What The Decade Of Your Birth Reveals About Your Brain Size (M)
The decade you were born in may shape not just your life, but your brain size and dementia risk.
Category: Neuroscience
2 Things You Need To Achieve A Perfect Flow State (M)
Discover the two keys to unlocking your peak performance potential.
How Romantic Obsession Alters The Brain And Makes You Manic (M)
Find out why early love can mimic symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder in the brain.
How Standard OCD Therapy Retrains The Brain (M)
Brains scans reveal how therapy gives OCD patients more cognitive control.
Why People Value Things More When They Cost More (M)
People are more likely to watch an obviously bad movie to the end if they paid $10 to see it, compared with when it is free. Why?
The Brain Can Adapt To Injury — But Not By ‘Rewiring’ Itself (M)
Adapting to brain injury requires a lot of hard work, repetition and training.
Hearing Grammatical Errors Makes People Physiologically Stressed (M)
We listen with our whole bodies as other people talk: our heart rate and pupil dilation change, often without our being aware of it.
Why Schizophrenia Causes Problems With Planning And Memory (M)
Schizophrenia can also cause delusions, hallucinations and dramatic changes in behaviour and is one of the most serious types of mental illness.
Lonely Brains Represent Real And Fictional People In The Same Way (M)
It may be that people use fictional characters to fill a space that is missing in their real lives.
Childhood Adversity Leaves A Neural ‘Stamp’ On The Brain (M)
The brain adapts to adversity and this leaves a kind of neural stamp.
