Virtual reality study reveals we perceive ourselves as more attractive when we view ourselves from a third-person perspective.
Olfaction plays a role in signaling key dynamic changes in the mother-child relationship.
Connectedness to nature makes children happier due to their tendency to perform sustainable and pro-ecological behaviors.
Ethnobotanical plant extracts, including Ghanaian quinine and Japanese knotweed, show strong activity against B.burgdorferi, outperforming current antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease.
Study highlights the risk of persistent visual side effects in men who take the highest recommended dose of viagra. Some of the visual disturbances include color vision impairments, blurred vision, and problems with light sensitivity.
High-tempo music may increase the benefits of exercise and reduce perceived effort, particularly if listened to during endurance training.
Virtual reality study reveals people plan movements and anticipate the force of gravity by "seeing it" through visual cues rather than "feeling it."
Stray, untrained dogs respond to gestures given by humans. The findings suggest that dog/human understanding may transcend learning.
Scenes of justified and unjustified violence in movies activate different areas of the adolescent brain. Unjustified violence activates the lateral orbital frontal cortex, while scenes where violence appears justified, activates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
Researchers believe they have identified specific neurons that are responsible for conscious awareness. Previous studies have implicated both thalamocortical circuits and cortico-cortico circuits in consciousness. The new study reports these networks intersect via L5p neurons. Directly activating L5p neurons made mice react to weaker sensory stimuli. The researchers say if consciousness requires L5p neurons, all brain activity without them must be unconscious.
Researchers examine why males tend to rate women with a lower waist-to-hip ratio as more attractive or sexy.
Understanding how parasites 'hack' the brains of their hosts may provide new insights into decision making and behavior.
