By Sababa Anber

Do you ever feel that you cannot distinguish between dreams and reality? For those living with narcolepsy, the line between wakefulness and sleepiness is so blurry that one can look like they […]

By Roxana Alvarez

Have you ever woken up not knowing where you are or who the people around you are? Lydia Velez-Herrera has. On Thursday during common hour, November 9th 2017, students and faculty were given […]

Molly Fitzgibbon

Upon entering high school and signing up for a fall sport it was a requirement for all athletes to take the ImPACT test. It seemed very unimportant to me at the time and something I just wanted […]

Emma England

One of the biggest questions in neuroscience stems from the question: what is perception? How do we know what we are seeing in the world is the same as what someone else is seeing? For example, the […]

Anna Hackett

We all know the feeling, absolutely craving that gooey chocolate cake, that cheesy pizza, or that crisp salad even. You also probably know the feeling of seeing an advertisement for a restaurant […]

Prospective memory is the ability to “remember to remember.”  In other words, it is the ability to complete tasks in the future, such as taking your medications, or buying something you need at the store.

This […]

Thomas Hum-Hyder

On Thursday March 3rd, Prof. Dan Lloyd, the Brownell Professor of Philosophy presented the idea that everything in the brain is “as music,” contrasting the playful expression “brain on music […]

Julianna Maisano

On Tuesday, February 16th, Trinity College held a “Concussion Awareness Day”, a day with a purpose to inform students not only about concussions, but the severe consequences one can endure in […]

Khaoula Ben Haj Frej

Despite all of the attention towards concussions and preventing them, athletes continue to experience blunt trauma to the head and return to the game, particularly in football, hockey, and […]

Jonah Meltzer

The talk given by Dr. DiFiori was both eye opening, with regards to the research and techniques being used in modern sports medicine, and informative in terms of how these techniques are actively […]

Georgia Mergner

Dr. DiFiori presented to us a series of studies regarding repetitive mild traumatic brain injury in mice animal models and the presence of proteins released from sheared microtubules such as tau […]

Alex Bednarek

I thought the presentation by Dr. DiFiori on Concussion Awareness Day was very informative. Although he did not get to give us his full presentation, he focused on an extremely important aspect of […]

Julianne Maisano

On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 Dr. John P. DiFiori, Chief of the Division of Sports Medicine at UCLA, held a lecture entitled, “The Vulnerable Window in Concussion: A Challenge in Determining R […]

Thomas Hum-Hyder

Last week, Dr. John DiFiori, the head physician of the University of California at Los Angeles’s Bruins football team came to Trinity to speak of his work with athletes with concussions and b […]

Morgan Williams

John DiFiori, Professor at UCLA and Head Team Physician of their Department of Intercollegiate Athletics gave a challenging glimpse into the world of sports-related concussions. One profound […]

Why Neuroscience?

Amina Kureshi

12/16/2015

Before I had started at college, I knew which major I was going to be, a neuroscience major. I knew that I wanted to study the sciences, but after I had […]

Julianna Maisano

10 December 2015
Ana Radonjić: Research Study Presentation on Color Constancy
On Thursday, December 10, 2015 Dr. Ana Radonjić, a Research Associate at the University of Pennsylvania d […]

Tommy Hum-Hyder
Prof. Raskin
Neuroscience Across the Curriculum
November 23, 2015

Perception of Space

On November 23, 2015, Carly Leonard, PhD, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California […]

Andrew Hatch
Prof. Raskin
Neuroscience Across the Curriculum
29 November 2015
Lecturer in Perception
What I took away was I am even more oblivious that I previous thought myself to be. More seriously, I was […]