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Fear is a necessary emotion, but in its proper measure: it is as bad to have little (which leads to reckless behaviors) as too much: then we face anxiety disorders.

"Yes it was me". We have seen it in the movies: a suspect is harassed by the police until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. But, as a team of psychologists has shown, you don't have to push that way to make it happen.

Learning a second language brings the same benefits to the brain as being bilingual, according to a latest study carried out by a team of researchers from the School of Psychology at the University of Kent (United Kingdom) and published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Filomena Anelli and her collaborators have carried out an experiment to analyze the effect that a motor activity such as walking, which involves the whole body, can have on the ability to perform simple arithmetic calculations.

Schizophrenia, that mental disorder that usually develops in adolescence and is characterized by delusions, abnormal thoughts, hallucinations and uncontrolled body movements, seems to have found a tough rival: intelligence itself.

Dyslexia is a disorder that affects the acquisition and learning of reading and writing that, according to statistics, could affect around 5 to 17% of the population.

The mere fact of saving some type of information such as telephone numbers, account numbers or any relevant data for us in a file on our computer, for example, can improve our current memory. This is the conclusion of the latest study by a team of researchers from the University of California in Santa Cruz (USA) and which is collected by the journal Psychological Science.

A team of researchers from the University of Rochester in New York (USA) has confirmed that injecting glial cells into the brain of mice causes a significant improvement in both memory and cognition in the rodent. The work has been published in The Journal of Neuroscience.