The feeding of insects and slugs by our ancestors may have played a key role in stimulating the brain and its cognitive capacity, says a new study carried out by the University of Washington in San Luis (USA). The work has been published in the Journal of Human Evolution.
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.
There are many benefits that meditation brings us: among other things, it reduces anxiety, stress and helps us boost our emotional well-being. But what happens in our brain while we meditate?
A team of researchers from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University (Germany) has concluded that electrical stimulation can help us control dreams, which is known as lucid dreaming, which are only those dreams in which, in addition to having full consciousness, also can control and direct the plot of the dream.
For the first time in history, a team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) has managed to reverse memory loss in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease using gene therapy in a group of laboratory mice.
Although the sense of smell may seem intuitive, almost automatic, it is one of the first things that go wrong in neurodegenerative disorders (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.) and now a team of researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center has discovered that memory It is on the specific odors that the brain's ability to learn, process and remember accurately during the deep sleep phase depends.
Parkinson's disease and other pathologies related to the brain could be detected early with simple tests that evaluate the relationship between brain activity, understanding and expression of sentences related to body movements.
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.
