Samadhi Wijethunga

Behavioral Neuroscience // Class of 2025

The magic behind misinformation

Social media’s individualized, instant, and streamlined communication provides users with up-to-date information on world events, community opinions, and trending memes. However, with the uptick in AI-generated content and extremist views, social media can be incredibly deceptive, with the gap between fact and fiction looming larger and larger. Most recently, the New York Times reported that […]

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Riches to rags: How the Buddha’s journey to enlightenment reimagined neurotherapeutics

The accumulation of years, cognitive and physical decline, and reckoning with death’s inevitability drew the spoon-fed prince Siddhartha Gautama away from a life of copious riches and political popularity. While embarking outside his palace, the sight of a humble ascetic inspired a quest to understand the universal experience of suffering, or in other words, life.

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