concussion

Why concussions require the right treatment, right away. This article is based on the latest research from 2014. A concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, follows any force to the head resulting in changes to brain and cognitive function. The force can...

Periods with Potential

Different functions in the brain, such as thinking and seeing, develop during varying time windows, as nerve cells form new connections called synapses. Though scientists used to think such development had clear peaks and then waned with age (image), evidence now...

Believing is not seeing

You might think this is a fish, but actually it’s a bunch of pixels, behind which is a heap of binary code – ones and zeros. Our brains construct objects from a series of smaller building blocks, which is called our “visual vocabulary”. Most of...