Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain can predict human behavior by revealing our true purposes and desires before we even know them, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Women's brains are more sensitive to the action of a hormone that orchestrates the body's response to stress, according to a new study conducted in Philadelphia (USA). Men, on the other hand, can adapt their neurons to resist its effects.
Cholesterol levels in the bloodstream are not regulated solely by what we eat and by the production of this substance in the liver. According to research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, responsible for controlling the amount of cholesterol in the blood is a hormone called ghrelin that regulates hunger in the brain.
Researchers at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine have found a way to pharmacologically induce a sense of security or the absence of fear in the brain of rats, according to the journal Science.
From a strictly scientific point of view, the memory capacity of the human brain cannot be compared with that of a PC. Just think that we have about 100,000 million neurons, each of which establishes up to 50,000 contacts with its neighboring cells.
The joint candidacy of biochemists David Julius, Linda Watkins and Baruch Minke, considered three world leaders in the field of neurobiology and the study of pain, has won the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific and Technical Research, which failed this afternoon in Oviedo.
Does it seem normal to you that a Galician woman is the director of the visual neuroscience laboratory that bears her name at the Barrow Neurological Institute, in Phoenix, Arizona? This is the question that Eduardo Punset asks us in his first installment of "Wonderful Minds", a section of VERY Interesting writes every month about the men and women at the world forefront of science who have most impressed him.
In the face of anger, the heart rate, blood pressure and testosterone production increase, cortisol (the stress hormone) decreases, and the left hemisphere of the brain is more activated. This is indicated by a new research led by scientists from the University of Valencia (UV).
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
