Animals with large brains are smarter, but they have fewer offspring and smaller intestines. This fact, which has been suspected for a long time, has just been experimentally confirmed in guppy fish (Poecilia reticulata) by an international team of researchers who publish their work in Science.
Almost everyone thinks talking alone is crazy, and when we do we make sure that no one is listening. However, it seems that this habit stimulates the brain and helps it to better concentrate on the task or problem to be solved, according to a study recently published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Pyschology.
Video game consoles and video games are being revealed in recent years as the perfect tool for health, learning and even the study of animals. Now, scientists from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) have decided to use the famous game Professor Layton, to study the behavior of orangutans and improve the enrichment program for these animals.
A study carried out a few years ago by MIT scientists revealed that there are three components of food that strengthen synapses between neurons and increase cognitive abilities consumed for at least four weeks: choline, present in eggs; uridine monophosphate, contained in beets; and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) from fatty fish.
An international team of researchers has located a gene that determines both brain size and intelligence. The study, published in Nature Genetics, has collected brain images from more than 20,000 people from around the world.
A neuroscientific study from the Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York (USA) reveals that intelligence and concern are related to a shortage of choline in the subcortical white matter of the brain. The researchers conclude that both traits coevolved in humans.
Yes, especially the fish that our mothers eat during pregnancy, according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that indicates that the children of women who have consumed more fish during pregnancy obtain better results in tests of verbal intelligence, complex motor skills and behaviors prone to socialization. The results come from the Nutrimenthe project included in the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union.
It is a disease that only affects children and is caused by an alteration in a gene on the X chromosome. This pathology involves neurological alterations, causing small delays in the development of intelligence, stiffness in the muscles, and so on.
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.
