This Is Your Brain

Neuroscience

Why We Should Teach Police to Think Like Brain Surgeons

Philip E. Stieg Ph.D., M.D. on December 9, 2021

Understanding the brain’s primal response to stress may help prevent deadly police–civilian encounters and help first responders to act more like…neurosurgeons.

Coronavirus Disease 2019

How Does an Airborne Virus Get Into the Brain?

Philip E. Stieg Ph.D., M.D. on April 23, 2021

Long-haul Covid symptoms are devastating to patients who just can’t shake the after-effects of the infection – even when the illness itself was mild.

Memory

How Gabby Giffords Used Music to Regain Her Speech

Philip E. Stieg Ph.D., M.D. on January 15, 2021

Song lyrics involve different parts of the brain than spoken words. Here's how a remarkable music therapist harnessed different areas of the brain to get her famous patient talking.

Coronavirus Disease 2019

The (Miami) Dolphin and the Coronavirus

Philip E. Stieg Ph.D., M.D. on July 13, 2020

What does a retired NFL player with dementia have in common with the 130,000 Americans who have died so far from the novel coronavirus?

Stress

2020 Is Making Us Old Before Our Time

Philip E. Stieg Ph.D., M.D. on June 12, 2020

The nonstop stress of the past few months are doing damage to our brains—and mimicking the characteristics of aging.