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Deep Sleep, Deep Effects: The Dangers of Insufficient Sleep
Studying sleep’s profound and extensive effects on brain function (read more)
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Count Yourself Confident! Self-Esteem in Numbers
Discovered: The equation that can map self esteem in the brain (read more)
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Meh…Zzz. Why Do We Fall Asleep When We’re Bored?
Explaining our inescapable desire to sleep in boring situations (read more)
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Can a Tablet Teach Kids to Juggle?
Tablets can teach kids to solve physical puzzles (read more)
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Why Is Yawning Contagious?
Yawning – why is it so contagious and why should it matter? (read more)
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Feel-Good Food: Eating Triggers Endorphins
Eating triggers endorphin release in the brain (read more)
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Alcohol Boosts Recall (and, Usually, Regret)
Alcohol boosts recall of earlier learning (read more)
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Is Anxiety Stopping You Sleeping? Are You Sure? Really? Really?
The secret connection between anxiety and sleep (read more)
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Forewarned is Forearmed: Vulnerability to Psychosis and How to Detect It
Vulnerability to psychosis: New methods show how to detect it (read more)
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Visceral Viewing: Screenwriting for the Human Brain(s)
Effective screenwriters not only aim for psychological effect – they seek to create ‘visceral viewing’. (read more)
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Let Me Think, But Not Much: Screenwriting and the Brain(s)
100 Problems, but as long as they’re someone else’s, we’re locked to our seats. (read more)
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Shake Your Inner Monkey: Movie Screenwriting and The Limbic Brain
Sex, Politics, Celebrity: What’s on your monkey mind? (read more)
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Itchyness and Pain: You Know the Difference, But Does Your Body?
Itch neurons play a role in managing pain (read more)
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Neurocinematic Testing – The Applications
We know that certain stimuli can provoke certain reactions. How can we use that knowledge though? (read more)
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Twitchy Disco: The Effects of Serotonin on Motivation
More serotonin = less motivation? It depends on the circumstances (read more)
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How Music Triggers the Brain’s Own Opioids
McGill scientists show brain’s own opioids involved in musical pleasure (read more)
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Giggle Your Way to a Flatter Tummy: Serotonin and Fat Burning
TSRI scientists find brain hormone that triggers fat burning (read more)
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The Mechanics of Stuttering (and the beginnings of a cure)
Stuttering linked to reduced blood flow in area of brain associated with language (read more)
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How to Cope With Your Emotional Hangover
Is there such a thing as an emotional hangover? NYU researchers find that there is (read more)
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Synchronous Oscillations: Are You Actually Awake?
Portions of the brain fall asleep and wake back up all the time (read more)
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Musical Training Combats ADHD in Kids
Musical training creates new brain connections in children (read more)
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Earworms: A Guide to Making Them, And Getting Rid of Them
Why some songs get stuck in your head (read more)
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‘Middle England’ faces lowest psychosis risk
hite, middle class, older. Psychosis and its attendent conditions are a lower risk for those who fit into the ‘Middle England’ grouping. So when it comes to excuses for voting Brexit, ‘the voices told me (read more)
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Rosetta Stoned: Decyphering the Primary Cannabis Receptor
Structure of primary cannabinoid receptor is revealed (read more)
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Can You Boost Your Brain With a Battery? With tDCS, Hells Yeah!
Electrifying brain circuits may decrease depressive symptoms and chronic pain (read more)
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Can You Smell What it Looks Like? How Visuals Disrupt Memory
A visual nudge can disrupt recall of what things look like (read more)
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Aphex Fin. Zoologists Reveal the Only Other Animal That Can Keep a Beat
Ronan the sea-lion: Best beat-keeper in the animal kingdom (read more)
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Who Ate All The Pisces? The Benefits of Fish Oil
Why some fat can help or hinder your diet, and your brain (read more)
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Are You Depressive, Positive, or Both? Cognitive Bias Explains the Link
Same genes could make us prone to both happiness and depression (read more)
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How We Hear (and it’s Not All in the Ear)
Study shows auditory cortex of hearing and deaf people are nearly identical (read more)