Drumming Up Some Neuroplasticity
I thought I’d dedicate this month’s blog to how to thicken up the brain wires that connect the left and right parts of your frontal brain.
Slight Hearing Loss Means Cognitive Impairment
When it comes to the important task of holding onto your marbles in your 50’s and beyond, pouncing immediately on hearing loss is vital.
My Top 10 Virtual Reality Experiences
This month’s blog is dedicated to my Top 10 VR experiences to date
Brain Man VR on YouTube
I’m delighted to announce the launch of my new YouTube channel BRAIN MAN VR. Each week I share some tips and tricks on
A Ciência Do Pecado
The Science of Sin is now available in Portuguese!
Endure
This is my review of a great book on the latest research investigating the outer limits of athletic endurance
Dr Jack’s Comedy Debut on BBC2
This month I appeared on the very first episode of a brand new, big budget, primetime BBC2 comedy show called the RANGANATION to talk about the evidence so far regarding what smartphones might be doing to our brains…
Neural Speech – Neural Nets Will Soon Be Able To Do All The Talking For You
Once in a blue moon a neuroscience story will totally blow me away. A team of scientists just did it again by generating intelligible speech from a person’s brainwaves…
Superstitions & Conspiracies
It always comes as a shock to the system when I realise that a friend or family member has firmly-held beliefs about a superstition or conspiracy theory, despite the absence of any strong evidence to support it, so I thought I’d have a dig around in the scientific literature that has sought to explain these tendencies.
Poverty of Empathy and Smartphone Overuse
People who overuse their smartphones may gradually find themselves behaving in an increasingly anti-social manner compared to those who use them in moderation. It could even trigger a slide back into the incivility of previous ages.