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Ancient beverages such as tea and chamomile can heighten your modern-day performance.
This means the disease may be curable and a vaccine possible.
Almost 200 cognitive biases rule our everyday thinking. A new codex boils them down to 4.
It increases their brains’ gray matter volume.
A new study shows promise for epigenetic treatments for humans suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Even some teachers suffer from anxiety about math.
Research by neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory helps explain how the brain regulates arousal.
Our attention is more than just a resource. It is an experience.
Upload your mind? Here’s a reality check on the Singularity.
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Some experts say there’s no such thing. I choose to believe there likely is.
A definition of death is surprisingly malleable, leading to complications when it comes to organ donation.
The dogs’ ability to recognise and process human faces surpasses even that of monkeys. This newly-identified brain region may be the reason why.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Researchers discover whether genes or social interaction shape personality.
The study suggest implicit biases can change significantly over a relatively short timeframe.
How mutual admiration was torn asunder by the sex drive: Freud, Jung and the schism at the heart of psychoanalysis.
None of these steps are quick or easy, but practice and online courses can help.
The first steps toward developing tools that could help disabled people regain the power to speak.
The secret to a calmer trip to work could be hidden in plain sight.
Psychedelics are crude drugs. Could neuroscience and super-intelligent AI help us design something better?
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Three study participants described their own memories as almost completely lacking a first-person perspective or involving any sense of “re-experiencing.”
The countdown continues! This is the #3 most popular video of 2018.
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Remaining mentally active slows dementia’s symptoms, if not its progress.
The countdown continues! This is the 5th most popular video of 2018 — for good reason.
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When Cresswell returned to teaching after a five-year break, she noticed a marked difference in the ways undergraduates approached learning in the classroom.
Studies from neuroscience highlight how the brain both helps with and prevents collaboration.
Celebrating five years since Grain Brain was published, David Perlmutter doubles down on his warnings.
The relationship between our genotypes and our psychological traits, while substantial, is highly indirect and emergent.