The humans behind BrainTeases.com

PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London. Postdoctoral fellow, MIT McGovern Institute.

Mira earned her PhD studying prefrontal contributions to working memory under Professor Rik Henson at UCL, then spent three years at MIT building computational models of executive control. She has co-authored peer-reviewed work in NeuroImage and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and she now leads BrainTeases.com's editorial review board. Every neuroscience article on the site is read by Mira before publication; she signs off on claims, citations, and any language that touches diagnosis or clinical risk.

MEd in Learning Sciences, Stanford University. Former classroom teacher (8 years, K-12).

Samuel taught middle-school math and science for eight years before training at Stanford in the learning sciences. He builds the cognitive logic behind every BrainTeases challenge - the adaptive difficulty curves, the spacing intervals between reps, the way feedback is framed to build a growth mindset rather than punish error. He maintains the project's internal play-test protocol and partners with classroom teachers to validate that games work for the full range of learners.

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD), licensed clinical psychologist. Specialization in ADHD and adult autism assessment.

Alina is a licensed clinical psychologist with a decade of practice focused on adult ADHD and autism assessment. She advises BrainTeases.com on neurodiversity language, emotional-fitness exercises, and any content that could be misread as clinical advice. Her north star is the identity-affirming, strengths-based framing supported by recent outcome research in The Lancet Psychiatry - and her veto on any wording that pathologizes normal cognitive variation is absolute.

MSc in Science Communication, Imperial College London. Former staff writer at New Scientist.

Jordan has been writing about the brain for general audiences for over a decade. They lead the Curiosity Lab on BrainTeases.com, write the daily brain facts, and run the plain-language pass on every article. Their bar is simple: if the explanation would not delight someone reading it at the kitchen table, it gets rewritten.