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A team of researchers from the National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore (India) has discovered that whether we are afraid or not is a matter of a “democratic vote” between the neurons in our brain. They decide by majority if we feel fear or not. The work has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.

Although many times it seems that man's best friend understands perfectly everything we say to him, the truth is that the brain of dogs does differentiate both the sounds of human speech and the way in which we express ourselves: with joy, with anger, with sadness ... That is, dogs not only listen to what we say, but also how we say it.

These days we have seen how Magnus Carlsen, a young Norwegian of only 24 years old, has become the world chess champion by beating the Indian five-time champion Viswanathan Anand in a tense duel of the titans until the end.

When we are in a good mood, things always seem to go better for us. It is known that when our mood is positive, our motivation increases and our attention is even modulated, and now it seems that positive mood can also improve our performance.

Despite looking like something out of a science fiction movie, a team of researchers from the Federal Polytechnic School of Zurich (Switzerland) has managed to devise a method of genetic regulation that, through brain waves, is capable of controlling the conversion of genes into proteins. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nature Communications.

It is well established that women have a more developed sense of smell than men, but until now it was not known why.

A team of scientists from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (USA) has succeeded in converting human skin cells into a specific type of brain cell without using stem cells in the process. The work has been published in the journal Neuron.

A new study finds that the brain mechanisms involved in learning get a good boost when people put their minds to rest to rest and reflect on what they have learned. The work has been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.