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Neuroscience

  1. science of us
    I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being“Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why?
    By Edith Zimmerman
  2. neuroscience
    When Octopuses Roll on Molly, They Get Happy and Cuddly Just Like UsTheir behavior on the drug could provide insight on the workings of the human brain, and potentially help treat anxiety disorders.
    By Jessica Boddy
  3. Your Brain Treats a Blink Like a Tiny NapTime slows down when your eyes are closed.
    By Alexandra Ossola
  4. science of us
    Where Empathy Lives in the BrainA new study looks at the neurological changes that take place as kids learn to imagine what others are thinking.
    By Deepa Padmanaban
  5. neuroscience
    Here’s the Biggest Study Yet on the Differences Between Male and Female BrainsIt’s becoming clearer and clearer that there are many robust differences between male and female brains — and also lots of overlap.
    By Jesse Singal
  6. science of us
    Your Brain Is Built to Make You Good at GossipKnowing the details of others’ lives is a big part of what makes us human.
    By Deepa Padmanaban
  7. hearing
    Your Brain Plays a Cool Trick to Help You Hear in Noisy PlacesIt’s called “perceptual restoration,” and you don’t even know when it’s happening.
    By Cari Romm
  8. Museums Are Using Neuroscientists to Help People Understand Art“Our brains are designed to respond to change, diversity, and motion.”
    By Cari Romm
  9. memory
    How the Brains of ‘Memory Athletes’ Are DifferentAs is so often the case in neuroscience, it has to do with connections between different brain areas.
    By Jesse Singal
  10. neuroscience
    Why Some Neuroscientists Are Fed Up With NeuroscienceIn a new article, five neuroscientists argue that their field has grown too enamored with flashy toys that don’t really teach us anything.
    By Jesse Singal
  11. neuroscience
    Brain Scans Reveal 4 ‘Biotypes’ of DepressionFiguring out the neural machinery that underlies the condition.
    By Drake Baer
  12. Music Tickles the Same Brain System As Sex and DrugsWhich may be why it appears in every human culture.
    By Drake Baer
  13. Emotions Can Help You Remember Unrelated Things, TooYou remember what you feel.
    By Drake Baer
  14. Why Your Brain Becomes More Flexible After Working OutIt takes the foot off the brakes of your brain.
    By Drake Baer
  15. body and brain
    Knowing Your Actual, Literal Heart Reduces Anxiety and Betters DecisionsBecause emotion is sensational.
    By Drake Baer
  16. The Brains of Neurotic People Literally Look DifferentA new study found a link between your personality and the wrinkles in your brain.
    By Cari Romm
  17. science of us
    Here’s What Happens in Your Brain When Your Life Flashes Before Your EyesNew research on the psychology of near-death experiences.
    By Philip Jaekl
  18. neuroscience
    Is the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer?Mental meanderings are “the baseline state of you as a cognitive system” — is that a good thing?
    By Drake Baer
  19. neuroscience
    To Understand a Brain’s Age, Focus on More Than NeuronsGet to know your glia.
    By Drake Baer
  20. neuroscience
    Where Will Happens in the BrainThe neuroscience of cognitive control.
    By Drake Baer
  21. science of us
    Scientists Can Hack Your Brain to Help You Forget Your FearsIt’s a trickier form of exposure therapy.
    By Cari Romm
  22. science of us
    Here’s What Happens in Your Brain When You Hear a PunNew research explains the neuroscience of wordplay.
    By Cari Romm
  23. There’s a Form of Synesthesia Where People Literally See Time in Front of ThemIt’s called “calendar synesthesia,” and scientists are using it to understand how our brains process time and space.
    By Cari Romm
  24. This Is What Happens to Your Brain When You Get DrunkAdmit it, you’ve always wanted to know.
    By Christine Nguyen and Cait Munro
  25. Your Repressed Memories Are a Lot Closer Than You ThinkBeware.
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  26. This Common Misconception About the Brain Has Been Perpetuated by HollywoodFrom Lucy to Limitless.
