Brain/Neuroscience
What are the emotional and financial consequences of the struggle to treat depression?
Depressed patients with prior treatment failure often face high medical costs and poor quality of life, a new survey suggested ...
Groove to the music? A ‘rhythm gene’ might help set the limits of your dancing skills
The first large-scale genomic study of musicality — published on the cover of September 19 Nature Human Behaviour — identified ...
‘Brain training’ video games help elderly people resist age-related mental deterioration
You may be able to prevent or delay dementia with changes in diet and exercise, research has found. Now another ...
What happens when a word pops into your brain? Learning how we think could help improve artificial intelligence (AI)
Embodied cognition proposes that people understand the words for objects through how they interact with them, so the researchers devised ...
What makes some societies more radicalized and violent than others?
What makes a society resilient against radicalization? The researchers want to determine if there are any common features. And they ...
Can you recall an emotionally charged moment? This single molecule drives whether that memory is good or bad
As Salk Institute postdoctoral researcher Hao Li and his team reported recently in Nature, the difference between memories that conjure ...
Fever dreams are part of our shared human experience, but elude scientific explanation
The COVID-19 pandemic had a documented effect on people’s dreams — even in those who didn’t contract the infection. But ...
Beyond brain fog: COVID infection linked to variety of neurological diseases, including epilepsy, dementia, psychosis
People who got COVID have a higher risk of developing brain disorders such as dementia, psychosis, and brain fog two ...
Is your aging dog showing signs of forgetfulness? New insights on how canine brains age
Hana aced her memory test. After viewing the contents of three identical boxes arrayed in an arc on the back ...
Can exercise reduce dementia risk?
Experts had long believed that exercise could help protect against developing dementia. However, though they had observed a general pattern ...
Doggy dementia: Here’s what you need to know to protect your pet
A large new study of 15,019 dogs enrolled in the Dog Aging Project, an ongoing investigation into canine illness and ...
Elderly are more affected by COVID brain fog, but ‘cognitive rehab’ could be an effective treatment
Eight months after falling ill with covid-19, the 73-year-old woman couldn’t remember what her husband had told her a few ...
Can mathematical formulas identify disinformation and precisely predict elections?
Understanding the human mind and behaviour lies at the core of the discipline of psychology. But to characterise how people’s ...
New study suggests covid increases risks of brain disorders
A study published recently in the journal Lancet Psychiatry showed increased risks of some brain disorders two years after infection ...
Losing memory? Brain stimulation can help — but only for a short time
People’s ability to remember fades with age — but one day, researchers might be able to use a simple, drug-free ...
Brain scans shown to be better at predicting student learning than traditional exams
Traditional exams and grades that educators have long used may measure learning less accurately than brain scans, according to a ...
Challenging decades of demonization, LSD appears to improve human cognition
Researchers grew tiny brain tissue in their lab, which they exposed to solutions containing the powerful psychedelic drug LSD. Under ...
Tired from studying? Thinking hard actually causes buildup of toxins in your brain
It’s no surprise that hard physical labor wears you out, but what about hard mental labor? Sitting around thinking hard ...
The downside of human intelligence
I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed Dr. Justin Gregg's new book If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals ...
‘Cognitive evolution’: How our brains learned to quickly adapt to jarring new environments
I am positive that every person reading this is fundamentally different from when the pandemic started. Because that's how our ...
Why smiley-face potatoes and other food with ‘human-like’ features repulse us
When food is given human-like features, people do not like to eat it, research from the University of Innsbruck, Austria ...
Mutiny: Here’s how glioblastoma uses the brain against itself to spread cancer and resist treatment
New research this week suggests that an aggressive brain cancer can hijack the brain’s own circuitry to further spread and ...
Human brain shrank 3,000 years ago? Long accepted theory challenged by University of Nevada anthropology team
Did the 12th century B.C.E. — a time when humans were forging great empires and developing new forms of written ...
Alzheimer’s is more common in women. Here’s why
Researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the University of Chicago have found a new gene called ...
‘Retracted memories’: The mind treats false recollections as real
False memories can seem just as real as genuine memories. It should be no surprise, then, that they influence how ...
Did you follow COVID lockdown rules? Whether or not you did is partially driven by your DNA
All over the world, people suffered the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on their wellbeing. However, the impact was not ...
New teaching tactics? Verbal and spatial skills may be inextricably linked in the brain
When students use spatial skills in the classroom, the benefits extend beyond spatial understanding to other kinds of thinking, such ...
