Marc Arginteanu's Blog, page 17

Your brain on nuts

Quick! Without peeking, which do you like better, almonds or walnuts.

Nephilim: a novel

Denny is a PhD student whose side hustle takes on a life of its own when his machine merges with a twenty-something waiter named Sean.

Cameo

Kristine Frazao, host of Spotlight on America, reported on the harm social media may cause to the teenage brain and what 41 Attorneys General are doing about it. Click on the video, you���ll find a cameo of your favorite n...

New Interview

There are 4 major types of errors I encountered while training the next generation of neurosurgeons. Which mistakes could be forgiven? Which mistakes resulted in firing? How can that knowledge help you in your work and p...

Bad Batch of Botox

Between November of 2023 and March of 2024, more than twenty people were poisoned by what the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is calling counterfeit or mishandled Botulinum Toxin injections.

Bullet to the Brain: a Felix Hoenniker Medical Murder Mystery

Bullet to the Brain cracked the top 10 on Amazon���s list of medical thrillers

Pre-teen brains on Social Media

I was honored to have been interviewed by Mark Harbinger, Founder and Executive Director of the Hug Morenz Foundation for Media Literacy. If you'd like to learn more about their mission, check out https://www.hugmorenzfo...

There���s a fungus among us��� Eat it.

Mushrooms are good for your brain.

Multi-Sensory pathway creates a more resilient memory

Looking for a brain hack to memorize a boat-load of stuff in a jiffy? Recruiting multiple senses (vision, hearing, touch) may carve an indelible pathway through the hippocampus. It can work just as well whether you���ve go...

Long COVID and your brain

The effect of virus and vaccines