The Science of Convincingness

Pictures of the brain for the win?

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health themed newsletter. I’ve been at the Neuromodec conference in NYC this week. It is a neuromodulation conference that leans in heavily to research on the brain. There are a lot of slides, and a lot of posters.

Scientists do us all a great service when they detangle the maze of the brain to provide us with accessible answers that can relieve suffering. However, there is a theme I noticed.

This is science:

Photo 1:

It is about a modality that might improve memory (HD-tACS). Now, compare that science to this…Photo 2: