To double down in December, I thought I would give an easy read on my experience of graduate school so far and what I didn't know going...

After a hiatus, I have returned to writing as I realized how important accurate science communication can be in the hands of the public....

What comes to your mind when you hear "Electro-Convulsive Therapy"? Do you directly think about electro-shock and remember a movie scene?...

Pharmacological interventions for psychiatric and neurological conditions often target neurotransmitters including dopamine,...

Research has used a wide range of techniques to understand the role of specific brain regions. The one that has provided the most...

Image by Pixabay Cannabis has been used in medicine dated back as long ago as 2900 BC (1). This has to do with your endocannabinoid...

The COVID-19 pandemic has vastly consumed our news channels, daily conversations, government policies, and hygiene practices for the past...

We talked about music therapy in various contexts. To close our music series and start a new series on “pain,” we thought talking about...

We are exposed to several important social and learning environments throughout development such as school, daycare, extracurricular...

Many people use music as a form of therapy. It makes us glow when we're happy and it helps us heal when we're blue. Over the past 20-25...

Drug addiction is a worldwide epidemic, with the number of drug overdose deaths increasing by nearly 5% from 2018 to 2019 and has...

I never met someone who says they don’t like music. Music is accepted as a universal language, enjoyed by all cultures. Yet, despite...

We talked about various aspects of ageing and its impacts on the brain. It is scary to get old and lose some of the capabilities that we...

In my previous post, I briefly mentioned the theories behind what is happening to our brain that causes normal memory impairments and...

In the past half a century, the improvements in medicine caused a huge increase in life expectancy. With longer lives, we started to see...

One of the most intrinsic components of aging is hearing loss. Over time, damage to your ears results in the loss of inner ear hair cells...

The notion that moderate amounts of alcohol can provide health benefits swept the nation, with headlines shouting, “Red Wines ‘Magical’...

The average life expectancy for a Canadian in 2022 is 82.81 years old, which is a stark increase from 71.2 years old, 50 years ago (1)....

Throughout this series of posts, we have discussed the history of psychedelic research, the neuropharmacology of psychedelics, and the...

In 1960s Harvard University housed a very noteworthy entity. It is not possible to talk about the history of psychedelic research without...