From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via HealthCanal: Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such…
From the University of Helsinki press release via EurekAlert!: A research group led by professor Jesper Ekelund showed that by giving a very large dose of famotidine (200 mg daily), sufficient amounts of the drug…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via HealthCanal: A study from Karolinska Institutet shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People can plan strategic movements to several different targets at the same time, even when they see far fewer targets than are actually present, according to a…
From the Vanderbilt University press release via EurekAlert!: Kick back and shut your eyes. Now stop thinking. You have just put your brain into what neuroscientists call its resting state. What the brain is doing…
From the Duke University press release via EurekAlert!: You might be falling in love with that new car, but you probably wouldn’t pay as much for it if you could resist the feeling. Researchers at…
From the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin press release via AlphaGalileo: A far-reaching disorder of the self-esteem is denoted as a narcissistic personality disorder. Persons with pathological narcissism on the one hand suffer from feelings of…
From the Weizmann Institute press release via EurekAlert!: What if experts could dig into the brain, like archaeologists, and uncover the history of past experiences? This ability might reveal what makes each of us a…
From the Columbia University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have demonstrated that a protein called caspase-2 is a key regulator of a signaling pathway that leads to…
From the UCLA press release via EurekAlert!: UCLA researchers have found that older adults who regularly used a brain-fitness program on a computer demonstrated significantly improved memory and language skills. The UCLA team studied 69…