ABOUT

In 2017, us five Neuroscience students from Puerto Rico met each other after receiving funding for our research projects. Currently, we all work in laboratories that apply Neuropharmacology to enhance our understanding of the human mind. The field of Neuropharmacology zooms in on how drugs affect the brain. These drug-dazed neural mechanisms then affect our behavior. Some of us study the effects of anxiolytics on cocaine addiction. Others use mutant flies to study how alcohol alters the activation of genes involved in the emergence of tolerance and brain plasticity.

At first, we were strangers sharing a common patronage in the sciences. Soon enough, we all became friends sharing much more. Conversations about practical methods and laboratory techniques quickly turned into philosophical debates regarding technology and free will, drugs and consciousness, creativity and psychiatric diagnoses, among others. Between chemical concoctions, behavioral tests and long hours of work, we found breaks to discuss trivial bursts of inspiration that combined our collective passion for science and art, history, psychology and philosophy. Coffee breaks developed into hangouts with beers and music. Hangouts became creative hubs for brainstorming science outreach concepts. Finally, our proposed plans turned into meetings and schedules, objectives and goals.

Biology is the tool that allows us to consolidate our interests into one space that we can share with others alike. High Science is a cyber publication interested in exposing the 'real-biology' of marijuana's action in the brain through contemporary insights into current research studies and cultural trends. We bring the facts and open up a kaleidoscopic range of possibilities and educated stand-points.

"Welcome to the space where time is today and tomorrow, and the flowers of the mind soar across our interior and microscopic universes. If we deny organic mechanisms of atoms and chemicals, the synthetic truth rules over. Stars are no longer born."
- excerpt taken from poem by Staff Writer

Glad you're stepping inside,

The High Science Team