Why Do We Sometimes Feel Like We’ve Lived a Moment Before? (Déjà vu)
Déjà vu is a brief, eerie sense of having lived a moment before. Here is what memory research and brain recordings suggest is going on.
NeuroGlow
Where neuroscience meets self care
NeuroGlow is a small publication about where neuroscience meets mental health. Each article takes an everyday experience, such as a memory that will not fade or a mind that will not switch off, and explains what the brain is doing. Understanding your mind is a good first step toward looking after it.
More recent articles
Why Do Some People Forgive Easily While Others Can’t?
Some people let go of a hurt quickly while others hold on for years. What psychology and brain research suggest shapes the ability to forgive.
What Constant Notifications Do to Your Brain
A buzz, a ping, a banner. What experiments show about how notifications pull at attention, how big the effects are, and what is still unknown.
Why We Get Mental Blocks During Exams
You studied, then went blank in the exam hall. How stress hormones and anxious thoughts can interfere with recall, and what the evidence says about fixes.
Why Time Feels Faster as You Get Older
Does time really speed up with age? What studies of the past decade, everyday moments and memory show, and which explanations still compete.
The Organized Mind: How Structure and Maintenance Keep You Neurologically Healthy
A deep dive into the neuroscience of order, habit, and mental clarity.
The Neuroscience of First Impressions
How the brain forms judgments about strangers from a glimpse of a face, why those judgments are fast and widely shared, and why fast does not mean accurate.
Topics
- Memory
How the brain stores, replays and sometimes rewrites what we remember.
- Emotions & Relationships
What happens in the brain when we bond, miss, forgive and get hurt.
- Digital Life
How screens, feeds and notifications shape attention and the developing brain.
- Thinking & Learning
The science of habits, overthinking, exam stress and how we reason.
- Perception
Why first impressions, music and time itself feel the way they do.
- Mind & Body
How brain health and the body influence each other.
Who writes NeuroGlow
NeuroGlow is written by Dhriti Chhabra, a 12th grade student from India with a deep fascination with the neurological and medical fields. Read more about the project.