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Recent discoveries about bodily awareness have changed how scientists think about the nature of consciousness.
The "love hormone" might be an unexplored treatment for Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
It's time for Tetris.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.
Studying neuroscience through art.
A long-maligned treatment outperforms the trendy one.
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
Antidepressants can help alleviate PTSD symptoms when paired with psychotherapy, but does our overenthusiasm for them blind us to more effective alternatives?
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
An increase in genetic regulatory elements explains how modern humans evolved bigger brains than other hominins.
The same brain differences that contribute to left-handedness also contribute to psychotic disorders. But there's a bright side.
One award was for a medical procedure that incapacitated thousands of people.
The DARPA-funded memory prosthesis helps the brain retain new information.
Which studies are actually worth the hype?
The findings of a recent study may help explain why some people are quicker to forget fearful memories.
Fiona Broome remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s (he didn't). Oddly, many people had the same false memory.
People think that unhappiness causes our minds to wander, but what if the causation goes the other way?
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
A key question is how to keep that relief going without relying solely on repeated ketamine infusions.
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here's how.
If you're trying to hide how you feel about something, be careful with your hands.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.