A heroine in Tarantino's Curdled was so eager to know whether a human head will be able to speak after it is cut that she couldn't rest until she found out for herself. Is it a true axiom that says a human body cannot live without brain?
A single protein in the brain influences arousal of despair, according to new study in mice. Brain biopsies revealed that mice trying hardest to escape shocks had highest levels of delta-FosB - which may also help humans avoid hopelessness & helplessness.
A machine that helps you take power naps at the flick of a switch, squeeze 8 hours of sleep into 2 or 3 hours. Transcranial magnetic stimulation induces slow brain waves and deep sleep, according to scientific researchers...
In a striking difference between novices and monks, the latter showed a dramatic increase in high-frequency brain activity called gamma waves during compassion meditation.
The coordinated interplay between neural activity in the amygdala and other brain regions, especially the medial prefrontal cortex, the occipitofrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, and the superior temporal sulcus, allows us to develop social responses...
A recent study found people who took levodopa were 95% more likely to choose symbols associated with higher monetary gains than those who took haloperidol. As a result, the levodopa group won more money, but they did not lose less money. "The results show
A nonspecific immune reaction inducing a syndrome profile of fever, pain, anxiety, depression, reclusivity, anorexia, stress hormones, triggered by signals in the brain’s hypothalamus; body’s attempt to produce & preserve energy; cells secrete proinfl
What you speak may influence what you hear, a new study shows. People perceive different patterns in the same sound sequences depending on their native tongue, researchers have found. The short, first note of “Greensleeves” may sound naturally eleg
As we yawn and open our eyes in the morning, the brain stem sends little puffs of nitric oxide to another part of the brain, the thalamus, which then directs it elsewhere. Like a computer booting up its operating system before running more complicated
Men with a personality disorder underwent brain-imaging which showed they suffered from a lack of nerve cells in one area of their brains. The cells - equivalent to about two teaspoonful's worth - were missing in the men, who had all committed serious,
Take this online test. It's the same thing used in mental health care facilities, and is deemed effective at identifying psychopathy and those inclined to commit psychopathic murders or exhibit psychopathic behavior.
Ground-breaking new research is showing just what happens to the brain during a psychotic episode, and how this can lead to violence, even murder...Researchers have found that people with a history of violence - whether psychotic or psychopathic - have a
Psychopaths showed less activity in brain areas involved in assessing the emotion of facial expressions, the British Journal of Psychiatry reports. In particular, they were far less responsive to fearful faces than healthy volunteers.
Aurelius meditated that, “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
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