Articles by Jon Lieff MD

The Plant "Brain" 3: Defense, Avoiding Predators, Attracting Insects, Timed Gene Synthesis

Human Brain and Mind 3: the Limits of the Senses, Top Down Control of Perception

The Plant “Brain” 2: Communication among Plants and with Other Species

The Plant “Brain”: The Dodder Attacks

Human Brain and Mind 2: More Neuroplasticity

The Microbe “Brain” – Sensory, Neuronal, Attributes of Microbes

What is the Mind? 5 Theoretical Possibilities

Human Brain and Mind

Social Microbes

Complex Machinery in the Neuron, Vesicle Budding and Fusion, Transcription, and More

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Marijuana's Impact On Working Memory Revealed In Brain Scans

A new study examined the effects of marijuana use of 1,003 adults aged 22 to 36 from the Human Connectome Project collected between August 2012 and 2015 and found that 63% of heavy lifetime cannabis…

More Evidence That Emotional Expressions Are Universal

Are smiles, scowls, or sympathetic sighs universal across cultures? Studies from Namibia to Bhutan have attempted to find out, but the findings have been too inconsistent to take seriously.

The CAPSTONE Mission Launches A New Era In The Colonization Of The Moon

Beekeepers Are Wrong About Overwinter Hive Behavior

Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.