Mary Martin

when the trauma label has been applied by outside mores – when an event like an explosion, an assault or a sexual event has taken place and our culture insists that it be traumatising. Sometimes this extraneous narrative resonates and provides a sense of relief, but in other instances disagreement and refusal of the label can lead to judgement from... See more

al­­though piquing interest can indeed drive an urgent desire for answers, it can also elicit more patience, setting people up for those moments of discovery.

The next time you’re driving home in a car or sitting down to enjoy a meal, spare some thought for the ways in which the neurochemical soup in your brain mimics your gut: helping you to digest complex patterns of information as you navigate the intricacies of your daily life.

Neuroscience now recognizes that the brain and the body are so intimately intertwined that they cannot be thought of separately.

Many of the predictions that structure human experience concern our own internal physiological states. For example, we experience thirst and hunger in ways that are deeply anticipatory, allowing us to remedy looming shortfalls in advance, so as to stay within the correct zone for bodily integrity and survival. This means that we exist in a world... See more

If my hypothesis is right then consciousness exists in a broader quantum field-based system and biological death is only a transition point that we could potentially interrupt on a quantum level and transfer consciousness. Consciousness may not die in a classical sense but could exist in a temporally distributed state, hinting at the possibility of... See more

we now have growing reasons to suspect that agency is a genuine natural phenomenon. Biology could stop being so coy about it if only we had a proper theory of how it arises. Unfortunately, no such thing currently exists, but there’s increasing optimism that a theory of agency can be found – and, moreover, that it’s not necessarily unique to living... See more

What we do know is that the brain is emerging, in study after study, as one of climate change’s most vulnerable landscapes.