Neuroscience
We still have so much to learn about the brain. Keep up with the latest news, from psychology to machine learning.
Some of these cures are pretty wild, and doctors claim they work.
“We can take someone’s memory … and we can pull it out from their brains.”
Researchers have looked into many of them. Here’s what they found.
I have never visualized anything in my entire life. I can’t “see” my father’s face or a bouncing blue ball, my childhood bedroom or the run I went on 10 minutes ago. I’m 30 years old, and I never knew a human could do any of this.
I’m not ashamed of having bipolar disorder, but I don’t want to go out of my way to tell people. I worry. Will this person not want to work with me anymore? Will they treat me differently? Will they think I’m unreliable?
The new science of why people procrastinate — and how to stop.
It’s been 20 years since my mother died of early onset, or younger onset, Alzheimer’s disease. She was 53. I was 17. Losing her — and realizing that I, too, could develop the disease — has haunted me ever since.
Psychiatric hospitals are legally obligated to treat suicidal patients — even if the patient’s funding runs dry — for as long as it takes for the patient to stabilize. But many don’t, and the consequences can be lethal.
The new science of why we put things off — and how to stop.
Laura and John Arnold, a Houston couple, have become the Medicis for “research integrity.”
Why mindlessly following automated directions could be a problem.
In leaked emails, executives admitted they took “most of the bite” out of the film.
In MRI scans, meditators’ brains look physically different.
A new center at Stanford is aimed at tackling bad neuroscience.
Fun movie. Bad metaphysics.
See how your brain gets tricked by spinning seams.
What the world’s most common optical illusion reveals about the human mind.
7 things neuroscientists have learned from climaxes inside MRI machines.
To a brain scanner, a person in love looks like someone who’s addicted to drugs.
It’s called deep brain stimulation — and doctors don’t know exactly how it works
Inherited genes, random mutations, and environmental factors.
#2: Your sense of touch gets worse as you age.
This new experiment shows that the screen’s light delayed sleep and made people groggier in the morning, too.
#1: We seem to be doing more swearing than ever
There are 85 billion neurons in the human brain with 100 trillion connections between them. Here’s how scientists are creating the ultimate brain atlas.
This woman is training psychopaths to be less psychopathic.
It’s not your fault. It’s biology.
Research suggests a later start could lead to better sleep — and health.
Hey USA, you’re doing it wrong.
How much can the natural capabilities of the body and mind be extended?
The microbes in our guts may be messing with us
You can retrain your brain to make travel less terrible.
New treatments like gene therapy, stem-cell therapy, and even bionic implants are already starting to restore some patients’ sight.
This important part was first described in 1881. Here’s how it got lost.
How to find out how much you’re actually sleeping — and how to improve it.
Some of these tips are remarkably easy.
Researchers have already built exoskeletons for super strength and artificial eyes that let the blind see.