The Neurobiology of Empathy and Compassion
Among the many capacities that have allowed humans to flourish as a social species, empathy and com ...
How Sleep Affects Synaptic Plasticity and Memory: The Brain’s Nocturnal Symphony
Synaptic Plasticity: The Architecture of Learning Every thought, every skill, every fragment of ...
The Neural Basis of Moral Decision-Making: The Architecture of Human Conscience
In the silent corridors of the human brain, morality is not written in commandments nor etched in s ...
Beyond the Five: The Expanding Science of Human Senses
For centuries, human perception was neatly summarized as five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, ...
There Was a Time When Philosophy Was Alive
There was a time when philosophy was alive. Not alive in the sterile sense of textbooks, nor in the ...
The Evolution of Feminist Thought: From Suffrage to Intersectionality
Feminism, at its core, is a movement for the recognition and protection of women’s rights and equal ...
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