From the INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale) press release: Astrocytes are cells in the brain which have long been considered only as mere support cells for neurons. In recent…
From the Brigham and Women’s Hospital press release: More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: Small children learn language at a pace far faster than teenagers or adults. One explanation for this learning advantage comes not from differences between children and adults, but…
From the University of Cincinnati press release: There are plenty of negatives associated with smart technology — tech neck, texting and driving, blue light rays — but there is also a positive: the digital age…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: The urgency to remember a dangerous experience requires the brain to make a series of potentially dangerous moves: Neurons and other brain cells snap open their DNA…
From the University of South Florida press release: All it takes is three consecutive nights of sleep loss to cause your mental and physical well-being to greatly deteriorate. A new study published in Annals of Behavioral…
From the Massachusetts General Hospital press release: As we age, our brains typically undergo a slow process of atrophy, causing less robust communication between various brain regions, which leads to declining memory and other cognitive…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Researchers have discovered a specific brain region underlying ‘goal-directed behaviour’ — that is, when we consciously do something with a particular goal in mind, for example going to…
From the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg press release: Want to have a happy relationship? Make sure both partners feel they can decide on issues that are important to them. Objective power measured by income, for example, doesn’t…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study of infant curiosity found that months-old babies most captivated by magic tricks became the most curious toddlers, suggesting a pre-verbal baby’s level of interest…