Why Smart People Still Believe Conspiracy Theories
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger November 14, 2017 Millions of Americans believe in conspiracy theories — including plenty of people who you might expect would be smart enough to know better. […]
Five ways science can improve your focus
Source: BBC News By Caroline Williams 25 September 2017 The internet is bursting with advice on how to concentrate amid a sea of distractions. But many of them are either […]
Vegetative-state patient responds to therapy
Source: BBC News By Michelle Roberts Health editor, BBC News online Image copyrightCORAZZOL ET ALImage captionTests show the man’s brain activity before (L) and after (R) the treatment A man […]
Why Teenage Brains Are So Hard to Understand
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin 12:00 PM ET TIME Health For more, visit TIME Health. The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Childhood, which is available in […]
Secrets of the Mind Nova
Source: Youtube A blind man can see. Another feels pain in his missing arm. One believes he’s God. A son thinks his parents are imposters. Are their thoughts real or […]
The most promising route to ‘mental superpowers’
Source: BBC By Bobby Azarian 8 May 2017 Many of us have our special ways of dealing with our feelings and emotions. For instance, when we are feeling stressed we […]
Neuroscientists Are Searching for God in Our Gray Matter
Source: Tonic By Shayla Love Neuroscientists have long been curious about the neural basis of faith. Between 1967 and 1970, neurologist and Korean War veteran William Caveness started an unusual collection. […]
Prize for cracking brain’s ‘feel good’ system
Source: BBC By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News website Image copyrightSPL The UK based winners cracked the brain’s “reward centre” It influences your happiness, pleasure or motivation to do something But the system can go wrong turning people into addicts Three UK-based scientists have won a prestigious […]
The surprising power of the tiny brain
Source: BBC By Sarah Hewitt 24 January 2017 A bumblebee flies up to inspect a flower, looking for a taste of nectar. It buzzes around a bit and realises that […]
This Is the Number One Mistake Parents Make When Arguing With Kids
Time: How do you deal with out of control kids? The authors of the bestseller How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk have some […]
The daily pain of having extreme perception
Source: BBC By Emma Young From Mosaic 20 June 2016 At the age of six, Jack Craven started telling his mother he wanted to die. “God made a mistake when […]
Pakistan born kid becomes world’s youngest Microsoft IT specialist
Dawn: ISLAMABAD – Pakistani-Briton Ayan Qureshi, who has only just started going to primary school, successfully completed the assessment to become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional on the planet. A five-year-old kid broke the previous record of six and a half by passing the exam at the age of five […]
Superstition can’t be exorcised just by simply turning off the God switch
guardian: Over in the vicarage, my teenage girls are tearing the place down getting ready for Halloween. The younger one is thinking about a zombie bride look and has drawn […]
7 Underrated Attractive Qualities in a Woman
Attraction can be a seemingly complex topic. Just what is it exactly what makes someone attractive? Why do certain people find certain things attractive, while other people don’t? How important is attraction in the realm of relationships – do you get to know someone til they become attractive, or do […]
How to keep your brain healthy
theguardian: by Ann Robinson — A brain ready for dissection. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Guardian Neuroscience research got a huge boost last week with news of Professor John O’Keefe’s Nobel prize for work on the “brain’s internal GPS system”. It is an exciting new part of the giant jigsaw puzzle of our brain […]
Nobel Prize for the brain’s GPS discovery
BBC.com: by James Gallagher — Edvard Moser, John O’Keefe and May-Britt Moser share the Nobel Prize The Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine has been awarded to three scientists who discovered the brain’s “GPS system”. UK-based researcher Prof John O’Keefe as well as May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser share the […]
Brain 'can be trained to prefer healthy food'
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US. Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction […]
Brain ‘can be trained to prefer healthy food’
The brain can be trained to prefer healthy food over unhealthy high-calorie foods, using a diet which does not leave people hungry, suggests a study from the US. Scientists from Tufts University say food addictions can be changed in this way even if they are well-established. They scanned the addiction […]
Brain Exercises: 10 Ways To Get A Sharper, Active Noodle
Huff Post: by Arti Patel — It may start to feel like your brain is slowing down, that you’re becoming forgetful or are just unable to solve word puzzles as quickly as you used to. While we can’t reverse the process of aging, health experts say it’s never too late […]
Lack of Sleep leads to Brain Damage
Source: BBC Health Sleep loss may be more serious than previously thought, causing a permanent loss of brain cells, research suggests. In mice, prolonged lack of sleep led to 25% of certain brain cells dying, according to a study in The Journal of Neuroscience. If the same is true in humans, […]