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Buff Your Brain
The Daily Beast: Brain training to sharpen memory. Aerobic exercise to preserve gray matter. Meditation to hone connections between reason and emotion. It all sounds great, but there’s something that has long bothered us about
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Emotional Expression: The Brain and the Face
The Facial Emotion Expression Lab (FEELab) at the University Fernando Pessoa Health Sciences School on behalf of his Head, Professor Freitas-Magalhaes is in the process of preparing the edited volume entitled “Emotional Expression: The Brain
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Nordwärts!
bild der wissenschaft: Die interne Landkarte des Hirns ist nach Norden ausgerichtet Deutsche Forscher sind dem System auf die Spur gekommen, wie das Gehirn die räumliche Struktur einer vertrauten Umgebung verarbeitet: Offenbar ist der Anhaltspunkt
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Why make New Year resolutions if genes and environment decide our behaviour rather than free will?
Irish Times: THE NEW YEAR is a time for resolutions. You promise to take up jogging, spend more time with friends, do good works or maybe smile a little more frequently. But are you fundamentally
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Winnie-the-Pooh and the Pervasiveness of Egocentric Bias: Why We Are All THAT Sort of Bear
Scientific American: This past week, Winnie-the-Pooh just wouldn’t let me go. Please write about me, he kept whining. And when I told him I’d already written about him last week, he just looked confused. So
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Pregnancy May Change Mom’s Brain For Good
LiveScience: Time in the womb is obviously important for the development of the fetal brain. But pregnancy is also a time for changes in Mom’s brain — changes that may prepare women to become better