Lab Wars Interview To subscribe to Neuroamer audio content in podcast form, click here. This is an unusual post for the blog because it’s primarily an audio interview  with charming Caezar Al-Jassar, Ph.D, co-creator of the game Lab Wars. The conversation goes into having a side project as a young academic and Caezar’s kickstarter success, but also touches […]

Do you drink a glass of water before going to bed? Then, hate to break it to you, but you have something in common with a mouse. Overview A new paper suggests that a mouse’s biological clock increases its thirst shortly before it sleeps.1 Why? The study’s authors suggest this increased drive to drink, allows a […]

Fast Food – Fast News Trump is really, really smart. His intellect is huge and he knows things. Many such things. Excellent man. One thing he knows: Our schools are really, really bad. Really, really, really bad. They’re nasty places. And maybe because of that, he uses plain language. Shaming or blaming people for being […]

“We are closer to attaining cheerful serenity by simplifying thoughts and figures. Simplifying the idea to achieve an expression of joy. That is our only deed.” – Henri Mattise I’m of the opinion you should never trust a Nobel Prize winner[1], or at least you should pay them no more attention than your crazy uncle on […]

Modified from Mahmoud Ibrahim I wake up drenched in sweat and shivering. I feel so cold, that I pull the blankets up over my face, but when my hand touches my face it feels burning hot. What’s going on? Is this all a fever dream? I have a fever and I’m over-heating, so the blazing skin and […]

While researching last week’s post on the Best popular neuroscience books, I came upon many people asking: Which is the best neuroscience textbook? Is there any consensus? I looked up the top neuroscience graduate programs in the U.S.[1] and found syllabi from introductory neuroscience classes taught at these universities. Here’s a couple tables summarizing the textbooks being […]

Step aside, Cesar Millan—these days when you want to know what the dog really saw, ask a scientist, not a Dog Whisperer. While studies of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) have long been fundamental to neuroscience—it was Pavlov’s dog after all that drooled when it heard that bell—dog research is undergoing a renaissance due to advances in genetic […]

When I first sleep with someone we have to have the talk: “You really wear one of those?” It can be a bit embarrassing to sleep with an eye mask and earplugs, but what am I supposed to do? I’m bad at sleeping. Sleep is important, obviously for feeling rested and awake during the day, but also […]