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Medical Xpress / Lonely people can feel their heartbeat clearly like everyone else, but their brains respond differently
For a long time, psychologists have described loneliness as the discomfort that comes from wanting more social connection than we feel we have, but there is more nuance to loneliness. Scientists are increasingly finding that ...
Tech Xplore / When expressive humanoid robots are awkward, people become wary
People become more suspicious of a humanoid robot that makes errors, especially when the robot is an expressive conversation partner.
Medical Xpress / Study reveals prefrontal cortex can hinder learning more efficient behaviors
The prefrontal cortex, a brain region long associated with learning more flexible behaviors, can sometimes block the ability to think outside the box, a new study in mice shows. The finding by biologists at Emory University ...
Medical Xpress / How your conscious and unconscious mind interact
Have you ever heard the phrase "you only use 10% of your brain"? In reality, there is no way to measure consciousness in percentage terms—partly because the brain has no static baseline.
Medical Xpress / Soy lysolecithin counters high-salt diet-induced hypertension and cognitive impairment
High-salt (HS) intake is a major global health concern, closely linked to hypertension and growing evidence of cognitive and emotional decline. Although salt is a routine part of daily diets, long-term overconsumption can ...
Phys.org / Students are anxious—and it's no surprise, since we are teaching them to be that way
Temporary anxiety can often surface before the first day of school. Sometimes, that can help kids get in the right mindset for a big day. But when anxiety becomes a constant feature of children's and teenagers' days, that ...
Medical Xpress / Q&A: What I found when I scanned the brains of kids creating tunes on piano
Research shows that improvisation and creativity are good for the brain. In an episode of the Greater Good Science Center's "Science of Happiness" podcast, host Shuka Kalantari talked to Karen Barrett about what happens in ...
Medical Xpress / A skill becomes automatic as the brain rewires itself to bypass its own bottleneck, new study suggests
Riding a bike, reading a book or folding laundry while watching TV can feel effortless, almost like your brain does it on autopilot. This ease comes from repetition, built through practicing the same task again and again. ...
Medical Xpress / Two neural pathways reveal why habits form and vary in intensity
Habit formation describes the repeated performance of a behavior until it becomes routine: in other words, the shift from deliberate to automatic decision-making. This concept is often invoked as a way to improve one's life ...
Phys.org / When a teenager makes the 'stupid choice,' their brain is working exactly as designed
When an adult refuses to let an injustice pass—stands up to a bully or asserts their rights—we call it principle. When a 15-year-old retaliates to an insult thrown in a school corridor, risking detention, we call it a failure ...
Medical Xpress / Blurred genome boundaries emerge as a new layer of Alzheimer's biology
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the University of Washington have shed new light on Alzheimer's disease that could point to new ...
Medical Xpress / Aspirin reverses diet-driven depression-like behavior in mice
Depression is among the most common psychiatric disorders, estimated to affect between 280 million and 332 million people worldwide. This disorder is characterized by persistent sadness and hopelessness, low energy, a loss ...
