Month: June 2023

Reduce Anxiety by Resetting Your Vagus Nerve

Think of your vagus nerve as the conductor of a soothing symphony in your body. This crucial nerve connects your brain to various organs and plays a key role in calming you down after experiencing stress. By stimulating the vagus nerve, you can go from feeling like a built-up pressure cooker to a relaxed meadow […]

Published on June 12, 2023

Why Stress Rewires Our Brain’s Food Cravings

Imagine your brain as a radio station desperately trying to tune into relaxation, but stress is causing interference and distorts the signal. That’s what happens in our brains when we’re under stress, according to a recent study from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia. This interference affects the part of our brain that […]

Published on June 12, 2023

Connectomes: from a sparsity of networks to large-scale databases

Imagine you’re a detective trying to solve a mystery, but all you have is a few scattered clues. That’s how scientists felt in the 1980s when they first started studying connectomes – maps of the brain’s connections. Back then, only a small number of connectomes were available, and information about the human connectome was completely […]

Published on June 12, 2023