neuroscience
Childhood trauma can affect a child’s brain in dramatic ways for the rest of their lives.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can’t be wrong.
New research suggests brains anticipate future events through a process called anticipatory timing.
A study on flies may hold the key to future addiction treatments.
When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.
A guide to making difficult conversations possible—and peaceful—in an increasingly polarized nation.
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Pleasure is not just about experiencing an enjoyable moment. It also involves anticipation – a connection between one’s present and future selves.
“Our results show why debates about controversial issues often seem so futile,” the researchers said.
In a study that might enable earlier diagnosis, neuroscientists find abnormal brain connections that can predict onset of psychotic episodes.
Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.
Attention rates, however, remained the same whether smoking or not.
Nasal inhalation may help us retain olfactory memories longer.
A neuroscientist argues that da Vinci shared a disorder with Picasso and Rembrandt.
Experiments show brain-to-brain collaboration.
Researchers at the Rotman School of Management discovered that past victories rarely translate into new environments.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute have pinpointed a neurological trend in those genetically predisposed with depression.
A man paralyzed from the waist down was able to voluntarily control and move his legs with the help of an electrical implant in his spine.
Blame our ancestors for why it’s easier to be a couch potato.
Fight or flight? We’ve all been there. Now we have an understanding of how it works.
It’s all about smooth pursuit.
How does Alzheimer’s disease work?
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The brain of a gambling addict mimics that of a drug addict. But no outside chemicals are involved. How does that happen?
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A newly discovered phenomenon shows that humans communicate outside of mere auditory and visual modes.
Want to work out more? Eat more healthily? Quit smoking? These neurons control the fate of your habits.
Anxiety disorders are common. Yet, many find current treatments methods only partially effective.