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Mandarin makes you more musical - and at a much earlier age than previously thought. That's the suggestion of a new study from the University of California San Diego. But hold on there, overachiever parents, don't'...
Although commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, healthy people can also have visual hallucinations after taking drugs, being sleep deprived or suffering migraines. Credit: Flickr/Guy Mayer
A new method for inducing visual hallucinations in healthy individuals could lead to new treatments...
new research from Duke University suggests the Oxytocin may also support spirituality. Credit: © wiertz / Flickr
'Love hormone' gives greater sense of spirituality than a placebo
Oxytocin has been dubbed the "love hormone" for its role promoting social bonding, altruism...
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We use others' eyes - whether they're widened or narrowed - to infer emotional states, and the inferences we make align with the optical function of those expressions, according to new research published in Psychological...
A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed by researchers at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham and the Wellcome...
A recording site (grey dot) in a brain region responsible for social interaction showed clear differences in neural activity when the subject was talking to the life partner (green curve) vs. the physician (blue curve).
Human speech comes in countless...
Health-care workers treating soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) report that some soldiers' partners and family members display symptoms of PTSD despite never serving in the military. A research study by scientists at the University of Calgary may help...
A new research investigated the effect of unconscious arousal on how confident participants felt about what they were seeing when completing a simple task.Image Credit: Flickr/draconianrain
A new study from UCL researchers finds that subtle, unconscious increases in arousal --...
A detailed new map by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis lays out the landscape of the cerebral cortex -- the outermost layer of the brain and the dominant structure involved in sensory perception and...
When we train the reaching for and grasping of objects, we also train our brain. In other words, this action brings about changes in the connections of a certain neuronal population in the red nucleus, a region of the...
A magnified image of a mouse cerebellar section shows multiple layers. New research shows this part of the brain may be a target for treating autism through brain stimulation.
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Scientists are examining the feasibility of treating autistic children with...
