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No. A recent study by British and German scientists reveals that, although we commonly associate laughter with happiness, laughing covers a wide range of emotions, each of which is processed in a different region of the brain.

A group of Australian and Swiss scientists have discovered that it is possible to guess the number a subject is thinking of simply by looking at their eyes. The details of the study have been published in the scientific journal Current Biology.

An international team led by researchers from CREAF and the CSIC has analyzed 493 species of mammals to confirm that animals with larger brains live longer. The new study confirms the adaptive benefits of having a large brain.

The brain of flies works faster than today's best computers, a team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology in Germany has just demonstrated. That is why it is so difficult to catch them.

People with Alzheimer's who have a large head have better memory and more ability to think than those with the same disease and a smaller head. This has been shown by a work carried out by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) and published today in Neurology.

A team of scientists at the University of Manchester, in Great Britain, has identified a chemical capable of suppressing appetite in humans and putting an end to "gluttony". In addition, it could help drug addicts and alcoholics to fight their addiction.

A team led by scientists from the United Kingdom has identified a key protein in learning and memory. The finding, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), has great relevance for the study of Alzheimer's disease.

The intelligence of dolphins is enigmatic and we do not yet know their real capacity. They have complex brain structures that in humans and apes are associated with social skills and empathy, and their brain is the largest in the animal kingdom in relation to the size of their body.