Cholesterol levels in the bloodstream are not regulated solely by what we eat and by the production of this substance in the liver. According to research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, responsible for controlling the amount of cholesterol in the blood is a hormone called ghrelin that regulates hunger in the brain.
Does it seem normal to you that a Galician woman is the director of the visual neuroscience laboratory that bears her name at the Barrow Neurological Institute, in Phoenix, Arizona? This is the question that Eduardo Punset asks us in his first installment of "Wonderful Minds", a section of VERY Interesting writes every month about the men and women at the world forefront of science who have most impressed him.
A team of scientists has shown that the brains of shy people - some as famous as Agatha Christie, Jorge Luis Borges or Albert Einstein - perceive the world in a different way and show more intense brain activity when faced with certain stimuli.
Divide and conquer seems to be the maxim of our brain when we try to multitask. According to a study carried out by scientists from the Ecole Noramle Superieure in Paris (France) and published today by the journal Science, when we multitask, each half of our brain deals with a different matter.
On the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Fun at Work, which was commemorated on April 1, we reviewed how maintaining a positive spirit and playing not only distracts us but also stimulates creativity.
NeuroFocus, the world's leading neuromarketing company, applying the latest brain insights to advertising, has created a music format called 'Brain-Hop', which they describe as a marriage of hip-hop and neuroscience.
Did you know that if we put all the neurons of an adult brain (100,000 million) in single file they would occupy approximately 1000 kilometers? And that the key to prejudice is also in our gray matter? Or that Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project (BBP), assures that we will be able to build an artificial replica of the human brain within 10 years?
To celebrate Brain Week, in VERY Interesting we have rescued six very "brainy" interviews with Joseph Ledoux, Eve Marder, Helen Fisher, Steven Pinker, Joe Z. Tsien and Ferran Salmuri, who tell us how our thinking organ works.
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.
