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Dopamine Signaling
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
Short-termism is both rooted in our most primal instincts and encouraged by runaway technological development. How can we fight it?
Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.
Turning off a gene called “Myc” has a surprising effect in male fruit flies: They start courting other males.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
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What inequality and populism look like in the brain, according to a neuroscientist.
John Templeton Foundation
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You can learn things 250% faster by unlocking your ‘flow state.’
Willpower alone likely isn't enough to replace a bad habit with a good one.
John Templeton Foundation
Habit-forming rituals are subconsciously controlling your life. Here’s how to master them.
John Templeton Foundation
Peak performance mind hack explained in 7 minutes.
The study shows that it’s possible to map the wildly subjective psychedelic experiences to specific brain regions.
Even though the brain is only 2% of our total body mass, it consumes up to 25% of our energy.
Wordle activates both the language and logic parts of our brain and give us a nice boost of dopamine, whether we win or lose.
When we satisfy our curiosity, the brain has a particular way of rewarding us.
Experiencing too much pleasure and not enough pain may yield counterintuitive consequences.
Our brains might be flooded with the hallucinogen DMT as we die, leading to vivid dreams.