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How the brain actually works: memory, dopamine, emotion, creativity, and the systems underneath them.
The world's first mental performance partnership.
CONKA is now the official mental performance partner of Bristol Bears Rugby Club, the first partnership of its kind in world sport. See how data made it happen.
14 Oct 2026
How Leeds United Adopted CONKA's Data Analytics Tools
CONKA's brain health supplement is now used by Leeds United FC after a cold call, a one-month trial, and a 10.4% average improvement in player cognition. Here is how it happened.
14 Oct 2026
Nootropics in Professional Rugby: The Bristol Bears Story
CONKA becomes the official brain performance partner of Bristol Bears, the first nootropic supplement used in professional sport. Here is how it happened.
13 Oct 2026
Mental Performance Shot for Banking: The Revolut Trial
CONKA ran a 14-day mental performance trial with Revolut. Here is what happened when a brain health supplement met one of the world's most demanding sales floors. Read the full results.
12 Oct 2026
Harlequins CONKA Clinical Trial Results: What We Found
CONKA's double-blind placebo-controlled trial with Harlequins FC showed a 14.86% cognitive performance gain. Read the full results and the startup story behind them.
7 Oct 2026
Perimenopause Brain Fog: Why It Happens and What Helps
Perimenopause brain fog is real, not imagined. Here is why oestrogen decline disrupts cognition and which vitamins and supplements the clinical evidence actually supports.
6 Oct 2026
Brain Fog: What's Causing It and What the Evidence Says
Brain fog has real physiological causes. This guide breaks down the evidence on sleep debt, inflammation, hormones, and the best vitamins for brain fog.
5 Oct 2026
Cognitive Performance Under Pressure: What Athletes Miss
Most training plans ignore cognitive performance. Discover why attentional control and decision speed are the missing variables in elite sport, and what the evidence says.
Brain Fog in Perimenopause: Why It Happens and What Helps
Brain fog perimenopause is real, hormonal, and fixable. Discover the mechanisms driving it and the supplements with evidence behind them.
Brain Fog Causes: How Gut Inflammation Hijacks Your Focus
Brain fog causes go beyond sleep debt. Discover how gut inflammation and microbiome disruption translate into cognitive symptoms, and what the evidence says about fixing them.
Brain Health: What Actually Keeps Your Mind Sharp as You Age
Brain health declines earlier than most people think. Here is the neuroscience on what slows it down and which ingredients have the strongest evidence.
Brain Fog After 40: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
Brain fog after 40 has real hormonal and nutritional causes. Here is the evidence-based framework for identifying your trigger and recovering mental clarity fast.
Nootropics for PTSD Treatment: What the Science Says
Nootropics for PTSD treatment are backed by real neuroscience. Discover which natural supplements target the brain changes behind trauma, anxiety, and cognitive decline.
Nootropics for Meditation: What the Science Says
Nootropics for meditation target the same brain mechanisms that practice itself produces. See what the science says and which ingredients matter most.
1 Oct 2026
Supplements for Parkinson's Disease: What the Science Says
Parkinson's research points to several natural compounds that may protect dopamine neurons. Here is what the neuroscience supports and what to consider.
1 Oct 2026
Natural Nootropics for Depression: What the Science Says
Natural nootropics for depression go beyond serotonin. Discover the root causes, the clinical evidence, and the supplements that actually work for brain health.
29 Sept 2026
NASA's Genius Study: What It Means for Your Focus
NASA's 1960s genius study found 98% of kids were creative geniuses. By adulthood, just 2%. Here's what happened, and how to reverse it.
Every Tech Revolution Made Life Easier and Cost Us a Human Skill
Every technological revolution made life easier but took something from us. Here's how to protect your cognitive edge before AI takes that too.
How ChatGPT May Be Rewiring the Human Brain: What the Latest Research Reveals
MIT measured what happens in your brain when you write with ChatGPT. Here is what the EEG study found, and what it suggests about cognitive offloading.
4 Jul 2025
How can neurofeedback devices enhance brain activity?
Neurofeedback devices claim to train your brain waves. Here is how they actually work, what the evidence currently supports, and where the limits are.
12 Feb 2025
How the Brain Learns and Stores Information
Learning physically changes your brain. Here is how memories actually form and consolidate, and the retention strategies that follow from the neuroscience.
5 Jun 2024
What is ‘Dopamine Signalling’ and what can we learn from ADHD & Paranoid Schizophrenia (PSZ)?
Dopamine signalling drives motivation and reward. Here is how it works, and what ADHD and paranoid schizophrenia reveal when the system starts to misfire.
17 Jul 2023
The Social Brain
Humans are wired for connection. Here is how the brain processes social information, the regions and hormones involved, and what drives our behaviour.
10 Jul 2023
The Brain and Creativity
Creativity is not a gift, it is a brain state. Here is what happens neurologically when ideas form, and whether you can train yourself to have more of them.
3 Jul 2023
Decision Making
Every decision is a negotiation between brain regions. Here is how the brain weighs choices, the chemistry behind it, and how concussion disrupts the process.
26 Jun 2023
The Neural Basis of Emotions
Where do emotions actually come from? Here is the neuroscience: the regions behind core emotions, the chemistry that regulates them, and how they form.
19 Jun 2023
The Mesolimbic Dopamine System: Unveiling the Pathway to Pleasure and Reward
The mesolimbic pathway is the brain's reward circuit. Here is how dopamine drives pleasure and motivation, and what happens when it becomes dysregulated.
22 May 2023
The Vagus Nerve & Gut Brain Axis
The vagus nerve is the main line between your gut and your brain. Here is what it does, how the gut brain axis works, and practical ways to support it.
8 May 2023
Mirror Neurons: Emotional Copycats
Mirror neurons fire when you act and when you watch someone else act. Here is how they work, and why emotion really is contagious between the people near you.
24 Apr 2023