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Neuroscience
A recent study reveals how nerve insulation becomes impaired in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Becoming less physically active as you get older is not inevitable.
Virtually all the statistical methods researchers commonly use assume potential mating partners decide who they will have children with based on a roll of the dice.
Flexible organic circuits might someday hook right into your head.
Bilingualism confers various mental health and social benefits. Perhaps knowing a second alphabet confers even more.
Psychologists are finding that moral code violations can leave an enduring mark — and may require new types of therapy.
An independent researcher looks into why there's such strong opposition to her research.
Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.
"In our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy."
9mins
Stress shrinks your brain. Neuroscientist Lisa Genova explains how to strengthen it.
New memories appear to be stabilized in the brain by a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA).
Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
Brown noise, the better-known white noise, and even pink noise are all sonic hues.
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Futurist Ari Wallach shares how to become future-conscious.
Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.
Giving speech to the speechless.
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.
7mins
The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.
John Templeton Foundation
Maybe our understanding of quantum entanglement is incomplete, or maybe there is something fundamentally unique about consciousness.
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Debates about the existence of free will traditionally have been fought by two competing camps: those who believe in free will and those who don’t because they believe the Universe […]
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
It's time for Tetris.
The answer may depend on your lifestyle.