Browsing: brains

A week of psychology podcasting has produced a pointed, cross-cutting debate about how much our evolutionary past shapes whom we…

The brain’s fear response, long understood as a way to distinguish danger from safety, may instead blur those boundaries, scientists…

A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior argues that intelligence may raise a person’s standing within a group…

A Hong Kong neuroimaging study has found that a brain region involved in language and social processing responds less to…

Adolescence appears to be a turning point for sex differences in the microstructure of deep grey matter, according to a…

A study published in Cerebral Cortex links creative drawing ability to the brain’s white matter wiring, suggesting creativity relies on…

Direct eye contact from an adult speaker appears to shape which words babies learn by aligning the infant’s brain activity…

Scientists have found that the scent of a father can help babies align their brain activity with unfamiliar adults, potentially…

A six-week, double-blind trial comparing psilocybin with the antidepressant escitalopram in 59 patients with long-standing moderate-to-severe depression has found both…