Social technology use and life satisfaction in a five-wave panel study of US adults
Twenge, J. M., Martin, G. N. & Campbell, W. K. Decreases in psychological well-being among American adolescents after 20...
Scientists discover a brain “brake” that can shut down chronic pain
Deep inside the brain, a small group of nerve cells helps control how strongly pain signals are felt. Under normal conditions, this sys...
Smart nanoparticles light up brain cancer and destroy what surgery misses
Glioblastoma is considered the most aggressive type of brain cancer.
One reason it is so difficult to treat is that canc...
Ongoing thoughts at rest reflect functional brain organization and behaviour
Buckner, R. L., Andrews-Hanna, J. R. & Schacter, D. L. The brain’s default network: anatomy, function, and relevance to ...
Mentalizing and heuristics as distinct cognitive strategies in human teaching
Csibra, G. & Gergely, G. Natural pedagogy. Trends Cogn. Sci. 13, 148–153 (2009).
Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells
Severe stress during childhood can increase a person's vulnerability to anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders when new challeng...
Educational interventions are effective in improving students’ ethical and moral outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Hudson, T D. & Brandenberger, J. College students’ moral and prosocial responsibility: associations with community engag...
Public perceptions of polygenic testing and embryo selection for non-medical traits
All deviations from the methods and results can be found in the ‘Deviations from registered protocol’ section. ...
Your brain may not actually “make” decisions
What we experience when making a decision may be very different from what actually happens inside the brain, according to Indiana Unive...
Depression may shut down the brain’s ability to make new neurons
Most of the brain's roughly 100 billion neurons are produced before birth. However, the small number of new neurons that continue to fo...