Author: Meera
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OYNC Insights
A few weeks ago I attended the Oregon Youth Neuroscience Conference (OYNC), hosted in Portland with speakers from OHSU and other institutions. The morning…
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What Neurodivergent Minds Teach Us About Cognition
Up until the 1990s and early 2000s, one of the most common assumptions surrounding neurodiversity was that there was one “normal” way for the…
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The Myth of Pure Logic
A common idea that I’ve encountered numerous times in my life is that emotion and logic are opposites. In stressful situations, the ideal is…
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Why Immortal Brain Cells Aren’t A Good Idea
A few days ago my teacher brought up Henrietta Lacks during my science class. We discussed her cells (referred to as HeLa cells), which…
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A Recent Discovery Related to Brain Waves
I recently read about a theory championed by the MIT Picower Institute for Learning and Memory called Spatial Computing Theory. It offers an explanation as…
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