Neuroscience

Your brain is still you. Andrew Mason, CC BY By Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Duke University Imagine that Brian promises to drive you to the airport but never shows up, and you miss your flight. When…

All the better for hearing you with. Boris Roessler/EPA By Victoria Ratcliffe, University of Sussex and David Reby, University of Sussex Sometimes it may seem like your dog doesn’t want to listen.…

There are too many factors and combinations of genetic traits to have any definitive cause of autism today, along with a wide range of diagnoses that add to the pool, but a new analysis has found…

A study has found that elite Kenyan athletes have greater brain oxygenation during periods of maximum physical effort, which contributes to their success in long-distance races. Dr. Jordan Santos-…

The chemical messenger dopamine, colloquially called the 'happiness hormone', is important outside social psychology articles on Valentine's Day also; it has been linked to motivation and motor…

Your memory can play tricks on you. Shutterstock By Catherine Loveday, University of Westminster Six weeks ago I arrived back in London after my first trip to Australia. It felt considerably colder…

It's not in the bones, but it might not be in the brain either. X-ray image by Shutterstock By Andreas Goebel, University of Liverpool One in five of us has been experiencing chronic pain over the…

Imagine we gave you three letters, say G, C and D. Then we gave you a name to associate to some combination of those three letters. How many could you recall on command? Guitarists in cover bands do…

Neurons - cells in the brain that communicate chemical and electrical information - belong to one of two groups, inhibitory or excitatory. Much is known about excitatory neurons but not so much for…

A new study finds that people of 1914 may have had worse memory than people of 1814. The reason is partially hydrogenated oil - trans fats - that became a cheaper, healthier replacement for the…