Do you want your brain to grow? Several neuroscientific studies have recently shown that brain size is related to certain habits and skills such as meditating, exercising, and cultivating friendship. We explain how.
Although dark chocolate is not a common ingredient in the diet of snails, perhaps it should start to be. Especially after researchers from the University of Calgary have shown that the epicatechin contained in this food improves the memory of snails of the species Lymnaea stagnalis.
The term "reduplicative paramnesia" designates the disorder in which the false conviction appears that a place that is familiar to the patient exists in more than one physical location. For example, the patient may insist that the hospital to which he is admitted has been duplicated and relocated.
Non-smokers who live or spend excessive time with smokers experience memory problems, according to new research by scientists at Northumbria University (UK) published in the journal 'Addiction'.
What will we be working on in twenty years? A report by the British consultancy Fast Future, specialized in detecting trends, has consulted hundreds of experts from around the world to identify the most promising professions that scientists and technologists will pursue in 2030. These are some of them.
70 percent of people say they have ever experienced déjà vu, a French term that can be translated as "already seen" and which gives name to the feeling of living an already experienced reality. It is a paramnesia, that is, a false memory. The explanation is not to be found in past lives or in prophecies, but in small lapses in the storage of memory by the brain.
Although it may seem like science fiction, it is not. According to a study published in the 'Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society' and conducted by experts from Northwestern University, there is a select group of people over eighty years of age, known as the "SuperAgers" or "superannians", who have an anatomy special brain that allows them to think and remember even better than people twenty or thirty years younger.
Kim Peek was a "walking encyclopedia" who in her life memorized more than 8,000 books since her parents began reading stories to her when she was only 18 months old. Peek was able to read and memorize a page in a record time of 10 seconds. And he still had plenty of room in his head to remember, for example, all the zip codes in the United States.
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.
