Insight Summaries
Each insight in a few minutes: the point, who made it and why it matters.
Neuroscience 37Topic page
- Insight | Leary, Good Friday and the ban: revisiting the first psychedelic research wave
- Insight | Why time crawls and flies: how the brain warps your sense of time
- Insight | Change the body to change the mind: why thinking alone isn't enough
- Insight | Guard your working memory: fewer tasks, ramp-up time, no multitasking
- Insight | Is the mind more than the brain? Leaf, Sapolsky and Strassman disagree
- Insight | Mindfulness in the clinic: pain, trauma and wandering minds
- Insight | Rehearse in your head: visualization, foreshadowing failure and alter egos
- Insight | Super stimuli: why processed food, porn and apps overpower reward circuits
- Insight | Deliberate over reflexive: strengthening top-down control of impulses
- Insight | Exercise is brain medicine: BDNF, energy and faster thinking
- Insight | How to read a brain study: causality, reproducibility and hype
- Insight | Psychedelics and ketamine as plasticity openers, not magic cures
- Insight | Reward the effort, not the result: teaching dopamine to love hard work
- Insight | Short stress sharpens you, chronic stress wears you down
- Insight | Smell goes straight to memory and emotion
- Insight | When you eat matters: meal timing and the body clock
- Insight | Where creative insight comes from: REM, loose associations and play
- Insight | Why venting backfires but structured writing and understanding heal
- Insight | Adult brains still rewire, but only when you pay close attention
- Insight | Non-sleep deep rest: a zero-cost reset for focus and learning
- Insight | Speed and potency drive addiction: vaping, concentrates and fast rewards
- Insight | Loneliness is a hunger: the brain's social reward circuit
- Insight | Two hours outside and near-far drills: protecting eyes in a screen age
- Insight | Alcohol, cannabis and nicotine: what everyday drugs actually do to the brain
- Insight | Brain implants today: what's real and what's still speculation
- Insight | Bright days, dark nights: light timing for mood and sleep
- Insight | Doing hard things grows the brain's tenacity hub
- Insight | Fail at the right rate: the 85% rule and errors that drive plasticity
- Insight | How attention gets hijacked: lessons from magicians, psyops and placebo
- Insight | Pain is built in the brain, and that makes it changeable
- Insight | Protect your head: what neurosurgeons and neurologists say about concussion
- Insight | Rest is when learning sticks: sleep, micro-breaks and offline gains
- Insight | The drug isn't the whole treatment: set, setting and psychedelic therapy
- Insight | Tools for stress that work: breathing, self-talk and choosing your own
- Insight | Your gut talks to your brain: food, microbes and cravings
- Insight | Belief is biology: how expectations change dopamine, hormones and pain
- Insight | More dopamine isn't better: the inverted U behind focus and motivation