Learning & Memory
March 2, 2021
Don’t want to retire? Here’s how to maintain a fulfilling career into your 80s and beyond.
Eric Kandel, MD, interviewed about his career.
Learning & Memory
February 25, 2021
The Legacy of Trauma: Can Experiences Leave A Biological Imprint?
Bianca Jones Marlin talks to NPR Shortwave about epigenetics and its potential implications in trauma inheritance
Learning & Memory
November 20, 2020
Is Your Brain Goofing Off?
Pop culture suggests humans use only a fraction of their mental capacity—scientists disagree.
Tools & Technology
October 6, 2020
It Takes a Special Microscope to Fight Alzheimer’s
A supersensitive new instrument is helping Columbia scientists study the intricacies of neurodegenerative disease.
Growth & Development
October 2, 2020
Breakthrough: The Trauma Tracer
Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD is featured in Science Friday Breakthrough, a short film anthology from Science Friday and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) that follows women working at the forefront of their fields.
Decision Making
August 5, 2020
Evocations of abstract art
Psychology researchers have teamed up with art theorists to quantify how abstract art evokes different cognitive states to figurative or literally representative art.
Decision Making
August 3, 2020
One Type of Art Can Help You See the Bigger Picture in Life
"Something as fluid as enjoying art has demonstrable and measurable effects on how our mind works."
Decision Making
May 27, 2020
Why Small Decisions Feel So Difficult: Dr. Sanjay Gupta's Coronavirus Podcast
Why does choosing what to eat for dinner or what to watch on TV suddenly feel impossible? CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and neuroscientist Daphna Shohamy explain that we may need to look inside the human brain for the answers.
Decision Making
May 14, 2020
How to Find Your Flow Working From Home, Even if You’re Surrounded by a Spouse, Kids and Worries
Bianca Jones Marlin, PhD, offers some advice for training the brain to work from home.
Learning & Memory
May 13, 2020
Unexpected Brain Strategy Links Two Events Separated by Time
A study in mice led by Attila Losonczy, MD, PhD, and Stefano Fusi, PhD, does not find evidence supporting two popular ideas for how the brain bridges temporal time gaps.
