Neuroscience

Neuroscience

Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.
A cup of coffee with a brain silhouette drawn on the foam.
Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.
These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.
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Has the "age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.
Don’t worry that your dog’s world is visually drab.
When you can't enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.
Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.
Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain "rewire" itself by forming new neural pathways.
People with shingles have an approximately 80% higher risk of stroke than those without the disease.
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The "subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane" helps shield and protect the brain.
"Jumping genes" exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.
The majority of children who stutter will spontaneously recover from it without intervention, but some 20% of people do not.
Boredom isn’t the enemy; it’s a catalyst for changing your relationship to work.
It was originally recorded in the 1970s by cognitive psychologists Harry McGurk and John MacDonald.
Only recently have scientists directly witnessed this most pivotal of events in biology.
Closeup of a baby being kissed by his mother.
Sharing food and kissing are among the signals babies use to interpret their social world, according to a new study.
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It was a particularly good year for biotech and medical technology. There were also notable advances in energy.
What if you could just grow your own blood?
When we're stressed, our hormones and nervous system produce all sorts of odors.
Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.
Belief in God and the afterlife increased, while belief in superstition decreased.