Brain/Neuroscience
‘There will be no robo-apocalypse’: Why AI is no match for human creativity and ingenuity
Improvements in machine intelligence will not lead to runaway machine-led revolutions. They may change the kind of jobs that people ...
Treating manic depression and mental illness is the ‘final frontier’ of CRISPR gene therapy
Since the 1980s, scientists have been searching for the genetic root of manic-depression, to better understand it and treat it, ...
Why are so many people resistant to daydreaming?
Thinking is a funny thing because research has shown that we’re the only species that can do it aimlessly. While ...
Ultramarathoning: The joy (and pain) of pushing the edge of human limits
Ultramarathoners are interested in self-knowledge through physical exertion. Endurance running, from marathons up, is both a physical and a mental ...
How the brain reorganizes and rewires after an injury
By the middle of the next decade, soldiers will be working with technology so closely that they will seem to ...
‘Rebooting the brain’: Our fight to bring people back from the dead
We may be on the verge of redefining 'brain death' following the partial revival of a man in France ...
Women who have experienced sexual assault have a higher risk of dementia
Women who have been sexually assaulted have a higher risk of developing a type of brain damage that has been ...
‘Existence of testosterone-based effects should not be an excuse for tolerating aggression, violence, discrimination or other ills’: How the ‘male hormone’ shapes behavior
Testosterone’s wide-reaching effects occur not just in the human body, but across society, powering acts of aggression, violence, and the ...
3D scans of 5,000 points on the human face show links to genetic factors related to autism
In a new study, scientists are using high-tech 3D facial scans to understand the genetic causes of Autism better. Using ...
‘Clinically proven’ memory-boosting supplements like Prevagen don’t work. So how do they escape FDA crackdown?
Some popular supplements advertised on TV claim to be “clinically” proven, but in fact are not. Notably, the maker of ...
Lifebrain project: Education has almost no effect on brain health and does not protect against dementia
If you find it difficult to remember things as you get older, it’s partly because your brain is shrinking gradually, ...
Genetic factors can identify which people with bipolar disorder and PTSD are at the greatest risk of suicide
People who suffer from bipolar disorder and are genetically predisposed to post traumatic stress disorder may have a higher risk ...
How cyber criminals exploit our ‘lizard brains’ to steal our personal information
Nearly 800,000 people fell victim to cyberscams in 2020, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ...
‘Sweeping genetic differences under the rug does not make inequality go away’: Genes found to significantly influence educational achievements
Kathryn Paige Harden argues how far we go in formal education – and the huge knock-on effects that has on ...
How do animals react when danger and death threaten?
Our concept of death is one of those characteristics, like culture, rationality, language or morality, that have traditionally been taken ...
Biotechnology timeline: Humans have manipulated genes since the ‘dawn of civilization’
The history of biotechnology shows how humans have been manipulating nature for our benefit for a long time—and how modern ...
Why is the human brain so different from the brains of closely-related species?
More than 3,000 regions in the human genome are very different in people from in any other mammals, including our ...
A brief history of the revolutionary impact of psychedelic therapy
In the last 10 years, psychedelic drugs like LSD, magic mushrooms, DMT, a host of "plant medicines" – including ayahuasca, ...
How and when did ‘consciousness’ evolve?
[To find a reliable marker for consciousness,] we looked at genes, proteins, anatomical brain regions and neurophysiological processes, but none ...
How dogs ‘read’ humans’ emotional states and use them to guide their decisions
New research has shed light on how an understanding of human emotions by man's best friend can help them predict ...
‘It’s all in your head’: Do thinking and feeling really happen in the brain?
Someone’s probably told you before that something you thought, felt or feared was ‘all in your mind’. I’m here to ...
Obesity, epilepsy, fatty liver and sleep disorders genetically linked to ADHD in adults
Obesity, epilepsy, alcohol-related liver disease, fatty liver, sleep disorders and COPD. These are some of the many diseases that Swedish ...
To learn, our brain cells routinely break and rebuild DNA. That insight is sparking a rethink of disease and aging
Faced with a threat, the brain has to act fast, its neurons making new connections to learn what might spell ...
Automaticity: Why the health benefits of mindfulness are limited and why mindlessness is sometimes better
Although mindfulness has its merits, psychological research has also revealed that in some circumstances it’s important to be mindless. That ...
‘Scientists have searched fruitlessly for brain boundaries between thinking, feeling, deciding, remembering, moving and other experiences’ — but that’s not how it works
Not only do researchers often depict the brain and its functions much as mapmakers might draw nations on continents, but ...
Stem cells harvested from patient with neurological disorder turned into 3D mini brain that shows signs of seizures
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed brain ...
Is love nothing more than brain chemicals?
Love evolved to bribe us to commence and maintain... relationships – with lovers, children, family and friends – which we ...
