Category: NeuroThursday

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

This week for NeuroThursday, I unveil some myths & methods of the non-invasive brain stimulation technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)!

Harry Potter Neuroscience #2 (Philosophy of Neuroscience)

This week I decided to pursue the follow-up questions from last week, and address some more philosophical questions about what our neuroscience answers mean!

Harry Potter Neuroscience (Novelty in the Brain)

NeuroThursday is back, picking up a reader’s dare: can I actually write “Harry Potter and the Principles of Neural Science?” It turns out I can! It’s about surprise and novelty in the brain!

Threadreader:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/908508062050406400.html

Twitter original:

Muscle Memory in the Brain

NeuroThursday is back from its summer break to talk about “muscle memory” – that is, skill/procedural memory – and how you can improve it!

NeuroThursday Master Episode List

List of all NeuroThursday episodes, in chronological order (oldest first). Apologies for any inconsistent formatting, but Storify is dead and Threadreader is unreliable, so sometimes a Twitter link/embed is all I can provide.

2017
  1. Neolithic Trephination
  2. Brain Energy Consumption
  3. The 10% Myth
  4. The Discoverer of Neurons
  5. Handedness Across History
  6. Left/Right Brained
  7. Mirror Neurons
  8. Brain Variability
  9. Hand Dominance
  10. Maps in the Brain
  11. The Arm’s Complexity
  12. Precognition and Evidence
  13. Sleep and its Deprivation
  14. Déjà Vu and memory
  15. Placebos and their Efficacy
  16. Artificial Neural Networks
  17. Marijuana Safety
  18. Power Poses
  19. Fluidity of Memory
  20. No Teleportation
  21. False Memories
  22. Phantom Limb Pain
  23. Muscle Memory in the Brain
  24. Harry Potter and the Principles of Neural Science (aka Novelty in the Brain)
  25. Harry Potter and the Theory of Neural Science (aka Philosophy of Neuroscience)
  26. Myths and Methods of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
  27. Power and Costs of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)
  28. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
  29. Saturday Night Palsy
  30. Learning Styles
  31. Solstice Detection (Slow Vision)
2018
  1. The Choke: Skill, Action, and Attention
  2. Peripheral and Color Vision
  3. Filling in the Gaps: Optical Illusions
  4. Filling in the Gaps: Time Itself
  5. The Secret Badassery of your Balance System
  6. Balance 2: Body Position Sense (Proprioception)
  7. Two-Space Typing and Scientific Analysis
  8. Yanni, Laurel, and McGurk: Auditory Illusions
  9. Synesthesia and Evolutionary Psychology
  10. Motion Aftereffects and Adaptation
  11. Dopamine and Meaningful Knowledge
  12. Bonus neuroscience: “What Authors Need to Know about Cybernetics” chapter in Putting the Science in Fiction
2019
  1. Impending Doom
  2. Smell, Taste, and Emotion

You can always find recent episodes by clicking the NeuroThursday link under “Categories” down on the right.

Phantom Limb Pain

This week’s NeuroThursday is on a topic from my postdoctoral research in amputees: phantom limb pain. What is it, what causes it, and why is it so awful?

False Memories

NeuroThursday is back in full neuroscience swing, with the second in an N-part series on memory. This time, false memories: so very common, and so very humbling.

No Teleportation

This week’s NeuroThursday is only partially about neuroscience: it focuses on an article that made the rounds this week, claiming that the Chinese had teleported an object to a satellite. (Spoiler alert: no, they hadn’t.) But I do use a neuroscience story to help me explain the issue!

Fluidity of Memory

Time for another NeuroThursday: this one on how memories get so fluid & unreliable!

 

Power Poses

Have you seen the TED talk on “power posing?” Then you’re going to want to read this week’s NeuroThursday!

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