Neuroscience & Society Archive

A five-year, $27 million NIH renewal grant funds MESA-MIND, a multi-ethnic study examining how cardiovascular and vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Wake Forest University partners with Speas Elementary in Winston-Salem for the Theatre in Education program, where Wake Forest students use movement and performance to teach second graders core science standards.

Psychology professor Anthony Sali explains how the brain doesn’t truly multitask — it switches between tasks — and why that rapid switching carries cognitive costs that vary with learning, anxiety, and context.

A Wake Forest study of 4,753 first-year students found extroverts and agreeable students felt stronger campus belonging, while emotionally unstable students struggled — with important implications for how colleges design first-year programming.

Research shows lying is rarer than assumed — most people tell few lies daily, with half of all lies coming from just 5% of participants — and surprisingly, email produces fewer lies than face-to-face or video chat.

Wake Forest psychology professor Eranda Jayawickreme argues that intellectual humility alone isn’t enough for good thinking — curiosity, open-mindedness, carefulness, and a genuine love of knowledge are equally essential traits to cultivate.

A Wake Forest study co-authored by undergraduates found that older adults who processed COVID-19 experiences through redemptive thinking — finding silver linings — reported significantly higher wellbeing than those who did not.

“Zozobra” — a Mexican philosophical concept describing the anxiety of being unable to settle into a single worldview — offers a framework for understanding the disorientation many Americans feel amid political upheaval, pandemic, and social fragmentation.

Wake Forest sensory neuroscientists found that wolf spiders react strongly to allyl isothiocyanate — the compound in mustard and wasabi — by grooming frantically and dropping prey, suggesting spiders share TRP chemical-detection channels with mammals.