(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers affiliated with several medical institutions in the U.K. has found that some women who avoid closeness in relationships tended to feel more pain during an experiment, than did women ...
Being shown pictures of others being loved and cared for reduces the brain's response to threat, new research from the University of Exeter has found.
Nov 7, 2014
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Children are more egocentric than adults. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have demonstrated for the first time that children are also worse at putting themselves ...
May 27, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Like most things, sex requires motivation. An attractive face, a pleasant fragrance, perhaps a sexy image. Yet people differ in their response to sex cues, some react strongly; some don't. A greater responsiveness ...
May 15, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—What's one of your worst memories? How did it make you feel? According to psychologists, remembering the emotions felt during a negative personal experience, such as how sad you were or how embarrassed ...
Apr 18, 2014
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Making a snap decision usually means following your initial reaction—going with your gut. That intuitive feeling sprouts from the limbic system, the evolutionarily older and simpler part of the brain that affects emotion, ...
Mar 31, 2014
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Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet known about the underlying neural processes. Researchers at the University ...
Mar 11, 2014
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We would like to do without pain and yet without it we wouldn't be able to survive. Pain signals dangerous stimuli (internal or external) and guides our behaviour. Its ultimate goal is to prioritize escape, recovery and healing. ...
Feb 27, 2014
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Perhaps one of the most defining features of humanity is our capacity for empathy – the ability to put ourselves in others' shoes. A new University of Virginia study strongly suggests that we are hardwired to empathize ...
Aug 22, 2013
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Scientists, like Buddhist monks and Zen masters, have known for years that meditation can reduce anxiety, but not how. Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, however, have succeeded in identifying the brain functions ...
Jun 4, 2013
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