Darwinian evolution has powerfully favoured the growth of ever more diverse, excruciating, but also more adaptive varieties of psychophysical pain. Its sheer nastiness effectively spurs and punishes the living vehicles of genetic replicators.
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.
What is morphological freedom? I would view it as an extension of one’s right to one’s body, not just self-ownership but also the right to modify oneself according to one’s desires.
Benefits of integrating high-throughput microarray studies, together with protein–protein interaction networks, in elucidating the underlying biological processes associated with a complex disorder.
Emergingresearch in the fields of radiology, drug therapeutics, and vaccine development has great potential to change breast cancer treatment & prevention.
This tree is constructed from an analysis of small subunit rRNA sequences sampled from approximately 3,000 species from throughout the Tree of Life. The species were chosen based on their availability, but most of the major taxonomic groups were included,
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.
A genetic breakthrough reveals reasons for human differences; it now appears much of the variation is explained instead by people having multiple copies of some key genes that make up the human genome. Until now it was believed the variation between p
The novel neuropeptides hypocretin and orexin, located recently on the lateral hypothalamic cells, has been linked to both feeding and sleeping/waking cycles. Recent studies have found an association between defects in hypocretin/orexin and narcolepsy.