Sublime

Melanie Boly, a neurologist and neuroscientist at the Medical School of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is painstakingly collecting EEG data from long-term Buddhist meditators during a state known as pure presence, an experience with no self, no discursive thoughts, and no perceptual content except for a luminous expanse, an empty mirror. Att

prolactin has been shown to rebuild myelin, the protective sheath that insulates neurons and makes your brain work faster.

Who among us does not know at least one female loved-one who lost her instincts to make good choices for herself, and was forced therefore to live a marginal life or worse? Perhaps you yourself are that woman. One of the

The female brain has the amazing capacity to identify and categorize sounds, as well as make judgments about what those sounds mean. A woman can have a conversation with one person while monitoring another conversation nearby. Women hear the voices of babies and crying kittens much more easily than men do, and from farther away.