Mind Hacks and the Placebo Effect

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 7, 2008

In the ETech pan­el a few days ago, we dis­cussed some futur­is­tic and some emerg­ing ways in which we can “hack our minds”, most­ly from a tech­nol­o­gy point of view. Nei­ther myself nor the oth­er pan­elists thought of sug­gest­ing the most obvi­ous and inex­pen­sive method, proven in thou­sands of research stud­ies. The secret com­pound?: Belief. Also…

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Cognitive Neuroscience @ MIT OpenCourseWare

By Alvaro Fernandez | May 28, 2007 |

The great MIT Open­Course­Ware ini­tia­tive offers a lot of free mate­ri­als on Brain and Cog­ni­tive Sci­ences. You can browse lec­ture notes, read­ings, and more on a vari­ety of psy­chol­o­gy and neu­ro­science cours­es. “The human brain is the most com­plex, sophis­ti­cat­ed, and pow­er­ful infor­­ma­­tion-pro­cess­ing device known. To study its com­plex­i­ties, the Depart­ment of Brain and Cognitive…

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