Brain/Neuroscience
Out-of-body experiences explained: Here’s how the brain ‘creates’ your sense of physical self
New insight comes from zapping a region, known as the anterior precuneus, that causes people to feel dissociated from their ...
Can’t start your day without a cup of joe? Coffee’s energizing effects may be a placebo
Scientists testing coffee against plain caffeine found that plain caffeine only partially reproduces the effects of drinking a cup of ...
What should you do when dogs have separation anxiety?
As with people, some dogs may be more neurologically prone to anxiety. But canine stress is often mistaken for mischief ...
‘The hallucination of reality’: Where does consciousness reside — inside or outside the brain?
The hard problem of consciousness has puzzled philosophers and neuroscientists alike for decades: consciousness, the hallucination of reality, and whether ...
Craving food from morning til bedtime: Anecdotal stories reveal how weight-loss drug Ozempic quells ‘food noise’
Until she started taking the weight loss drug Wegovy, Staci Klemmer’s days revolved around food. When she woke up, she plotted ...
Russia banned GMOs years ago to distinguish itself from the United States. What’s its current stance toward genetic engineering, CRISPR and other New Breeding Techniques?
Russia's decision to ban importation and cultivation of GMOs made sense from a political perspective. But it's a decision the ...
Confidence heuristic: Why humans are biologically programmed to follow self-assured, poised people
Human evolution has led to us naturally believe statements delivered in a more assured manner ...
Immorality, lack of empathy, anti-social behavior: The evolution of psychopathological tendencies
By one estimate, as many as 20% of business leaders have “clinically relevant levels” of psychopathic tendencies ...
Video: Everything you need to know about the evolution of the human brain, in 7 minutes
An evolutionary history of the human brain, in 7 minutes ...
Why are infants’ earliest months such a crucial time for brain development?
New tools are helping neuroscientists investigate why early life is such a crucial time for neural development ...
Mental decline explained: What’s the difference between Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia?
The haunting reality of Alzheimer's disease and dementia is a terrifying prospect for many individuals and their families ...
Lousy sex life? Too little intimacy could be risk factor for dementia
What researchers don’t know is whether declining sexual satisfaction is causing the memory decline, vice versa, or whether the two ...
How does social media affect kids’ developing brains? US Surgeon General releases mental health advisory
Today, 95 percent of teenagers use social media, and two-thirds daily. One in 7 kids spends more than seven hours ...
Burst of creativity: Frontal lobe dementia boosts poetic and artistic talents
Frontotemporal dementia can release the creative potential of the brain’s visual areas ...
Does brain stimulation boost memory or improve focus? It depends
Analysis of more than 100 studies of non-invasive electrical brain stimulation probes whether the controversial technology works ...
How octopuses reprogram their brains as they move back and forth between chilly and warm water
[R]esearchers report that octopuses are able to edit genetic information to quickly resculpt those brains when confronted with changes in ...
Attention span crisis: In a world of 10-second videos, are we losing our ability to read complicated texts?
Have we really become worse at reading than we were before? And is it really that important to be able ...
The myth of the reptilian human brain is tenacious – but wrong
The reptilian brain is often blamed for our primitive instincts that can trigger fight, flight or freeze responses in us ...
GLP podcast and video: Mind-reading social media platforms; Developing countries reject Greenpeace’s ‘privileged’ green beliefs; New antibiotic coming soon?
Social media companies are experimenting with new technologies that measure human brain activity. Does this drive to fine tune the ...
‘Awakenings’ for real: Trapped in her brain for 20 years, a catatonic woman awakes. Her story may spark a revolution in the treatment of severe schizophrenia
New research suggests that a subset of patients with psychiatric conditions such as schizophrenia may actually have autoimmune disease that ...
Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant approved for human trials by the FDA
Elon Musk's brain-implant company Neuralink said May 25 that it got approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ...
Mind-reading brain implants: 40-year-old paralyzed man can now walk, climb stairs and more
A 40-year-old man whose legs are paralyzed is able to climb stairs, move over ramps and switch from standing to ...
Memory loss as you age? Multi-vitamin supplements show modest benefits
Older adults who took a multivitamin each day for three years found a mild improvement in their memory after one ...
New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?
Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy ...
What kick-started the evolution of our complex human brains?
A chance rearrangement of the human genome over a million years ago probably kick-started the evolution of modern humans from ...
Marijuana and psychosis: Cannabis use linked to 30% of diagnoses in young men
A huge Danish study shows that up to 30 percent of psychosis diagnoses in young men could have been prevented ...
Psychological differences between women and men are often the largest in gender egalitarian cultures. Why?
Psychological differences between women and men are often the largest in cultures that are the most gender egalitarian ...
