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·April 23, 2022·3 min read

Passion Is the Biggest Key to Success

For those who are considered the "best of the best" in their professional field, passion for what they do is key to their success.

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·March 20, 2022·7 min read

An Open-Source Miniature Brain Microscope

A new miniature brain microscope, dubbed Mini2P, allows researchers to study neural network activity at high resolution in animals behaving naturally.

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·August 24, 2021·5 min read

How the Brain Perceives and Remembers a New Place

Combining virtual reality with neuroimaging, researchers identify how the brain perceives and remembers a novel place or landscape.

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·August 20, 2021·4 min read

Smells and Emotions Tug on the Brain’s Habenula

The habenula relays external information, such as sight and smell, along with internal states associated with emotion and learning to brain regions that govern adaptive behaviors.

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·June 24, 2021·4 min read

Feel-Good Hormone Dopamine Affects Passion and Autism

Hyperactivity of the dopamine system may explain the prevalent traits and conditions associated with ASD more commonly found in males.

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·February 25, 2021·5 min read

Effective Anxiety Therapy Changes Personality

Researchers report a reduction in neuroticism for people with generalized anxiety disorder who successfully completed metacognitive therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy.

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·February 11, 2021·8 min read

Which Conspiracy Theory Do You Believe In?

We are all vulnerable to conspiratorial thinking when we feel our identities are at stake and our emotions are strong.

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·October 1, 2020·6 min read

Why Writing by Hand Makes Kids Smarter

Children learn more and remember better when writing by hand, a new study reports. The brains of children are more active when handwriting than typing on a computer keyboard.

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·September 1, 2020·5 min read

New Hope for Insomniacs

Digital sleep therapy could be an effective method to treat insomnia and reduce the use of sleeping pills.

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·July 29, 2020·4 min read

How Women and Men Forgive Infidelity

Males and females view physical and emotional cheating differently. Women consider emotional affairs to be more serious, and men believe physical infidelity to be more serious generally. Researchers report if one partner feels their relationship is threatened by cheating, it is harder for them to forgive infidelity, regardless of gender.

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·June 19, 2020·5 min read

Less sleep reduces positive feelings

People experience a flattening of emotions following a single night of poor sleep. Researchers also found a link between sleep deprivation, learning, and reaction time.