When I first started work on my doctoral degree, a project skirting the lines of neuroscience and molecular genetics, I had a mild idea of what I wanted from the science I was about to pursue and what I was…

In the ever-quickening pace of modern life, stress is an ever-present factor. Stress is one of the most important risk factors for mental and physical health in developed countries, increasing the incidence of mental illness and mortality. Two thirds of…

There’s no doubt that our lives are constantly filled with decisions. Whether it’s figuring out what to have for breakfast, which route to take to work, or what to watch on Netflix for the evening, we always need to make…

…with important implications for AI The mind tries to understand the world in terms of concepts, most of which are dressed in language and in some cases, in mathematics. But our conceptual understanding of the world suffers from a chicken-and-egg…

…and their connections to Neuroscience, AI and Russian Poetry “My dreams, my dreams! What has become of their sweetness? What indeed has become of my youth?”― Alexander Pushkin, Eugene Onegin It might seem strange to start an article on Markov…