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What’s Up With That: Your Best Thinking Seems to Happen in the Shower
You’re in the shower. The water sounds like a gentle, rainy static, and feels like a Plinko massage. You’ve just started to lather up and suddenly, you’re hit with ...Full Article
Do People Only Use 10 Percent of Their Brains?
The human brain is complex. Along with performing millions of mundane acts, it composes concertos, issues manifestos and comes up with elegant solutions to equations. It’s the wellspring of ...Full Article
How Does Sugar Affect Your Brain? Turns Out In A Very Similar Way To Drugs And Alcohol
Sugar. Just the thought of a sweet snack can make even the most hardcore dieter weak at the knees. The promise of a single fresh-baked chocolate chip cookie can ...Full Article
Our brains judge a face’s trustworthiness—even when we can’t see it
Our brains are able to judge the trustworthiness of a face even when we cannot consciously see it, a team of scientists has found. Their findings, which appear in ...Full Article
Neymar’s brain on auto-pilot – Japan neurologists
Brazilian superstar Neymar's brain activity while dancing past opponents is less than 10 percent the level of amateur players, suggesting he plays as if on auto-pilot, according to Japanese ...Full Article
Study Reveals How Sleep Removes Toxic Waste from the Brain
Although we don’t know exactly why, there is no question that sleep is crucial for brain and overall health. Without proper sleep, the chance of disease and stress increases ...Full Article
Where Is God Located In the Brain? Importance of Religion Is Related To Thickness Of The Cerebral Cortex
Made entirely of gray matter and distinguished by its characteristic folds, the cerebral cortex is the brain's outermost layer covering the hemispheres. Now, researchers from New York State Psychiatric ...Full Article
Study cracks how the brain processes emotions
Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new ...Full Article
Sugar on trial: What you really need to know
Imagine you are siiting at a table with a bag of sugar, a teaspoon and a glass of water. You open the bag and add a spoonful of sugar ...Full Article
Does “Free Will” Stem From Brain Noise?
Our ability to make choices — and sometimes mistakes — might arise from random fluctuations in the brain’s background electrical noise, according to a recent study from the Center ...Full Article