What You Need to Know About Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, EMDR, and Other Therapeutic Methods for Your Mental Health
In Brief: Healing from deep-seated trauma requires more than just conversation; it requires a fundamental shift in how the brain
Neuroplasticity Theory
Hebbian Learning
Music, Language, and the Brain
In Music, Language, and the Brain, Aniruddh Patel synthesizes research from cognitive neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, and musicology to argue that music and language share deep, structured neural and cognitive mechanisms, while also highlighting important differences in how the brain processes each.
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This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of Human Obsession
Daniel Levitin explores the neuroscience and psychology of music, explaining how the brain perceives, processes, remembers, and emotionally responds to musical sound. The book synthesizes research across cognitive neuroscience, perception, and music theory to reveal why music is a universal human phenomenon and how it shapes our cognition and emotion.
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
In Musicophilia, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the complex relationship between music and the human brain, presenting case histories of patients whose neurological conditions reveal how deeply music is intertwined with memory, emotion, identity, and perception. He shows that music can both reveal unexpected neural capacities and reveal the brain’s neuroplasticity, especially in the face of injury or disease.
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Going No Contact: The Psychology of Family Estrangement and Self-Preservation
In Brief: While the holidays are often framed as a time for togetherness, for many, they represent a peak period
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The Efficiency of Erasure: Information Processing and the Cognitive Science of Forgetting
In Brief: We often treat forgetting as a flaw in our “biological hard drive,” but from a scientific perspective, it
Orchestrating the Brain: Neuroplasticity, Reward Systems, and the Cognitive Power of Music
In Brief: Music is more than an aesthetic experience; it is a profound cognitive tool. By engaging multiple brain regions