The Neuromythography Institute

The home of neuromythography

Neuroscientists Doing Neuromythography

Neuroscientists learn about the Drosophila fruit fly neuron classes Foxglove, Bluebell, and Brake

Inner Child

the inner child is regarded as a subconscious personality consisting of your younger self's learned behaviors and experiences.

Archetypes Psychology

Arion was typically described as the offspring of Poseidon and Demeter, two of the most important Greek gods; he was born after they laid together in the form of horses. Given his impressive pedigree, Arion was no ordinary horse.

Archetypes Greek

Eunomia

Eunomia (Greek: Εὐνομία) was a minor Greek goddess of law and legislation, as well as the spring-time goddess of green pastures (eû means "well, good" in Greek, and νόμος, nómos, means "law", while pasturelands are called nomia).

Archetypes Greek

Hou Yi

In Chinese mythology, Hou Yi (后羿) is considered to be the greatest archer of all time shooting down nine of the ten suns. Once an immortal who lived in the Jade Emperor’s palace, Hou Yi made the decision to become human in order to help humanity in times of need.

Archetypes Chinese

Erysichthon

Erysichthon was a king whose addictive behaviors resulted in him eating himself in hunger.

Archetypes Greek

Jiminy Cricket

Jiminy Cricket is a Disney creation for the 'moral cricket' in Carlo Colladi's tale of Pinocchio who served as a conscience for the lying wooden puppet. Holding oneself pure.

Archetypes Literary Characters

Adonis

Adonis was a beautiful Greek man who fell in love with himself. OFC is a part of the Orbito Frontal Cortex that appreciates beauty in all its forms

Archetypes Greek

Hegesias

Hegesias (Greek: Ἡγησίας; fl. 290 BC[1]) of Cyrene was a Cyrenaic philosopher, the Cyrenaics forming one of the earliest Socratic schools of philosophy. He argued that happiness is impossible to achieve, and that the goal of life was the avoidance of pain and sorrow.

Archetypes Greek

Comus

13l is associated with festivities, revelry. Comus was a Greek god of festivities, revels, and nocturnal dalliances.

Archetypes

Fides

Fides was the Roman goddess of trust and bona fides (good faith) in Roman paganism. She was one of the original virtues to be considered an actual religious divinity.

Archetypes Roman

Falcon

Falcon is known for smooth eye movement tracking movement of prey while pursuing at close to 250 mph, canceling out self-motion. MST is responsible for the integration and analysis of global, visual motion and the perception of self-motion.

Archetypes Animal totems

Henri Rousseau

Famous for his "primitive" style with jungle motifs and pops of color that attract the eye. the V4t area demonstrates a high level of activity in response to both motion and shape-sensitive information, indicating its significance in the integration of object processing and global-motion perception.

Archetypes Artist

Keith Haring

Haring's stick figure and relatively "simple" figures draw clear delineation of boundaries. Orientation of boundary is of particular concern to the Lo1 area.

Archetypes Artist

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol famous for high contrast work both in color use and in topic of painting subjects.

Archetypes Artist

Georges Suerat

Suerat painter of Pointillism, also called divisionism and chromo-luminarism, in painting, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of colour to a surface so that from a distance they visually blend together.

Archetypes Artist

Mark Rothko

Rothko famous for his minimalist are with lines and blocks of color- that although some decry it not as art, appeals to many people throughout the world. the V6 area is a portion of the eye that prefers long uninterrupted lines. Black-and-white thinking, dividing into high-contrast blocks.

Archetypes Artist

Edward Hopper

Hopper painter of iconic places. VMV2 about use of color, texture hue toward recognition of places.

Archetypes Artist

Arachne

Arachne was a weaver who acquired such skill in her art that she ventured to challenge Athena, goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason.

Archetypes Greek

Dipsas

Dispsas was a Greek serpent whose bite caused intense thirst.

Archetypes Greek

Giraffe

The tallest land mammal, with a neck as long as 6 feet, the giraffe is also well known for the unique brown and white pattern on its coat (“pelage”) and its lengthy eyelashes and legs.

Archetypes Animal totems

Hel

Hel (meaning Hidden) was one of the children of the trickster god Loki, and her kingdom was said to lie downward and northward. Hel is generally presented as being rather greedy, harsh, and cruel, or at least indifferent to the concerns of both the living and the dead.

Archetypes Norse

Atum

Atum created the god Shu and goddess Tefnut by spitting them out of his mouth. Atum did so through masturbation, with the hand he used in this act representing the female principle inherent within him. Other interpretations state that he has made union with his shadow

Archetypes Egyptian