Job satisfaction in your late 20s and 30s has a link to overall health in your early 40s, according to a new nationwide study.
While job satisfaction had some impact on physical health, its effect was particularly strong for mental...
The brain of more intelligent people is 'wired' differently from the brain of people with less intelligence, new research finds.
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Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions....
Neurons in the human brain receive electrical signals from thousands of other cells, and long neural extensions called dendrites play a critical role in incorporating all of that information so the cells can respond appropriately.
Using hard-to-obtain samples of human...
These are skull casts from human evolution. Left to right: Australopithecus afarensis, Homo habilis, Homo ergaster, Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis.Credit: Roger Seymour. Casts photographed in the South Australian Museum.
A University of Adelaide-led project has overturned the theory that...
A new study shows that the effects of vibrations produced by horses during horse-riding lead to the activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which improves learning in children. Image credit:Flickr/Matthew McCullough
Recent research published in Frontiers in Public Health shows...
The game used in the experiments, modified to monitor time and mistakes.Credit: Image courtesy of Imperial College London
Mozart may enhance a man's performance in board games -- while AC/DC may hinder their chances, according to new research.
The scientists behind...
Humans, like other animals, possess an enormous learning capacity that allows for the apprehension of new sensory information to master new skills or to adapt to an ever-changing environment. However, many of the mechanisms that enable people to learn...
A team of sleep researchers at the University of California, Riverside, led by psychology professor Sara C. Mednick, has found that the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for control of bodily functions not consciously directed (such as breathing,...
The suicide rate among people with epilepsy is 22 percent higher than the general population, according to a new study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), published in Epilepsy & Behavior.
Suicide is one of the...
Current sleep staging practice consists of visual analysis of 30-second segments of raw EEG wave forms (top) and subjective categorization into sleep stages to create a hypnogram (middle), which is used for many clinical analyses. The multitaper spectrogram (bottom)...
When people take the psychedelic drug LSD, they sometimes feel as though the boundary that separates them from the rest of the world has dissolved. Now, the first functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI) of people's brains while on LSD...
