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by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published July 23, 2016 · Last modified July 21, 2018
This is part two of our four-part introduction to neuroscience series. For a review of the foundational concepts in neuroscience, please see our previous article. We have included a review of the anatomical terms...
Articles / Biology / Neuroscience / Neuroscience of Mindfulness
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published July 16, 2016 · Last modified January 12, 2018
The following article is part one of our four-part introduction to neuroscience series. The articles will be released separately, but together will seek to produce a coherent story of the brain. We will begin...
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published July 3, 2016 · Last modified January 12, 2018
On May 27, 2016 the National Toxicology Program (NTP), a research arm of the Department of Health and Human Services, published a report of partial findings from their cell phone carcinogenesis studies.1 The information...
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published June 27, 2016 · Last modified January 11, 2018
After 5 years of abstinence, a recovering alcoholic has approximately the same chances of lifetime relapse as a randomly selected member of the general US population has of experiencing alcoholism in the coming year....
Around 75,000 people in the United States die every year as a result of diabetes,1 while about 85,000 deaths per year are directly related to alcohol use.2 Researchers estimated that the annual cost burden...
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published June 19, 2016 · Last modified January 11, 2018
Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines personality as, “the set of emotional qualities, ways of behaving, etc., that makes a person different from other people.” As a social species, early humans relied on the ability to accurately...
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published June 16, 2016 · Last modified January 11, 2018
Yearly household pre-tax income seems to predict happiness until about $83,000 (circa 2016), at which point higher tax brackets cease to predict greater happiness levels. In a now famous study, Drs. Kahneman and Deaton...
Articles / Neuroscience of Mindfulness
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published January 10, 2016 · Last modified September 11, 2016
Let’s imagine that you were to give up sugary sweets for a month like I recently did as part of a requirement for a nutrition class. The first few days might be relatively easy...
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published September 26, 2015 · Last modified June 17, 2017
Siddhartha Gautama, or simply the Buddha as he would later be known, lived in eastern India somewhere around 400 BCE. The Buddha, meaning, “awakened one,” spoke of a Middle Way, or halfway point, between...
Articles / Neuroscience of Mindfulness
by Matthew MacKinnon, MD · Published June 27, 2015 · Last modified October 10, 2015
Take a slow, deep breath. “I am large, I contain multitudes.” ~ Walt Whitman The physiological mechanisms that make up a single breath could fill an entire book. And yet, for an event that...
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