Brain/Neuroscience
Viewpoint: Hard-wired gender — Don’t believe claims that there are almost no differences between male and female brains
Men’s and women’s brains are biased to notice and process different aspects of the social and physical world ...
Political psychology: Democrats and Republicans exist on polarized extremes
The United States, though politically fractious since its founding, is more polarized than ever, the rhetoric more inflammatory, the rage ...
‘No other drug has ever alleviated symptoms of traumatic brain injury’: Psychoactive ibogaine reduces PTSD, anxiety and depression in veterans
Researchers have discovered that the plant-based psychoactive drug ibogaine can safely and effectively reduces PTSD, anxiety and depression ...
‘When you’re starving, hunger is like a demon’: Scientists finally grasping how hunger commandeers the brain
More than 1.9 billion adults worldwide are overweight and more than 650 million are obese, a condition correlated with a ...
Love on the brain: Here’s the science behind how relationships make us ‘weak in the knees’
Researchers have measured how a part of the brain is responsible for putting our loved one on a pedestal in ...
Inherited suicide risk: 12 genes related to severe depression discovered
Suicide attempt is strongly associated with psychiatric conditions, poor quality of life, traumatic experiences, and social or economic burden ...
Early Alzheimer’s diagnosis: Scanning the eye with AI tools could help us catch dementia 20 years before symptoms show up
RetiSpec developed an artificial-intelligence algorithm that it says can analyze results from an eye scanner to detect signs of Alzheimer’s ...
Drug-free pain management: Retraining the brain with ‘pain reprocessing therapy’ hopes to offer alternative to opioids
“Pain reprocessing therapy,” tries to train the brain not to send false pain signals. Some early results are promising ...
Scent on the brain: Decline in olfactory abilities can signal conditions such as Alzheimer’s
Now researchers say our sense of smell, and its connection to our memory, could be used to help fight dementia ...
Past and present intertwine: Traumatic memories spark brain area involved in introspection and daydreaming
Traumatic memories appeared to engage a different area of the brain — the posterior cingulate cortex or P.C.C ...
Humans are born with brains roughly comparable to small primates — then humans have a brain development boom
A new study challenges the belief that human newborns have significantly less developed brains than other primates ...
Determining dementia risk: 21-point Brain Care Score predicts chances of dementia and stroke later in life
A new tool named the Brain Care Score, or BCS, may help you assess your risk of developing dementia or ...
Size isn’t everything: Brain connections and neuron wiring contribute more to human intelligence than volume
Human brains are bigger than those of our primate relatives, but evidence from extinct human ancestors suggests brain size isn't ...
Rethinking the ‘little brain’: The cerebellum finally has its moment, recognized as a driver of higher human intelligence
Researchers are realizing that the 'little brain' or cerebellum expanded during evolution and contributes to the capacities unique to humans ...
Food and your brain: ‘Ultra-processed’ foods high in salt, sugar and fat are cheap and accessible — but increase risks of anxiety and depression
Although many ultra-processed foods—soda, candy, energy bars, fruit-flavored yogurt, frozen pizza, and frozen meals—can satisfy cravings for sweet, fatty, salty ...
‘Emotions are friends not foes’: Why we shouldn’t try to control negative emotions
Our beliefs about emotions—whether we feel that they’re good or bad, controllable or uncontrollable—affect our life and relationships ...
Canine neuroscience: Exploring what shapes dog personalities
Why do dogs behave so differently, even within their own breeds? Neuroscientist unlocking secrets of canine brain ...
Is death a singular event or a process?
Dying is in fact a process—one with no clear point demarcating the threshold across which someone cannot come back ...
Radical advances in mind reading technology: How it’s possible to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind
How we think, feel and experience the world is a mystery, but technology may be starting to help us understand ...
Can psychedelics like MDMA and magic mushrooms help relieve PTSD symptoms? The Department of Veterans Affairs is determined to find out
The Department of Veterans Affairs says it's committed to studying whether psychedelics are effective treatments for PTSD ...
This brain implant can translate brain waves into real-time communication
Duke scientists create brain implant — Prosthetic decodes signals from brain’s speech center to predict what sound someone is trying ...
Autism increase mystery solved? No, it’s not vaccines, GMOs, glyphosate—or organic foods
A change in how we diagnose and report autism and not vaccines, glyphosate or chemtrails is the prime mover as ...
Do rats have a sense of imagination?
Like humans, rats have the ability to imagine locations other than the place they're in, brain research shows ...
‘Deep theoretical crisis’: How valid is psychotherapy?
As a therapist, you need to be ready to abandon the method you know and like if it doesn’t make ...
Science of lie detection: Does nervousness suggest someone isn’t telling the truth?
Do you become sceptical when someone appears nervous? Could they be lying? How can we catch someone in a lie? ...
Why are there 500 different types of psychotherapy?
Treatments can vary widely and are sometimes even contradictory. But no one is making sure that the method you use ...
One night without sleep boosts dopamine levels in the brain. Could this finding lead to a potential depression cure?
The antidepressant effect of sleep loss in some mice may have implications for the future of depression treatments ...
