Rappler's latest stories on neuroscience
A neuroscientist's tips for a new year tuneup for your brain
Shrink those distorting brain bubbles and build realistic connections to enrich life’s simple pleasures
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Understanding 'evil'
Psychopaths blatantly disregard other people's welfare and are single-minded as to what they want for just themselves. Why do they do this?
Why Google wants to think more like you and less like a machine
There are nuances to human thinking that Google is still trying to replicate
When the brain signals 'love'
What do the brains of faithful lovers look like?
What could make you more honest?
Something could make you lie less and it is not a serum
What happens to your brain when you're on vacation?
Our mind wanders and this is what keeps us sane and ironically what keeps us focused
Half a believer
Some scientific adventures on the subject of morality and belief
Male brains 'overwhelmed' in multitasking test – study
A study says a tricky brain teaser throws off men s walking gait but leaves most women unfazed reopening an age old debate about mental gender differences
Your brain has its own World Wide Web of words
[Science Solitaire] To say that language is a mere accessory is like saying your head is just something nature grabbed for you to wear but that you would be perfectly fine walking around headless
Scientists unveil detailed brain map
In the process they discovered nearly 100 previously unreported regions of the organ s cerebral cortex or grey matter
What happens when your brain gets tired?
[Science Solitaire] How did scientists know that the brain gets tired?
Tickling the brain can boost immunity – study
The immune boosting information emanated from a part of the brain called the ventral tegmental area home to a reward system powered by the mood modifying chemical dopamine
The science of Co’s
[Science Solitaire] What could be happening in our brains when we are conversing or cooperating with others?
Are (political) oldies really 'goodies'?
[Science Solitaire] Here are 3 things that are generally happening in the brains of older people that distinguish them from the brains of younger ones
2015 top science stories: Edited genes, reusable rockets, water on Mars
Within Earth and beyond what are the most important and intriguing stories in science from the previous 12 months? We ask the Mind Movers of The Mind Museum
The seat of happiness?
[Science Solitaire] What could be that one common thing we all share about happiness?
The teenage clock
[Science Solitaire] Despite the seemingly adult ish appearance behind the teenage skull is another story
A king’s concussion and brain science
[Science Solitaire] From the vistas literally culled from a king’s troubled head over 400 years ago the idea that our brains can suffer serious damage even if the bone protecting it remains intact is now a routine diagnostic precaution
Would you hack your brain this way?
[Science Solitaire] What do you do to be able to think better?
The case of the missing teenage brain
[Science Solitaire] Why do teenagers generally have very unique self defeating solutions to their own self formulated problems?
Rappler Talk: Creativity and the human mind
Is there a relationship between creativity genius and mental illness? Watch this interview with neuroscientist Dr Nancy Andreasen to find out
The homing hormone
[Science Solitaire] I like it when I find stories of our inner biology that parallel our emotional lives
Once more, with feelings: Multi-tasking will make you dumb
[Science Solitaire] Multi tasking gives you a double whammy: you get to cultivate your inner moron and worse you get to love doing it
Nobel Science 2014: the way we 'where,' the way we see
[Science Solitaire] The Nobel winners for science this year revolutionized the way we understand how we know where we are and the way we literally see
'It’s a sign!'
[Science Solitaire] If paranormal events were real why is it that not all people see them?
Working in shifts? Your brain could suffer loss of memory, power
The effects on brain function can be reversed the researchers say but this may take at least 5 years
12 things you should know about the brain
[Science Solitaire] Here is a list that could be useful in getting to know your own brain
Cocoa clue to reversing memory loss
Scientists say bioactive ingredients found in cocoa sharply reverse age related memory decline
Can you inherit fear?
[Science Solitaire] If you fear something but cannot remember having had any experience that could have caused that there may be an explanation
Meditation changes your brain
[Science Solitaire] Meditation used to be the exclusive province of robed and hooded men enacting an ancient tradition Now science has joined them
Nobel shows importance of location, location, location
Generations of scientists have pored over a seemingly basic but ultimately complex skill: how are humans able to find their way from one spot to another?
Trio win Nobel medicine prize for brain's 'GPS'
UPDATED This year s laureates have discovered a positioning system an inner GPS in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space the jury says
The 'mind readers'
[Science Solitaire] What kind of mind reading power do you want to have?
Ig Nobels 2014: Aha-ha-ha-ha moments
[Science Solitaire] If you thought science was just all about Aha moments then you only have to be reminded that there is such a thing as the Ig Nobel Prizes
Why your favorite song takes you down memory lane
Listening to a favorite song boosts activity in the adjoining hippocampus a region responsible for memory and socially linked emotions
Neuroscientists say it's possible to overwrite bad memories
Emotions connected to memories can be rewritten making bad events in the past seem better and good things appear worse scientists say
A very strange way to finding your genius
[Science Solitaire] Sometimes brain injury can make a person an accidental genius Why and how does this happen?
Scientists closer to blood test for Alzheimer's
Scientists inch closer to developing a blood test that could detect the onset of Alzheimer s Disease
The lure of brands
[Science Solitaire] How do advertisements play with our minds to get us to buy products?
Scientists reverse memory loss in mice with Alzheimer's
The gene therapy study is hoped to lead to the development of new drugs to treat the incurable disease
Love is a hormonal conga
[Science Solitaire] When in love you are both a victim and a volunteer Here s why
Japan study looks to big data for signs of Alzheimer's
Researchers are hoping to develop an epoch making method to find predictors of brain disorder by analyzing massive amounts of data with new software
'Purpose' could save our brains
[Science Solitaire] Would having a purpose in your life prevent you from literally losing your brain cells to Alzheimer’s disease as you age?
Rival promoters, politicos back brain injury study
The promoters have agreed to contribute 600 000 to keep the study funded in addition to the 2 million the Cleveland Clinic has already spent
Caffeine stirs memory – study
A team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore Maryland found that caffeine enhances certain memories for at least a day after they were formed
Men and women's brains are wired differently – study
A new study looking at the neural wiring of the male and female brain has concluded that there may be some truth to commonly held beliefs about what makes men and women tick
Watching sport can make you fitter – study
Research: When a person watches a first person video of someone else running heart rate respiration skin blood flow and sweat release all increased
Swiss scientists make microchips that mimic the brain
Researchers in Switzerland say they have made microchips that imitate the way our brains process information
#WSF13 in PH: Brain, consciousness and computers
What goes on inside our brains and can technology duplicate it? Two sessions at the World Science Festival dissect these topics
