How Standard OCD Therapy Retrains The Brain (M)
Brains scans reveal how therapy gives OCD patients more cognitive control.
Category: Neuroscience
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.
Why Eating Disorders Are So Difficult To Treat (M)
Eating disorders are likely not the only disorders that have problems with the brain’s habit circuitry at their core.
Neuroscientists Pinpoint Our Bodily Sense Of Self In The Brain (M)
The structure, which lies roughly underneath the top of the head, integrates information about our location in space and motion through it.
Why We Have Hair On Our Heads (M)
No other mammals have a mostly naked body but hair on their head.
