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Adam Green, a Georgetown psychology professor, conducted a study that found that tDCS to the left frontal lobe can increase creativity in participants.

Professors Find Electrical Brain Stimulation Enhances Creativity

By Lisa Burgoa April 22, 2016

Electrical stimulation to the front of the brain’s left hemisphere may spark an increased capacity for creative thinking, according to new findings by Georgetown researchers Adam Green and Peter...

Professor Creates PTSD Pilot

By Maddy Moore January 23, 2015

Georgetown University Associate Professor Jennifer Woolard will work on a three-year pilot program titled Project Cohort, which was created in a partnership between Project Rebirth, Georgetown University,...

CHENTSOVA DUTTON: A Close Consideration Of Cultural Intricacies

CHENTSOVA DUTTON: A Close Consideration Of Cultural Intricacies

By Yulia Chentsova Dutton April 15, 2014

Pick a word — any word. Read it aloud 30 times. Many of you will notice that the word gradually loses meaning and starts to look strange. This phenomenon, known as semantic satiation, temporarily disrupts...

SABAT: Realization of Doubt Shows Real Strength

By Steven R. Sabat April 1, 2014

This is a literary pentimento. In my untutored understanding, pentimento is an underlying image in a painting, a kind of original draft that is found underneath a top layer that is, itself, another painting....

Movie Review: ‘The Bag Man’

By Flor Lee March 7, 2014

2/5 stars Did curiosity really kill the cat? This is the central question that guides the premise of the noir film “The Bag Man,” written and directed by David Grovic. "The Bag Man" is inspired...

LAMIELL: A Lost Philosophy Worth Remembering

By James T. Lamiell March 4, 2014

In May 1984, less than two full years after I joined the faculty in the psychology department here at Georgetown, I was privileged to participate in a symposium at the Second European Conference on Personality,...

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