neuroscience
A blank canvas for generations of science.
Digging deeper into the mystery of the brain, soul, and consciousness.
Turns out the more we desire a food, the more we have to consume to feel satiated.
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.”
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The countdown continues! This is the 5th most popular video of 2018 — for good reason.
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Studies from neuroscience highlight how the brain both helps with and prevents collaboration.
The relationship between our genotypes and our psychological traits, while substantial, is highly indirect and emergent.
From psychology to neuroscience, what we believe is not nearly as relevant as why we do.
In Well Grounded, behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert says it’s all about contingency planning.
Childhood trauma can affect a child’s brain in dramatic ways for the rest of their lives.
Over 67,000 trials by the Color Guard can’t be wrong.
New research suggests brains anticipate future events through a process called anticipatory timing.
A study on flies may hold the key to future addiction treatments.
When you slow down after exiting the highway, or hush your voice in the library, you’re using this brain mechanism.
A guide to making difficult conversations possible—and peaceful—in an increasingly polarized nation.
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Pleasure is not just about experiencing an enjoyable moment. It also involves anticipation – a connection between one’s present and future selves.
“Our results show why debates about controversial issues often seem so futile,” the researchers said.
In a study that might enable earlier diagnosis, neuroscientists find abnormal brain connections that can predict onset of psychotic episodes.
Famously unusual case studies that perplexed psychologists.
Attention rates, however, remained the same whether smoking or not.