Brain/Neuroscience
Measuring the addictive potential of ‘ultra-processed foods’
Given the option, most rats will choose sugar instead of cocaine. Their lust for the carbohydrate is so intense that they ...
Brain-computer implants restore some speaking ability to paralyzed patients
Pat Bennett takes part in a research session, using a brain-computer interface that helps translate her thoughts into speech ...
The Transcendent Brain: How spirituality and science can work together to explain the human experience
We may have mystical moments science can’t explain, but Alan Lightman still believes in a universe ruled by natural law ...
3-inch live worm found wiggling in woman’s brain explains mystery health symptoms
In a world first, scientists say an 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian ...
Sweetness and bitterness: The evolutionary story of how our sense of taste evolved
The sweetness of sugar is one of life’s great pleasures. People’s love for sweet is so visceral, food companies lure ...
Grandiosity or self loathing: Understanding the sufferings of narcissists
Chances are you've encountered a narcissist, and they looked nothing like Trump, Musk or Modi. Up to 6 percent of ...
Why do humans have large brains? It may be because humans begin having sex later in life than other mammals
A very brainy biologist has devised a computer model that recreates the development of our cognitive contraption ...
Video: ‘Our brains love pictures’ — Lebanese teenage savant recites all 206 bones of the body in random order
Our brain is a super machine capable of learning the most incredible things. And with practice and repetition, you can ...
Squid thoughts: Scientists genetically-engineer glass-like cephalopod with brain that glows when it thinks
A team at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has successfully engineered an albino strain of the hummingbird bobtail squid, Euprymna ...
Traumatic brain injuries can damage short-term memory. A potential solution? It’s shocking
More than 1.5 million people in the U.S. sustain a TBI each year. Common causes include falls, motor vehicle accidents, ...
Why can humans speak but monkeys can’t? It may be due to this one brain quirk
Speech is unique to humans, but most of the brain structures involved in speech production are also present in Old ...
Male libido: Promising early research zeroes in on brain circuitry that controls sexual interest—in mice
A single hardwired brain circuit might be responsible for male sexual drive, a new mouse study reports. Researchers have singled ...
This Pink Floyd recording was made with the most complex instrument on Earth: The brain
This research aims to develop technology that lets patients who have lost the ability to speak communicate more naturally ...
Mapping the brain: 4,000+ genetic variants identified after reviewing 36,000 brain scans
The largest-ever study of brain genetics has identified over 4,000 genetic variants associated with brain structure ...
Genetically-modified pig kidney transplants into live patients may be next in wake of successful transplants into brain-dead patients
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham published a peer-reviewed study showing that modified pig kidneys performed complex life-sustaining ...
What explains Homo sapiens’ huge brains? Ancient climate change played a role
Climate change may have contributed to the increase in the brain size of human ancestors, a new study suggests ...
Viewpoint: What role can and should genetics play in understanding which people might become violent and commit crimes — and putting them in jail?
Using biology to understand criminal behavior has long been controversial. Top criminology programs are pursuing it anyway ...
Should University Agricultural Research Scientists Partner With Industry?
Studies show research on GE crops is not significantly influenced by conflicts of Interest. However, it is important to remain ...
Does Barbie cause girls to have negative feelings about their bodies?
Barbie body image: A clinical health psychologist talks about Barbie’s influence on how women and girls view their body ...
‘It was like a psychedelic trip’: Neurosurgeon describes coma and near-death-experience
Both DMT and a near-death experience evoked feelings of transcending time and space and glimpsing the multiverse, while at the ...
The Hidden Spring: Controversial new book addresses where consciousness originates
Viewpoint: Why and how does the subjective quality of experience arise from objective neurophysiological events? ...
‘Nothing short of a miracle’: Surgeons reattach boy’s head after car accident
Surgeons in Israel performed a miracle surgery and managed to reattach a boy’s head after he was hit by a ...
Ignorance of our ignorance: What causes self-deception?
Self-deception is part of the human condition, and psychologists have long studied our ignorance of our own ignorance ...
As many as 1 in 7 people are diagnosed with a personality disorder, but what does it really mean?
Personality disorder: There are 10 different types, but what exactly is it and what does it mean to receive such ...
Is there a simple way to test for signs of Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear?
Doctors’ reliance on symptom-based testing could soon change taking a backseat to biomarkers: telltale signs of the disease ...
Debunking Dunning-Kruger: It’s widely believed that the less you know, the more you think you know. Does everyone think they’re better than average?
John Cleese, the British comedian, once summed up the idea of the Dunning–Kruger effect as, “If you are really, really stupid, then ...
Viewpoint: Why do some global cancer research agencies claim that using a cell phone (like drinking Diet Coke with aspartame) poses a cancer risk?
Although some people argue that cell phone usage contributes to rising brain cancer rates, analysis of the data shows no ...
