Tag: MIND

  • Science & Tech

    The future of mind control

    A new paper explores why neuron-like implants could offer a better way to treat brain disorders, control prosthetics, or even enhance cognitive abilities.

    4 minutes
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  • Health

    When wandering minds are just fine

    While most of the psychological literature calls mind wandering a detrimental “failure of executive control” or a “dysfunctional cognitive state,” a new study led by Paul Seli, a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow working in the lab of Dan Schacter, suggests that in some cases there’s no harm in it.

    7 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    How to defend against your own mind

    Harvard psychology chair Mahzarin Banaji is working with a research fellow to launch a new project called “Outsmarting Human Minds.”

    3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Minding the details of mind wandering

    A new study sheds light on important differences between intentional and unintentional mind wandering.

    5 minutes
  • Health

    Giving Huntington’s disease the one-two punch

    The identification of a molecular compound that combats Huntington’s disease by means of two separate mechanisms may be the watershed moment in the battle against neurodegenerative diseases.

    3 minutes