All Categories - OPTIMISED LIFE: International provider of professional counselling, coaching, consulting & training
February 21, 2026
Circadian rhythms are intrinsic ~24-hour biological cycles that coordinate sleep–wake patterns,...
February 20, 2026
In 1953, while working in the sleep laboratory of Nathaniel Kleitman at the University of Chicago...
February 19, 2026
Neurogenesis is the remarkable process by which the adult brain generates new neurons. It stands...
February 18, 2026
In a series of groundbreaking experiments during the 1980s and 1990s, neuroscientist Michael M....
February 17, 2026
In their landmark 1957 paper, William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner described the famous...
February 16, 2026
In 1973, neuroscientists Timothy V. P. Bliss and Terje Lømo published a landmark paper...
February 15, 2026
In 1949, Canadian psychologist Donald O. Hebb published The Organization of Behavior: A...
February 14, 2026
In his landmark synthesis, Joseph LeDoux (1996) articulated a neurobiological account of fear...
February 13, 2026
The Two-Factor Theory of Emotion, proposed by Stanley Schachter and Jerome E. Singer in 1962,...
February 12, 2026
The Cannon–Bard Theory of emotion, developed by American physiologist Walter B. Cannon and later...
February 11, 2026
The James–Lange Theory of emotion, developed independently by American philosopher-psychologist...
February 10, 2026
The hypothalamus sits at the crossroads of body and behaviour, integrating neural, hormonal, and...
February 9, 2026
In their landmark 1954 experiment, psychologists James Olds and Peter Milner accidentally...
In the early 1980s, neuroscientist Ariane L. Georgopoulos and colleagues such as John F. Kalaska,...
February 7, 2026
Between the late 1930s and the 1950s, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield (1891–1976), working at the...
February 6, 2026
Research on feature detectors and critical periods in physiological psychology showed how...
February 5, 2026
Between 1959 and 1962, neurophysiologists David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel revolutionised...
February 4, 2026
In the early days of split-brain research, the anatomy of the corpus callosum, the wide band of...
February 3, 2026
Between 1929 and 1950, neuropsychologist Karl S. Lashley pursued one of the boldest questions in...
February 2, 2026
In 1848, railroad foreman Phineas Gage survived a catastrophic accident in which a tamping iron...
