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Category Archives: Joanna Schaffhausen

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The Pleasure Principle: Connections between Reward and Learning

Joanna Schaffhausen, Motivation & EmotionBy Joanna SchaffhausenAugust 1, 2020

For centuries, scientists and philosophers alike have tried to understand why human beings consistently make choices that are not in our best interests. For example, the serious health risks from smoking are well known, but that does not stop millions of Americans from indulging in cigarettes every day. Why? The obvious answer is that engaging…

Child Prodigies

Child Development, Joanna SchaffhausenBy Joanna SchaffhausenJune 1, 2020

Recently there was a clever series of commercials that featured celebrities like Larry Bird and Aretha Franklin showing off their respective talents, and the announcer urged us to do the same. “Are you a prodigy?” he wanted to know. Sadly, for most of us the answer is no. Our abilities are too ordinary. The term…

The Day His World Stood Still: The Strange Story of “H.M.”

Joanna Schaffhausen, Learning & MemoryBy Joanna SchaffhausenJanuary 25, 2019

When twenty-seven year old Henry M. entered the hospital in 1953 for radical brain surgery that was supposed to cure his epilepsy, he was hopeful that the procedure would change his life for the better. Instead, it trapped him in a mental time warp where TV is always a new invention and Truman is forever…

Is It Just Me, Or Is It Scary In Here? An Insider’s View On Anxiety Disorders

Joanna Schaffhausen, Mood DisordersBy Joanna SchaffhausenMay 3, 2018

Fear is normally a healthy emotion that helps keep us from danger, but for some people it becomes an unmanageable force that consumes their every waking hour. I know because it happened to me when I was fourteen and suffered my first panic attack in Madame Andreassion’s third period French class. It was terrifying because…

Embryological Development

Child Development, Early Reading Skills, Joanna SchaffhausenBy Joanna SchaffhausenDecember 3, 2017

In the Beginning All human beings begin life as a fertilized egg, called a zygote, which is a single cell about one-fifth the size of the period at the end of this sentence. By adulthood, the human body has grown to more than a hundred trillion cells, most of which are highly specialized for particular…

Gone But Not Forgotten? The Mystery Behind Infant Memories

Joanna Schaffhausen, Learning & MemoryBy Joanna SchaffhausenApril 22, 20132 Comments

What is your earliest memory? A frightening fall down the stairs? Blowing out candles on your third birthday? Or perhaps it is a trip to the hospital to visit a newborn sibling? Whatever the content, it is probably short and rather hazy. Adult recollections of infancy and early childhood are typically fragmentary. We forget so…

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