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Three specific areas of the brain could explain how both inherited depression and anxiety develop.

There are foods that prevent us from having a healthier brain. We go over 10 of them.

Learning about the relevance of the images we see every day modifies our brain's neural networks.

Da Vinci, Chaplin, Goethe, Beethoven, Einstein… The list of great lefties is long.

For a few years now, what we call 'cognitive training' has been the subject of much research in the psychological and neuroscientific field. The purpose of these studies has been, in many cases, to check if working on different aspects of our mental functioning such as attention or working memory can improve these capacities and also, if these improvements could translate into better performance at the school level or better social adjustment.

Is it possible to restore memory to people who have lost it due to amnesia or even, going further, victims of Alzheimer's disease? These possibilities were entirely unlikely, until now. A team of scientists led by Nobel laureate Susumu Tonegawa has managed to advance this goal by successfully returning memories lost due to amnesia to a group of laboratory mice.

If we stick to its etymological meaning, the word 'intelligence' means 'to choose between' ... so that being intelligent could well be defined as knowing how to choose.

Elite athletes who perform extreme physical efforts within sport have an area of the brain that works 82% faster than the average, according to the latest study carried out by a team of scientists from University College London (United Kingdom) and collected by Wednesday magazine.