What brain mechanisms influence decision-making about the severity that we impose on a punishment? This has been the central axis of the research carried out by a team of scientists from Harvard University (USA) and which has been published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Smoking large amounts of marijuana for a long period of time can cause the opposite effect that those who smoke it tend to seek, since a study has just determined that this damages the brain's pleasure center, responsible for the sensations of pleasure and reward .
For every hour that we reduce the duration of sleep, the more our overall cognitive performance gradually decreases. This is the conclusion of the latest study carried out by a team of researchers from Duke University (USA) and the National University of Singapore and which is collected by the journal Sleep.
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has discovered how the human brain is able to rapidly absorb and analyze new information, what we call learning. The study has been published in the journal Neuron.
A new study carried out by the Center for Cognitive Aging and Cognitive Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh (UK) has found that bilingualism has a very positive effect on cognition towards maturity: it slows down the cognitive decline of aging.
The world population ages and with aging increases the prevalence of people who suffer some type of cognitive deterioration beyond what is properly expected for the full years.
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin (Germany) has carried out a study to find out the impact on the brain of continuous stimulation of the pleasure center through excess of explicit sexual content.
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.
