While the folks at the Human Genome Project steal the science headlines, UCLA’s Dr. John Mazziotta and a world-wide team of brain researchers go quietly about the business of creating a comprehensive map of the adult human brain. This group, the International Consortium for Brain Mapping, ICBM, believes the human brain map will reveal a…
Dr. John Ratey’s most recent book, A User’s Guide to the Brain, is one of the most accessible books available on recent brain research, what it means, and how to best make use of it. Ratey is professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the co-author of a number of books, including Shadow Syndromes,…
It is news to no one that men and women are different. We just are. Our bodies are obviously different; our behavior is different, and, as it turns out, our brains are different too. And if our brains are different, then we might even speculate that how we learn and think about new information might…
Everybody knows that fast food —an industry that does a swift business in North America—isn’t good for you. It’s dangerous for your heart and adds on unwanted pounds. Yet in spite of all the evidence of its detriment, the high-fat diet remains a firmly-rooted staple for Americans. In surveys conducted ten years ago, the average…
Like other peripheral courses of study, physical education has recently fallen prey in many school systems to the assessment juggernaut. Under pressure to improve test scores, some schools—particularly those strapped for cash—have had to throw their energy and resources into the sciences, math, and reading, leaving high and dry more “extra-curricular” subjects like the arts,…
Dr. James Catterall, professor at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education, says that his academic career has taken him down three main paths over the last few decades. The first was the examination of the economics of education, a pursuit that extended naturally from his undergraduate background in economics and from his graduate work at Stanford…
