How Your Brain Tells You to Move
A team of neuroscientists has revealed what happens in our brain when we spontaneously start moving. THE ESSENTIAL Beginning in ...
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Smell is influenced by the other senses
Our sense of smell is, like that of sight, markedly affected by how we process other sensory signals, neuroscience researchers ...
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Intermittent fasting could help slow Alzheimer’s disease according to a neuroscience professor
© Shutterstock / Nok Lek Travel Lifestyle80% of people with Alzheimer's disease experience disruption to the body's circadian rhythm, the ...
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TOC: a cerebral chemical imbalance in question?
British neuroscientists have identified a neurochemical imbalance in regions of the frontal lobes in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). THE ...
Read moreHow to manage your stress with Neuroscience?
Some practical health-tools are able to provide solutions to soften the impact of emotional shocks on the nervous system. Let's ...
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Can neuroscience help footballers develop their team spirit?
A scientific institute and a Japanese football club are launching a year-long project to measure and analyze synchronization levels between ...
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What part of our brain manages our level of empathy?
The inferior parietal lobe manages different functions including the ability to concentrate, language processing and social interaction, making it a ...
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Well-being: look in the mirror to get better!
Although looking in the mirror may not seem very rewarding, it would cause the brain to release dopamine, the “feel ...
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Maintaining good blood pressure for a healthy brain
Keeping a healthy blood pressure makes it possible to have a brain at a younger physiological age than the actual ...
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Brain: how anxiety leads to pessimism
Some neurons would disrupt decision-making in anxious people. THE ESSENTIAL People with anxiety have a stronger than normal desire to ...
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From birth, we can predict the ability to learn different languages
The composition of brain matter at birth would be linked to the degree of language skills of children at five ...
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Brain: it would simultaneously process sounds and speech
Contrary to a long-held theory, the brain processes sounds and speech simultaneously. THE ESSENTIAL The two regions of the brain ...
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Brain: beige fat protects against dementia
Beige fat would reduce the inflammation associated with white fat and thus offer protection against dementia. THE ESSENTIAL Without beige ...
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Brain: having a good listener prevents cognitive decline
Having someone to rely on and who lends an attentive ear is associated with greater cognitive resilience and helps to ...
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Brain: how emotions affect our memory
In front of a film or a series, the scenes that leave the most traces in the memories are those ...
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How Lack of Sleep Affects Memory
Sleep deprivation would increase the activity of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus, an area of the brain essential for navigation, ...
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Motivation: it all depends on how our brain manages fatigue
A first fatigue born in the execution of a task but can disappear after a short rest but, over time, ...
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Why we can be amazed by a landscape
Signals detected in the visual areas of the brain could reflect an elementary and early form of perception of beauty. ...
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Why do we see faces everywhere?
The human brain seems wired to see human faces where there are none, whether in clouds, the moon or even ...
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Brain: what neurons make us curious?
A new brain circuit underlying curiosity and novelty-seeking behavior has been identified in the “uncertain zone” of the brain. THE ...
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Brain: what happens when two people make music together?
Making music together, singing or playing an instrument, would have many benefits on the human brain. THE ESSENTIAL When individuals ...
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Can intelligence be measured in the pupils?
The larger the pupils, the higher the cognitive abilities. THE ESSENTIAL The relationship between pupil size and cognitive abilities is ...
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No, the brain is not equipped with the “automatic driving” option!
The brain would not make a decision until one is aware of it, providing an argument for the idea of ...
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Why some of our dreams are so weird
The strangeness of our dreams would be a way for our brain to better adapt to everyday life situations. THE ...
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Penalties: to score a penalty, it is better to have short ideas!
Penalty takers tend to be too focused on the possible consequences of a miss which leads to disturbed brain activity ...
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The brain prefers to add and add rather than subtract and delete
When it comes to solving a problem, our brain is innately tempted to find solutions by adding new elements even ...
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Concentration: how our brain manages what distracts us
When performing a task and a distraction appears, the brain is able to suppress the incoming information to focus on ...
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Confined for 40 days in a cave without light and without a clock: the participants leave tomorrow
Since March 14, 15 volunteers have lived in the longest cave in Europe, in Ariège, without natural light or watches ...
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Vitamin A: an important cognitive benefit
Retinoic acid, a natural derivative of vitamin A, improves synaptic health and neuronal connectivity. THE ESSENTIAL Researchers have found that ...
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Why Spanking Harms Children’s Brain Development
According to a new study, spanking your child alters the functioning of his prefrontal cortex, which makes him more likely ...
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