How relevant is bias research?
The bias industry is all pervasive in marketing and economics and the politics of the present. Should it be?
Genes influence structure of cerebral cortex
How much of the variability of brain structure and function relates to genetics?
Stress and panic in the post-Covid-19 world.
The neural pathways showing how we control our response to stress are slowly being discovered. This is very relevant in our current situation.
How we think about Race and what we can do about it.
Racial bias is innate to all of us, but we can choose how we react.
The Illusion of Happiness
BREAKING NEWS! Happiness may not exist. It may just be the biggest, most publicized, the most searched for feeling ever, and it may not exist. In fact searching for it may make you depressed.
Revealing the Connectome
Revealing the connectome is bringing a new understanding of brain function and how it can be used to diagnose and treat brain disorders.
The Problem with Pain
The problem with chronic pain is that it is a perceptual disorder involving changes in brain structure and function that is felt as a physical reality.
How the Brain Thinks
In this book, I show how a hierarchy of functions within the brain produce attention, consciousness, emotion, memory and perception. These are largely mediated by frontal cortical circuits.
Why are we so biased?
Bias is so common in human thinking. Now we are closer to understanding why.
What is Consciousness?
One of the main problems with the study of consciousness is that there is no widely accepted definition of what consciousness actually is. So, how do we study something that may not actually exist?