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A graph of scientific articles published per year which mention four major neurotransmitters in their title: What I take from this is Dopamine is king! And with great popularity, comes great misr...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/03/15/neurotransmitter-fashion/

There’s a great ongoing podcast series called A Neuroscientist Explains that looks at some of the most important points of contact between neuroscience and the wider world. It’s a project of ...

https://mindhacks.com/2017/02/26/a-neuroscientist-podcaster-explains/

A fascinating new study has just been published which found evidence for the immune system attacking a neuroreceptor in the brain in a small proportion of people with psychosis. It’s an interes...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/12/08/is-psychosis-an-immune-disorder/

I just stumbled across a fascinating 2002 paper where pioneering sleep researcher Allan Hobson describes the effect of a precisely located stroke he suffered. It affected the medulla in his brain...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/09/24/hallucinating-sleep-researchers/

One of the most commented-upon posts on this blog is this from 2009, ‘Exploding head syndrome‘. The name stems from the 1920s, and describes an under-documented and mysterious condition in wh...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/09/19/a-literary-case-of-the-exploding-head/

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a post-screening Q&A with the film-makers of an amazing documentary called My Beautiful Broken Brain. One of the many remarkable things about the documentar...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/05/22/reconstructing-through-altered-states/

I’ve got an article in The Atlantic on the hypnagogic state – the brief hallucinatory period between wakefulness and sleep – and how it is being increasingly used as a tool to make sense of...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/04/20/a-brief-hallucinatory-twilight/

I’ve got a piece in today’s Observer looking back on 20 years since novelist Tom Wolfe wrote a landmark article that threw open the doors on how the new science of cognitive neuroscience was ...

https://mindhacks.com/2016/02/21/the-death-of-the-soul-has-been-greatly-exaggerated/

Neuroscientist Matt Wall did a fascinating talk on all things neuroimaging at a recent TEDx Vienna event. It’s a gently funny, engrossing talk that both introduces brain imaging and discuss som...

https://mindhacks.com/2015/12/04/neuroimaging-in-20-minutes/

MIT Technology Review has jaw dropping article about brain-computer interface research Phil Kennedy. In the face of diminishing funding and increasing regulation he “paid a surgeon in Central A...

https://mindhacks.com/2015/11/09/extremes-of-self-experimentation-with-brain-electrodes/