Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see
Your brain and the ocean share an unexpected feature: waves. Electrical activity can move across the brain's surface in patterns known ...
A therapy that “rewrites” childhood memories can ease fear of failure
Certain imagery-based psychotherapy techniques may help reduce fear of failure connected to painful childhood experiences, according to...
Parental haplotype reconstruction in up to 440,209 UK and Estonian individuals reveals recent assortative mating dynamics
Method overview and performanceAM leaves detectable imprints in the offspring genome. That is, when parents are ...
An agenda for real-world fairness research to inform policy and organizations
Kagel, J. H. & Cooper, D. J. in The Handbook of Experimental Economics, Volume 2 (eds Kagel, J. H. & Roth, A. E.) 21...
Voluntary attention regulates acute immune responses in humans
This study complied with all relevant ethical regulations. All participants provided written informed consent be...
Neural dynamics underlying minute-timescale persistent behaviour in the human brain
Badre, D. & Nee, D. E. Frontal cortex and the hierarchical control of behavior. Trends Cogn. Sci. 22, 170–188 (2018).
A little movement in midlife could pay off for your brain years later
Physical activity and healthy blood sugar levels during midlife may be linked to a significantly slower decline in thinking abilities l...
Scientists discover the brain has a fast lane and slow lane for clearing waste
During deep sleep, a water-like fluid moves around the brain and helps remove metabolic waste associated with diseases such as Alzheime...
Human brain cells are far more powerful than scientists thought
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) suggests that individual human neurons can carry ou...
A surprising brain discovery could help explain why we overeat fatty foods
Obesity is a major health problem worldwide and can raise the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other metabolic disorders. ...