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Mind and Behavior
About six minutes after the heart stops, the brain essentially dies.
Salk scientists studied complex decision-making capabilities in a worm with just 302 neurons and a mouth full of teeth. It's smarter than you would think.
The idea that the news can make you sick has a long history.
Can stories help us become more creative?
Head direction cells act like internal compasses to help the birds navigate during long flights.
Awe is a powerful force, a fact that is both exciting and terrifying.
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Dark personality traits include psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and narcissism. Is there room for empathy?
Outrage is a useful emotion that helped our ancient ancestors survive. Today, it leaves us feeling angry, tired, powerless, and miserable.
Nostalgia is a happy remembrance of the past, yet it also leaves us feeling sad. Perhaps ironically, it can serve as a painkiller.
Discussions of human evolution are usually backward looking, as if the greatest triumphs and challenges were in the distant past.
“At that time, it was just a wild idea, [...] that instead of just a loss of consciousness, anesthetics may do something to the brain that actually turns pain off.”
The laws of physics state that you can't create or destroy matter without also creating or destroying an equal amount of antimatter. So how are we here?
Zuranolone might help people feel better sooner than if they were relying on standard treatment alone.
Two aspects of memory – fast updating and long lasting – are typically considered incompatible, yet the insects combined them.
An expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics.
Do the health risks outweigh the benefits?
Despite all that we've learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could "God" be the answer?
From a desert oasis to the Rocky Mountains, being filled with awe makes me a better scientist.
Too many people still view stay-at-home dads as feckless deadbeats, but their acceptance is an important step toward gender equality.
The human brain is only the latest chapter in the ancient story of thinking on Earth.
A ten-minute visit from a therapy dog reduces emergency room patients' pain and anxiety.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
If dark matter exists in a large halo in our galaxy, made up of particles, then it's passing through us constantly. But how much?
Pet owners have consistently reported higher levels of social capital in their communities than people without pets.
“What am I missing?” is a question that journalist Mónica Guzmán thinks more people should start asking.
MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
When actual people correct misinformation online, it can be as effective, if not more so, as when a social media company labels something as questionable.
Think therapy is self-centered? Think again.
An ancient continent called Balkanatolia rose and fell in the area in and around what is now the eastern Mediterranean.
Human organs don't always show up where doctors expect.