BrainStorm Finalist Archives

Zulkayda Mamat – BrainStorm finalist 2021

“Searching for superforgetters: characterizing people with highly superior autobiographical forgetting” Mamat plans to pioneer the brain mapping of how the brain suppresses negative memories. Forgetting is not the same as a failure to remember. There are...

Vera Ludwig, PhD – BrainStorm finalist 2021

“Effectiveness and physiological mechanisms of contemplative dyad meditation to increase social connection in young adults in the aftermath of the pandemic” Loneliness is a recognized risk factor for depression and other illnesses. Ludwig explores how...

Talking in Your Sleep: Communications from Inside a Dream

Mind Science-funded research on two-way communication with lucid dreamers has produced groundbreaking results as Ken Paller, PhD (Northwestern University) and graduate student Karen Konkoly have for the first time established two-way communication with someone in a...

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