    By Christine Nguyen and Cait Munro
  27. neuroscience
    What Happens in the Brains of Blind People Who Do MathThe brain is wonderfully plastic.
    By Jesse Singal
  28. What Happens in the Brain When You Create a False MemoryA new study explains.
    By Cari Romm
  29. science of us
    The Man Who Woke Up One Morning and Forgot How to ReadA strange case that settled a long, contentious debate about the brain.
    By Cari Romm
  30. Some Neuroscientists Scanned Sting’s Brain to Help Them Understand CreativityThey’ll be watching him.
    By Cari Romm
  31. Taking a Nap Is Like Letting Marie Kondo Loose in Your BrainScientists are one step closer to understanding why we sleep.
    By Cari Romm
  32. How Prolonged Exposure to Sweet, Blessed Silence Benefits the BrainEarly research is suggesting that quiet is more than just the absence of noise.
    By Melissa Dahl
  33. If You Want to Remember This, Go for a Run 4 Hours From NowA “comfortably hard” workout is a power-up for memory.
    By Drake Baer
  34. How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of RunningResearch in neuroscience shows a solid link between aerobic exercise and cognitive clarity.
    By Melissa Dahl
  35. brain stimulation
    How Zapping Your Brain With Electricity Might Make You Temporarily SmarterIn a new study, stimulating one part of the brain had an impressive effect.
    By Jesse Singal
  36. Appropriately Trippy Images Reveal What Brains on LSD Look LikeIt’s the first visualization of the brain on the psychedelic drug.
    By Melissa Dahl
  37. bad science
    No, Brain Waves Can’t Explain PoliticsA CNNMoney segment made it sound like “neural engagement” could explain Donald Trump. Nope.
    By Jesse Singal
  38. neuroscience
    Can Neuroscience Explain Why Some People Are Total Pushovers?A new study posits an intriguing link between “cognitive dissonance” and blindly following the crowd.
    By Christian Jarrett
  39. science of us animations
    Watch This Animation to Learn One Secret From Neuroscience for a Happy MarriageIt’s really not that hard. 
    By Abraham Riesman
  40. neuroscience
    Neuroscience and Free Will Are Rethinking Their DivorceA new finding casts an old one in a very different, more free-will-friendly light.
    By Christian Jarrett
  41. nutrition
    How Unhealthy Food Pulls You Toward ItIt has an almost ghostly attraction.
    By Christian Jarrett
  42. the brain
    A Neuroscientist Explains the Phrase ‘I Just Snapped’Insights from a new book about the brain’s “rage circuit.” 
    By Melissa Dahl
  43. gratitude
    How Expressing Gratitude Might Change Your BrainA new study suggests that even just an hour of focusing on gratitude might have long-lasting neurological effects.
    By Christian Jarrett
  44. neuroscience
    Can Brain Scans Predict Who Therapy Will Help?A new neuroscience study points the way to individually tailored mental-health treatments.
    By Christian Jarrett
  45. neuroscience
    How Popular People’s Brains Are DifferentThere seems to be a self-perpetuating aspect to being one of the cool kids.
    By Christian Jarrett
  46. gender
    Men’s and Women’s Brains Appear to Age DifferentlyA new study highlights why we shouldn’t assume talk of biological gender differences is always a gateway to misogyny.
    By Christian Jarrett
  47. embodied cognition
    Your Brain and Your Body Are One and the SameOr so argues a new book by a cognitive scientist.
    By Jack Meserve
  48. creativity
    A Writer-Slash-Neuroscientist on How Science Informs His FictionThere are more parallels between what happens in the lab and on the page than you might think. 
    By Melissa Dahl
  49. jealousy
    When Jealousy and Empathy Collide in the BrainA brain-imaging study suggests that we don’t mind that much when people above us in a hierarchy are in pain.
    By Christian Jarrett
  50. neuroscience
    Can Neuroscience Explain Why People Are Sexist?A Japanese study claims to have found the brain-scan imprint of misogynistic views.
    By Christian Jarrett
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