Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

Memory enhancement self-help programs abound and promise improved memory performance by the utilization of any number of seemingly unique techniques focused on the context of how information is encoded.

As a practicing neurologist, I place central importance in applying current science to the notion of disease prevention.

By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.

The real discovery of having your consciousness raised was never that you'd be handed tools; it was the discovery that the only real leverage you get in life is yourself.

This led to the discovery that long chain fatty acids would remarkably stabilize serum albumin to heat denaturation, and would even reverse the denaturation by heat or concentrated urea solutions.

I feel like science fiction is so much more mainstream now than it has been. And I feel like that's because technology has caught up with us.