Why do some people get 'hangry' more quickly than others?
"Come on, little fella—we should get going now." But my son was not listening. The sand in the playground was just right, so he kept digging with his new toy excavator.
Jan 19, 2026
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Psychological Phenomena: News and Research on Interoception
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Humans could have as many as 33 senses
Stuck in front of our screens all day, we often ignore our senses beyond sound and vision. And yet they are always at work. When we're more alert, we feel the rough and smooth surfaces of objects, the stiffness in our shoulders, ...
Dec 23, 2025
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7 Tesla MRI reveals how the human brain anticipates and regulates the body's needs
Using an ultra-high-resolution imaging technology called 7 Tesla functional MRI (fMRI) on human participants, researchers have mapped how different parts of the brain work together. Specifically, they discovered a unified ...
Nov 6, 2025
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Dancing can alleviate perceived symptoms of depression while shedding light on its root causes
Dance as a performative art form alleviates perceived symptoms of depression, helps to understand its root causes and promotes self-actualization, a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland found. The study is ...
Oct 30, 2025
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Emotional abuse in childhood may erode trust in one's own body
A team of researchers from TU Dresden and FU Berlin conducted a meta-analysis to investigate the connection between childhood maltreatment and the internal "sense" that allows us to perceive and understand the signals generated ...
Jul 7, 2025
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Alexithymia: Why some people find it so hard to identify emotions, and how this affects them
Alexithymia is a term you may not have heard before. But it describes something many people experience: difficulties in identifying, distinguishing and expressing emotions. It affects how people engage with their emotions ...
Nov 6, 2024
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Harnessing the power of eye tracking in brain-machine interfaces
In recent years, eye tracking technology has advanced rapidly, suggesting that our eyes deserve greater attention within the evolving brain-machine interface (BMI) landscape. One particularly intriguing area is the connection ...
Sep 20, 2024
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Neurons can feel the pulse in the brain, study shows
As opposed to the sensory perception of the external world, interoception is the sensing of internal body signals, which informs the brain about the state of the body. Rhythmic bodily processes such as breathing, the heartbeat, ...
Feb 2, 2024
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Eating disorders are among the most lethal mental health conditions. Reconnecting with internal body sensations can help
Did you know that anorexia is the most lethal mental health condition? One person dies from an eating disorder every hour in the U.S. Many of these deaths are not from health consequences related to starvation, but from suicide.
Jan 31, 2024
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How autistic parents feel about breastfeeding and the support they receive
Surprisingly little is still known about autism and breastfeeding. A few years ago, we reviewed all of the research evidence and found limited information about the experiences of autistic parents—beyond highlighting that ...
Nov 10, 2023
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