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Emotion
Emotion: is a conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.
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JUL 17, 2015Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 16, 2015Neuroscience
Why do some women seem to be insatiably hungry, especially at certain times? How does a complex relationship between gen ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 13, 2015Neuroscience
A group of scientists from various organizations has come together to help people to communicate, bringing together neur ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 02, 2015Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 23, 2015Cancer
Diagnosing cancer can be tricky. Often, patients undergo invasive procedures that yield unclear results, creating emotio ...Written By: Kerry EvansJUN 21, 2015Neuroscience
If researchers at Monash University in Australia are right, there are physical reasons why some people exhibit certain k ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 15, 2015Space & Astronomy
So, we want to send people to Mars someday. It will be dangerous. There will be numerous challenges and hazards: radiati ...Written By: Andrew J. DunlopJUN 12, 2015Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when the brain stops producing the neurotransmi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 11, 2015Neuroscience
It's not the amount of stress people have but how they handle it. Researchers at Penn State say that acting positively w ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 10, 2015Neuroscience
Nobel laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, recently apologized for the offensive comments he made about the "trouble with girls" in s ...JUN 10, 2015Plants & Animals
Human rights are a hot button issue in every government and in every country on the planet. Even here in the United Stat ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimJUN 04, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers, including a group at the Department of Psychology at the Technische Universitat Dresden in Germany, have wo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 04, 2015Neuroscience
Famous physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has told BBC in an interview that if he had one day become a burden to ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 01, 2015Neuroscience
New research at Michigan State University says that people who act impulsively in response to negative emotions are at g ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 23, 2015Neuroscience
Do you remember how nervous you were on your first date? Did you take a shot of alcohol to overcome the anxiety or did y ...Written By: Kareem HeslopMAY 18, 2015Neuroscience
In the course of his neurocriminology research, Adrian Raine of the University of Pennsylvania investigates the interpla ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 15, 2015Neuroscience
Consider the insurance salesman. She or he must overcome the preference in most people for immediate positive reinforcem ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 14, 2015Health & Medicine
What human trait is less understood than lonely perfectionism? It's unattainable, of course, for we are all human. It's ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 11, 2015Neuroscience
More than 100 million Americans are victims of chronic pain, resulting in annual costs of approximately $600 billion in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 11, 2015Technology
Much has been said about the human capacity to bond. John Bowlby's attachment theory is based on our primal need to bond ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 09, 2015Neuroscience
Images of soccer moms shuttling kids around in minivans could one day be as quaint as a Norman Rockwell painting. Concus ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 08, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Do you cringe at the sight of a snake or panic at the top of a roller coaster. Maybe it's in the genes.
An ar ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderMAY 04, 2015Neuroscience
New research supports the use of motivational interviewing-a technique described below-to treat addictive behaviors like ...Written By: Will HectorMAY 01, 2015Neuroscience
A study published in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and funded by the Meningitis Research Foundation indicates that c ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...
Researchers have gr ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 16, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do some women seem to be insatiably hungry, especially at certain times? How does a complex relationship between gen
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 13, 2015
Neuroscience
A group of scientists from various organizations has come together to help people to communicate, bringing together neur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 02, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do teenagers take big risks? While conventional wisdom put the blame on a dopamine rush, it now appears that "the ad
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 23, 2015
Cancer
Diagnosing cancer can be tricky. Often, patients undergo invasive procedures that yield unclear results, creating emotio
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
JUN 21, 2015
Neuroscience
If researchers at Monash University in Australia are right, there are physical reasons why some people exhibit certain k
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 15, 2015
Space & Astronomy
So, we want to send people to Mars someday. It will be dangerous. There will be numerous challenges and hazards: radiati
...
Written By:
Andrew J. Dunlop
JUN 12, 2015
Neuroscience
Parkinson's disease (PD), a neurodegenerative brain disorder that occurs when the brain stops producing the neurotransmi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 11, 2015
Neuroscience
It's not the amount of stress people have but how they handle it. Researchers at Penn State say that acting positively w
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 10, 2015
Neuroscience
Nobel laureate, Sir Tim Hunt, recently apologized for the offensive comments he made about the "trouble with girls" in s
...
JUN 10, 2015
Plants & Animals
Human rights are a hot button issue in every government and in every country on the planet. Even here in the United Stat
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
JUN 04, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers, including a group at the Department of Psychology at the Technische Universitat Dresden in Germany, have wo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 04, 2015
Neuroscience
Famous physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking has told BBC in an interview that if he had one day become a burden to
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2015
Neuroscience
New research at Michigan State University says that people who act impulsively in response to negative emotions are at g
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 23, 2015
Neuroscience
Do you remember how nervous you were on your first date? Did you take a shot of alcohol to overcome the anxiety or did y
...
Written By:
Kareem Heslop
MAY 18, 2015
Neuroscience
In the course of his neurocriminology research, Adrian Raine of the University of Pennsylvania investigates the interpla
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 15, 2015
Neuroscience
Consider the insurance salesman. She or he must overcome the preference in most people for immediate positive reinforcem
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 14, 2015
Health & Medicine
What human trait is less understood than lonely perfectionism? It's unattainable, of course, for we are all human. It's
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 11, 2015
Neuroscience
More than 100 million Americans are victims of chronic pain, resulting in annual costs of approximately $600 billion in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 11, 2015
Technology
Much has been said about the human capacity to bond. John Bowlby's attachment theory is based on our primal need to bond
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 09, 2015
Neuroscience
Images of soccer moms shuttling kids around in minivans could one day be as quaint as a Norman Rockwell painting. Concus
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 08, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Do you cringe at the sight of a snake or panic at the top of a roller coaster. Maybe it's in the genes.
An ar ...
An ar ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
MAY 04, 2015
Neuroscience
New research supports the use of motivational interviewing-a technique described below-to treat addictive behaviors like
...
Written By:
Will Hector
MAY 01, 2015
Neuroscience
A study published in Paediatric Critical Care Medicine and funded by the Meningitis Research Foundation indicates that c
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider