The best advice I was given as I entered my first year of college was to make the most out of all the opportunities available at my fingertips. …

Co-written by Sherin Lajevardi and Mateo Pitkin You are taking an exam when you suddenly stumble upon a problem that you have no idea how to solve. You sit and stare at the paper as your mind races through all the possible formulas you have learned throughout the quarter until…

Humans exhibit the highest levels of self-awareness and pragmatism of any species on earth– that’s no secret. It’s clear that without such unparalleled mental faculties, we wouldn’t be where we are today. But I would also argue that humans are eternally flawed. I’m not exactly sure what that flaw is…

Founder Leandro Castelluccio and Martin Machin share their vision on Naxon Labs Naxon Labs, a company working with portable EEG technology and Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), recently launched Naxon Explorer, an intuitive platform for EEG analysis and processing that aims to overcome the current barriers to neurotechnology. Equipped with elegant visualization…

Morality is such a hard quality to define and yet one of the cornerstones of human civilization. Whether we look at religious passages in the Bible or stories from Aesop’s Fables, lessons on morality are ubiquitous in our society, and moral values are imparted upon as at a tender age…

My first exposure to the phenomenon of synesthesia was in high school; I was hanging out with my friends after school and one of Kanye’s old albums was blasting in the car. One of my friend then proceeded to make an offhanded comment about how he wished he could “see”…

100 Billion Neurons. Trillions of Synapses. All in One Brain. What’s normal when it comes to the brain? The short answer: it’s hard to say. Although every human brain shares a common physical architecture, each individual brain has its own unique wiring of neurons and synapses shaped by our thoughts…

Using Digital Biomarkers as a Predictor of Mental Health — Mental Health and the Status Quo Anyone who has taken a basic psychology course has probably heard of the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders). It’s basically a big book of every mental and neuropsychiatric disorder that psychiatrists use to diagnose and treat patients. …

I have friends that produce music, dance effortlessly, and create paintings that are hauntingly realistic, and unfortunately, none of that comes easily to me. I’m just not that good at art as I would like to be. Perhaps partly due to my lack of artistic abilities and partly due to…