Even now, that same emotional intensity drives modern fans after major wins or losses to spend heavily after big victories or ...

As one of the abstract styles developing in the 1960s, Optical illusion (or Op) Art features games of lines and geometric ...

A new study investigated whether patients with a rare condition in which major internal organs are reversed from their normal ...

Cutting-edge depression treatments utilize cognitive control by detecting depression-linked activity in one area of the brain ...

Neuroscientist Lucy L. Brown, Ph. D., and the late biological anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., are the writing team behind ...

Researchers have identified a remarkably small but critical piece of genetic code that helps determine how brain cells connect, communicate, and function. The discovery not only deepens our ...

A new study to be presented at the SLEEP 2025 annual meeting quantifies the amount of sleep loss experienced by first-time ...

A scientific team from the Mind, Brain, and Behavior Research Center at the University of Granada (UGR) is studying the human difficulties that prevent people from following healthy lifestyles.

THE PLACEBO effect is a well-known example of the brain’s power over the body, allowing people who are poorly or in pain to improve if they are led to believe they are being treated. The opposite, ...

In a new co-authored book, Professor and Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth A. Kensinger points out some surprising facts about how memories work Explaining the science behind memory and ...

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This research aims to improve assistive robotics for dyspraxia, focusing on real-time adaptation to individual needs through advanced mathematical modeling.