Neuroscience Stories
- Science finds talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence, not mental illness.
- People who possess an openness to experience are more likely to be creative, and view the world differently than most.
- Brain games for adults do very little to prevent memory loss, and stave off cognitive decline and disorders.
- New research has identified differences in how an alcohol-dependent brain responds to booze compared to brains without a dependency.
- Missing your daily cup of coffee in the morning can induce a pounding headache.
- Drinking a cup or three of tea a day can reduce the risk of cognitive decline by 50 percent.
- Researchers at the University of York suggest high levels of vitamin B12 in Marmite may ward off dementia by changing your brain chemistry.
- A man who had been paralyzed from the shoulders down for the past eight years was able to use his arm to feed himself thanks to a mind-controlled device that reconnected the lost signals between his brain and arm muscles.
- Brain scans may predict the best depression treatment for patients based on their brain's functional connectivity.
- The effect of smoking weed versus eating weed on the brain.
- New research has identified ways that the brain connections in people born blind adapt and rewire, a behavior that can help strengthen their remaining senses.
- Relying on photos to look back on your childhood can lead to fake memories.