Even if you’ve never stepped foot into a museum, you’ve heard the name Pablo Picasso. After all, he was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. He lived from 1881 to 1973. That’s a long life and he created ridiculously good art from his early youth all the way through his final years on earth.
What’s more, the style of Picasso’s artwork changed dramatically throughout his career. That’s what I want to talk about today: How does neuroscience provide a lens through which to understand Picasso’s changing art styles?
Believe it or not, Picasso’s blue and rose periods correspond to the salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN)) in his brain. What on earth are the SN and DMN and what can all that teach you about your own brain?
want to learn more? check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/picassos-blue-and-red-cerebral-networks
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How almonds and walnuts benefit your brain.
Quick! Without peeking, which do you like better, almonds or walnuts?
Are you the gal that faces Hopeless odds yet still holds out Hope? Or are you the dude that Folds like a lawn chair after the first setback? The right path, of course, is somewhere in between.
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To learn more, check out The Mind Unlocked: Neurological, Nutritional and Behavioral Paths to Free Your Brain's Potential https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476692254
Felix isn't looking for trouble. His day job as a neurosurgeon at a gritty New York City trauma hospital keeps him plenty busy. If there's one thing he can't stand, though, it's injustice. Especially when the powerful wrong the powerless in the worst way. The cases Felix gets wrapped up in aren't your run of the mill murders, either. Though he's a man of science, Felix finds it harder and harder to deny the existence of an other-worldly darkness, which stalks him and those he loves.
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When you eat three square meals a day (and fill your plate with representatives of each of the four food groups) your brain burns sugar. Glucose, to be precise, and boatloads of it. That’s all well and good, because your brain runs on heavy fuel. It vacuums up two out of every ten calories you consume. If you’re swaying in the hammock under a shady tree and contemplating life’s mysteries (or having a vivid daydream) that percentage may rise to an even fifty. When your blood sugar dips, your ever-voracious brain commands your body to produce an alternative energy source (ketones).
Why not enjoy a dessert that also boosts brain function?
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Denny is a PhD student whose side hustle takes on a life of its own when his machine merges with a twenty-something waiter named Sean.
Before long, all the wrong people start to notice:
-A secret religious order, The Urialites, prophesy the dawning of the New Age of Nephilim.
-A clandestine unit of Chinese commandos believe they’ve stumbled upon an invincible weapon.
-Sean isn’t sure he wants any part of the new guest.
-As for the machine… well, it has its own ideas.
Nephilim reached #4 on Kindle’s list of Metaphysical Science Fiction
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What made Bernie Madoff tick? The guy amiably chatted with life-long friends over dinner as he drained their life savings. Or Jeff Dahmer, who befriended his victims, lured them to his apartment and then had them for dinner. It’s always been disturbing yet fascinating: The Bard got it right when he wrote that one may smile and smile and be a villain.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a medical technology that involves wearing a helmet or having pads placed over one’s scalp and having magnetic pulses delivered to specific areas of the brain. It’s a United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved treatment for treatment of numerous maladies. Recent research indicates TMS may aid recovery from stroke (https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/brain-magnets-improve-recovery-from)
Even the most beneficial medical treatment causes some level of complications. In order to fully understand whether a treatment is worthwhile, all the potential benefits and all the known complications must be brought to light.
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-Why do some people love to be scared while other people suffer from a pathological level of fearfulness?
-What’s the difference in brain response between a jump scare movie like Evil Dead and slow burn scare movies like The Shining?
-Why are many people born fearing spiders?
-How does fear flush out the dopamine from your limbic system?
-Can pollution cause pathological fear?
-Can a big hippocampus make you a coward?
-How can brain magnets, brain pacemakers and poop transplants help conquer pathological fear?
Want to learn more? Check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/fear-and-your-brain
Social media platforms like Instagram, Tiktok, and Facebook can be just as addictive as drugs or gambling and may be just as harmful in the long run. Social media Addiction is poisoning children and teenagers around the world and here at home, changing their brain chemistry and messing with their mental health. We discuss brain science that backs up this alarming claim and also discuss the solution... and it's simpler than you'd think.
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Good brainwashing? Yes, there is such a thing! This process occurs while we sleep. As our bodies rest and relax, our brains are still as busy as a hive of bees, cleansing away the toxins accumulated from metabolic activity during the day - hence the term “brainwashing”. A good night’s rest facilitates that nightly brainwash, which prevents disease and slows down the brain’s aging process.
Images by Henri Rousseau, Andrew Wyeth, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Gustav Klimt, Vincent van Gogh
Want to learn more about sleep and your brain? Check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/how-stress-wrecks-your-sleep
Marcus Aurelius had a lot going on in his life. In what should have been his golden years, he was presiding over an empire at war and contending with an heir who wasn’t up to snuff. He could easily have become a bitter critic. He could’ve easily grown arrogant and thin skinned and unwilling to hear criticism. Instead, out of this crucible came the stoic masterpiece, Meditations, which had a lot of wise things to say about giving and receiving criticism.
If you want to see an expanded version of this, with all the brain science, check out https://youtu.be/fkeqXDmgAHk
Even if you’ve never stepped foot into a museum, you’ve heard the name Pablo Picasso. After all, he was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century. He lived from 1881 to 1973. That’s a long life and he created ridiculously good art from his early youth all the way through his final years on earth.
What’s more, the style of Picasso’s artwork changed dramatically throughout his career. That’s what I want to talk about today: How does neuroscience provide a lens through which to understand Picasso’s changing art styles?
Believe it or not, Picasso’s blue and rose periods correspond to the salience network (SN) and default mode network (DMN)) in his brain. What on earth are the SN and DMN and what can all that teach you about your own brain?
want to learn more? check out https://brain2mind.substack.com/p/picassos-blue-and-red-cerebral-networks
