Scientists are increasingly working out that the body actually shapes the mind. New research even raises hopes about new treatments for mental health problems.
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Why is figurative language more powerful – and what feelings exactly does it stir in an audience?
A recent study suggested that the brain becomes accustomed to lying, making people merely puppets of their brains. That’s too simple an explanation – and one that lets liars off the hook.
Science has shown that women are better at nurturing and men are better at logic. Or has it?
Heavy drinking causes brain changes that make you want to drink more. But using a virus to deliver a gene into specific neurons in the brain may be a way to mitigate those changes.
Without research on primates, we wouldn’t be able to understand the human brain – or repair it.
Our study published this week shows a new method to induce and measure visual hallucinations in anyone at any time.
While AI seems unstoppable, our improved understanding of human brains is levelling the playing field for now.
If you are a ballet dancer or gymnast, a watch-maker or surgeon, your brain connections in the motor system will differ depending on your skills for fine movements in different parts of your body.
Many regions fundamental to mood are buried deep in the most primordial parts of the brain; that is, they are thought to have been among the first brain regions to develop in the human species.
Many people believe they have a soul. But for psychologists, who study behaviour, it is not so much that souls do not exist, it is that there is no need for them.
How will neurotech evolve? An NAS workshop this week focuses on social and ethical opportunities and challenges we face both now and down the road.
Welcome to the world of cloths and materials that change depending on your mood.
Are you impulsive and easily bored? You may be a thrill seeker.
Even decades after amputation, the brain is still structured as if the hand were there, casting new light on ‘phantom limb’ phenomenon.
Neuroscientists analysed the brains of 210 healthy young adults. The result was a modern atlas of the human brain, 97 areas of which have never been described before.
How does your brain deal with the ambiguous and variable visual information your eyes collect? Neuroscientists think it bets on what’s the most likely version of reality.
Fresh hope for sufferers of mental illness.
Different animals and different behaviors rely on various forms and combinations of ‘government’ to carry out desired actions.
Some cognitive enhancers can reduce the brain power of high performers by weakening their memory.
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Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology, University of Cambridge
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor of Family & Community Medicine and Pediatrics, retired, University of California, San Francisco
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