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Why Context Matters – A Case Study
You’ve probably heard this before, but context and nuance are crucial when interpreting scientific data and findings. We’ve touched on their importance in science before, but in today’s post, we would like to give you a concrete example for that.
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Mirror Neurons Are Overhyped
Română Mirror neurons were hailed as the explanation for empathy, autism, language learning, human self-awareness, and so much more. But was the hype really warranted? In this article, we take a look at why mirror neuron research seems to have promised more than it could deliver. But first, what are mirror neurons exactly? Simply put,…
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How Climate Change Impacts Neuroscience
Română The twelfth prompt of our science advent is asking us to take a look at a perhaps surprising factor that might impact neuroscience, namely climate change. There is mounting evidence that climate change, and more specifically the extreme temperatures that define it, have a profound impact on the nervous system, both in healthy and…
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Neuroscience and Math
Română Due to unforeseen circumstances, our science advent has taken a bit of a break, but we’re back and ready to talk about the eleventh prompt, if and how math helps us in neuroscience. Well, as a computational neuroscientist, my entire job is basically about math, physics, and programming. In general, to put it simply,…
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Why Pain Is Important
Română Day 10 of the science advent is taking us into the territory of obscure fun facts. For today, we’ve chosen a rare condition to talk about, namely congenital insensitivity to pain, congenital analgesia or congenital nociceptor deficiency. People who suffer from this condition are unable to feel physical pain. In theory, it sounds like…
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The Beauty of Brain Connections
Română Today’s prompt is a light one: it asks us to share a beautiful image from our field. About ten years ago, Muse uncovered the artwork of their album, The 2nd Law. Provided by the Human Connectome Project, this image depicts structural connections in the brain, i.e. fibres that link different brain regions. It remains…
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Simplifying the Brain – Will It Work?
Română Today’s prompt is about an unsolved scientific mystery in our field. In neuroscience, the entire brain is basically an unsolved mystery. We simply don’t understand it. But today we’d like to talk to you about a mystery within this very sentence. We consider that the discussion surrounding our understanding of the brain is not…
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If fMRI Had Been Invented 100 Years Earlier
Română The seventh science advent prompt is asking to engage in a bit of speculation and imagine how our field would have looked like, should a discovery or invention entered the game 100 years earlier. The obvious choice for us is the poster child of neuroimaging, functional magnetic resonance imaging or fMRI, in brief. fMRI…
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Helplessness Is Not Learned
Română On the sixth day of our science advent, we would like to talk about a debunked concept in neuroscience. The purpose of this prompt and of science debunking, in general, is not to make fun of how scientists in the past got things so wrong and how we’re so much smarter now. The point…
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Brain Activity of Dogs
Română Today’s prompt is asking us to talk about the funniest scientific discovery from our field. Now, we don’t know if what we’re going to talk about is really the funniest one because, unfortunately, there is no Funniest Neuroscience competition. But it’s about dogs, so it’s got to be good. It turns out, there is…