Neuroscience Stories
Higher levels of stress hormones produced by your body could potentially impact the volume of your brain as well as your thinking ability, according to new findings.
In surprising findings, people reported feeling less intense pain when they were provided treatment by someone from a group different than their own.
Just 10 minutes of exercise, as mild an evening stroll that won't make you sweat too much, could provide a boost in memory power, according to a new study.
In a study with mice, researchers observed how the "keep eating" signal overpowered the "stop eating" signal, as a result of two clusters of brain cells being activated at the same time.
Are human beings hard-wired to be lazy? Your brain has to use additional resources to fight off its innate attraction to sedentary behavior, a new study from Canada revealed.
In a study with adult rats, males who were exposed to the drug while in the uterus were found to exhibit antisocial behavior later. No such effect was observed in the female mice.
In a new study featuring fruit flies, researchers found that their behavioral state (i.e. walking speed) may play a role in whether they freeze or flee when responding to danger.
We know that positive health effects are linked to giving support, not only to receiving it. But can the type of support — whether it is targeted or untargeted — also make a difference?
Whether you prefer to exercise at the gym or head outdoors, chances are you would like to work out to a high-energy playlist. Turns out, the music could literally help you stave off fatigue.
Find yourself at constant war with school-related or work-related deadlines? The size of a brain structure, known as the amygdala, may influence your tendency to procrastinate, say researchers.
Your attention acts like less like a spotlight and more like a strobe, researchers say. Two studies involving human and animals subjects found focus tends to dip four times per second.
Researchers from Switzerland developed a game which gave participants a chance to get revenge against an unfair player. Brain activity was simultaneously observed with an MRI scanner.