According to a theory formulated a few decades ago by Jaak Panksepp, emeritus professor of psychology at Bowling Green University (USA) and an expert in affective neuroscience, the seven basic emotions are search, fear, anger, care or protection, pain, desire and play.
A team of researchers from the University of Southern California (USA) discovered a few years ago that the brain structure of compulsive liars is different from that of honest ones. Specifically, American researchers have found that compulsive liars have more white matter than gray matter in the frontal lobe of the brain, around 22% more.
Sleep increases the reproduction of cells that are involved in the formation of myelin, the insulating material in nerve cell projections in the brain and spinal cord, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.
Researchers from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCyC) of the University of Granada have analyzed the similarities and differences in psychological and brain function that exist between people addicted to cocaine and gamblers. His work has determined that people addicted to games of chance have abnormalities in their brain function that affect their ability to make decisions.
Philippa Lally and her colleagues at University College London (UK) have studied how habits are formed in everyday life. Through a study with 96 volunteers published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, they found that as we repeat an action or a choice (what to eat, what to drink, what exercise to practice ...) the automatism increases, although the The time it takes people to make a behavior automatic and not need the will to carry it out varies a lot, ranging between 18 and 254 days, although the maximum is around 84 days of repetition.
For several decades, scientists have wondered why around 80% of women, regardless of whether they are right or left-handed, use their left arms to cradle their offspring, in what appears to be instinctive behavior.
Two scientists from the University of Washington (USA) have approached telepathic communication by achieving the involuntary movement of the hand of one of them when receiving an order executed by the brain of the other. This advance gives rise to a future technology of bilateral brain connection that allows us to communicate without saying a word.
Embryonic stem cell culture has again given birth to another great scientific breakthrough: the creation of the first laboratory brain. Just 4 millimeters in diameter but fully functional, the mini-brains have been created by the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna (Austria) and lay the foundations for the development of new, less invasive and more ethical brain exploration techniques.
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.
