AI-Accelerated Brain Chip Allows Man who Lost the Ability to Speak to Use His Voice Again
Imagine not being able to say “I love you,” crack a joke, or even ask for help – not because you don’t want
Praise for my “Tech on the Brain” Keynote Talk
Many people these days worry about what intensive tech use might be doing to their brains. In particular, there is concern about how overuse of genAI might lead to problems. Happily there’s plenty of evidence for me to talk about in my 60 min keynote and it’s been going down really well with professional audiences from a wide variety of different industries.
Exercise Before You Socialise
Muller x My Protein commissioned me to dig into the scientific research on the impact of exercise on the human brain for a recent PR campaign “Sweat to Spark”. They wanted to know if there was any evidence to support the idea that exercise primes our brains for social interaction. As it turns out, there’s plenty!
What is Media Multitasking doing to your Brain?
I often work out of a library in central London when I need to get something done that requires quiet, intensive, sustained focus.
Book Review: “The Anxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt
The scientific evidence regarding the impact of intensive technology use on young people has slowly but surely been accumulating over the past decade or so. The results are now in and the message is unequivocal: excessive use of screens is screwing our kids up.
What is your Smartphone doing to your Brain?
Over the past few weeks I’ve been contributing to a public relations campaign to help people understand what they can do to gain all the benefits of using smartphones, while dodging the pitfalls associated with overuse.
Mindfulness Meditation in VR
The brain benefits of mindfulness meditation are numerous and I’ve written about it in this brain blog many times and the literature support
Watching Game of Thrones in an MRI scanner to help throw light on how brains process faces
Fascinating new study on face blindness or prosopagnosia hits the neuroscience press
Keynote Speaking for Business Brains
When it comes to motivational speaking, no matter what an organisation’s priorities are, the neuroscience literature always yields some useful inspiration.
Adolescent Brains in the 21st Century by Dr Jack
Adolescence is a time of trial and error, of the highest emotional highs and the lowest lows. By adulthood most of us have accrued enough experience to have an instinct on the right way to deal with most situations. But adults often forget that as children our instincts were usually very unreliable because, without enough time to develop extensive experience, instincts are driven primarily by the urge to experiment.