Exam season is looming and stress levels are rising! Although a familiar feeling, and common, have you ever considered the biological factors associated with why we feel a certain way when stressed? Most of us know when we get stressed, our brains release a ‘cocktail’ of neurotransmitters which in turn signal our sympathetic system to […]
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If you haven’t heard, the Brain-Based team are doing Mind’s 27 27 challenge this month, where we attempt to run/walk 27 miles in 27 days, to raise awareness about student mental health. Research has found that the first lockdown saw more people reporting mental health disorders in the UK, however, mental health began to recover […]
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If you or someone you know has been pregnant or are pregnant, you might have come across people saying “you should not be drinking coffee whilst pregnant”. However, as an avid coffee drinking population, cutting out a daily staple is difficult. For which reason, experts in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) have […]
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Have you ever tried meditating and found it difficult to focus? Or wondered why your attention just slips in class, or why you keep thinking about a particular topic repeatedly? Well, new research led by UC Berkeley has come up with a way to track the flow of our internal thought processes and signal whether […]
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As the end of the year approaches, many of us are probably making mental checklists of things we would like to accomplish for next year. If reading is on your list, then why not add some neuroscience-related books to that list. Here are my 3 top picks, in no particular order: 1. The Reason I […]
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