Your brain on silence
MAAC is all about sound and music. But what about their opposite: silence? Silence is a huge variable and intrinsic component of any...
Silent Synapses and Brain Plasticity
In Chapter 10 we talk about the remarkable plasticity of the human brain, having twice as many neurons (86 billion!) as a chimpanzee....
A 7,000-Year-Old Structure
Archaeologists have discovered a 180' diameter roundel, dating to 4900 B.C.E. in the Czech Republic, possibly more evidence of the...
Brain-zapping improves memory
New research, published in Nature and reported by NBC news and the Wall Street Journal, shows memory improvement in senior citizens when...