The brain itself can’t actually feel pain. It can’t sense damage to itself the way your finger can. We know this because people can have brain surgery while they are totally awake.
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An adult brain weighs about 1.5kg. It’s mostly water with some fat, protein, sugar and a dash of salt. Sounds like pancakes, I know, but I once tried chicken brains and, well, pancakes are tastier.
Reading and writing may have evolved thanks to a natural ability of the brain’s visual cortex to process geometrical shapes.
Psychological phenomena like confirmation bias and the Dunning-Kruger effect make it easy for people to fall for deliberate or inadvertent lies in the news.
Scientists have developed a robotic arm with knowledge of its physical form – a very basic sense of self.
Teens get a bad rap as selfish, dangerous risk-takers. But neuroscience and psychology research is revising that image: Adolescents are primed to help those around them, with positive benefits for all.
New study sheds light on the mystery of how people can experience and control phantom limbs decades after losing a body part.
Specific brain networks are at work when we are conscious. New results can help distinguish truly unconscious patients from those who have some degree of consciousness.
Popular accounts of the effects of microdosing don’t quite match the experience of long-term microdosers, according to this new research.
The stressful political climate worsened with the shutdown of the federal government. And even though a break may be in sight, even the uncertainty adds stress. A neuroscientist offers ways to cope.
If you want to really learn your way around a new place, paper maps still trump digital options.
Clutter can make us feel stressed, anxious and depressed. It can also impact our ability to process information and connect with people. Here’s why.
What you remember of your last meal affects when and how much you eat next time around. Neuroscientists have now identified neurons in the brain’s hippocampus that are crucial to this process.
Fear is very much a part of humans’ survival. Demagogues and others who want to manipulate have learned that this human trait can be exploited, often with disastrous consequences.
Edgar Allen Poe, Sigmund Freud and cognitive scientists have all wrestled with the human tendency to behave in ways that are irrational and self-defeating.
Decades of work with lab rats lead to suggestions on how to stay grounded in the here and now, with benefits for brain health.
It’s not as simple as saying you won’t ‘feel the benefit’.
Beware of the blind use of artificial intelligence: used as a “magic wand”, for example in an autonomous car, it presents risks.
How does being thankful about things in your own life relate to any selfless concern you may have about the well-being of others? A neuroscientist explores the gratitude/altruism connection.
Without their devices, regular GPS users take longer to negotiate a route, travel more slowly and make larger navigational errors.
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