(Medical Xpress)—Imagine that your doctor knows from evidence-based studies that if he tells you about certain, small side-effects to a particular drug, you are significantly more likely to experience that side effect than ...
New work at the University of California, Davis, shows for the first time how visual attention affects activity in specific brain cells. The paper, published June 26 in the journal Nature, shows that attention increases the ...
Jun 26, 2013
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A study at Ulm University and its Medical Center has uncovered the molecular mechanisms by which psychological trauma and other massively stressful experiences slow down the healing of bone fractures.
Jul 13, 2023
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Experts such as pianists, athletes and surgeons acquire their skills through extensive practice. However, the neurophysiological and psychological mechanisms that underlie the problem of making mistakes due to psychological ...
Jan 6, 2022
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Vertebrates are predisposed to act to gain rewards, and to lay low to avoid punishment. Try to teach chickens to back away from food in order to obtain it, and you'll fail, as researchers did in 1986. But (some) humans are ...
May 7, 2013
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University of Liege researchers have demonstrated that the physiological mechanisms triggered during NDE lead to a more vivid perception not only of imagined events in the history of an individual but also of real events ...
Mar 28, 2013
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We've all had the experience of looking at a picture—of a sunset, a person, a sleek vehicle or adorable animal—and finding it enormously pleasing. But why? Are we culturally conditioned to gain pleasure from certain images ...
Jan 25, 2024
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We've all been there. You're dying to grab that last piece of cake on the table during an office meeting, but you are not alone. Perhaps you just cut off a small piece—leaving something behind for your colleagues, who do ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Ayanna Thomas is an avid gym-goer. She works out multiple times a week, and she doesn't even really think about it—she goes because going has become automatic for her.
Dec 21, 2022
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After a good night out you may not be surprised when you wake up feeling rough the next morning. But what may surprise you is if your friends aren't feeling the same way. Some may feel worse, some better and some (if they're ...
Dec 16, 2022
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