- A new test can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease from a brain scan. But as clinicians are asking, to what end?
- Dyslexia might stem from a communication breakdown between the auditory and speech centers of the brain.
- A traumatic experience can continue to elicit fear two generations later—at least in mice.
- A new study suggests that gut bacteria can play a role in autism.
- The attractiveness of cheerleaders is in part a visual illusion. We tend to find people in a group more beautiful than a solo operator.
- If we see someone in the nude, we tend to judge that person as more sensitive to experiences but less in control than a clad individual.
- The more friends you have, the more your brain changes to accommodate your expanding network.
- Think you're good at multitasking? If so, you might actually be among the worst.
- People will racially discriminate even at a personal price, a new study shows.
- A failure to grow new neurons and synapses, the junctions at which neurons connect, might cause depression, according to an emerging theory.
- Need to muster some gumption? Stimulating a very specific part of the brain with electricity can trigger "the will to persevere."
- Brain scans are now being used in the courtroom to argue that a defendant was not fully conscious at the time of a crime.
- Your brain uses distinct systems to process different kinds of time.
