Foreign accent syndrome is caused by brain damage. In the past few days, a great deal of media attention has been paid to Leanne Rowe, ... Read More

Are you really at risk of attack by someone with schizophrenia? A violent attack by someone who is mentally ill quickly grabs the headl... Read More

Body Dysmorphic Disorder puts ugly in the brain of the beholder When people think of mental problems related to body image, often the fir... Read More

 Stress influences sperm – and may affect the offspring's brain development For the first time, researchers have found that stress c... Read More

Twitter for the young narcissists, Facebook for the adults According to a new study published by researchers at the University of Michiga... Read More

We learn to use brain-computer interfaces in the same way we learn to ride a bike. The patterns of brain activity people use to learn to m... Read More

According to the headlines: "Brain stimulation promises “long-lasting” maths boost" "Mild electric shocks to brain may help st... Read More

Narcists, machiavellianists and psychopaths impress Are we attracted to people we like? Not necessarily. Good character isn't always se... Read More

It's all about social connections Happy people are usually healthy people. But how do happy people get healthy? And which came first; the h... Read More

True or false: Gaining weight may influence your character It’s not only that people gain weight because they are bad at resisting th... Read More

Do smart people see a different world? In order to think about what we see, we first need to pick out the relevant stimuli. And since... Read More

If education and common-sense cannot convince you on how stupid racism is, maybe science can do the job for you. Findings taken from num... Read More

Backwards walking played in reverse, is that so complicated? Israeli movie maker Messe Kopp wanted to trick our minds. With this simple... Read More

Who enjoys the library? Survey says: parents! In the aftermath of the digital revolution where seemingly everything is at your figure t... Read More

Some people seem hard wired for math, while others do not. Back in 1999 neuropsychologist Brian Butterworth tackled the relationship b... Read More

They were brilliant, they were unique, they were children. Throughout history there have been children who appear and are fantastically... Read More

Exploring new areas shapes the brain Some feel the need to explore more than others. This apparently random characteristic really makes ... Read More

Why does music sound so much better when cannabis is involved? When you bring up the subject of listening to music while stoned, you ge... Read More

Study reveals contra-intuitive solution to running out of time All the technology we invented to help increase our spare time didn't re... Read More

Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little By the time ... Read More

The UK is most moody in the morning, study finds Researchers have mapped the moods of Twitter users from the UK and found that they fol... Read More

Does looking to the right mean you're not telling the truth? It's an extensively explained and very attractive idea that we can discover t... Read More

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The idea of a electronic brain prosthesis is not science fiction anymore. It is complicated. It is still in its early phases. And it w... Read More

Linking Power, Moral Clarity and Tendency to Punish Harshly Often, employees are shocked by what they think is a supervisor’s severe reac... Read More

Does checking the mate make you smarter? It is one of those assumptions because a game is so complex and it is enjoyed but what we perc... Read More

What does facial hair say about you? It’s not quite clear why human males continue to have facial hair. There are other ways to keep warm... Read More

The male biological clock. There is a long running assumption in western society that wanting to have children and being sad about not ... Read More

The brain has intricate ways to store and retrieve -- which can go wrong We talk a lot about thinking, memory and the brain in this magazin... Read More

Depressed students increase the chances of friends to also get depressed If you're vulnerable to depression it doesn't necessarily mean tha... Read More

What happens in your brain when you can't recall something you know. It happens mostly with names: you recall a person, can perfectly i... Read More

Brain adapts to congenital writing defect Usually, the human eye takes in signals that are processed by both sides of the brain. What’s r... Read More

Biologists developed way to make the brain see-through Until now we were able to use scans (like the one pictured on the left) to have a qu... Read More

Japanese scientists just took the first step. Have you ever been able to perfectly tell what you dreamt last night? Your dreams probabl... Read More

Out of all the beloved apes in history, these may be the most important. Last week one of the most beloved zoo gorillas in the world, Patty... Read More

We have smart genes--the rest is up to us A lot of people study intelligence, or at least take it for granted. We speak, listen (sometimes... Read More