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·August 30, 2022·2 min read

Surrounded by Sick Coworkers? Your Body Is Preparing for Battle

Our brains obtain information from sick people, eliciting changes in our physiology and immune response. Observing images of ill people triggers activation of the immune system.

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·November 11, 2021·3 min read

When Mother and Child Interact, Physiology and Behavior Coordinate

When a mother and her child are coordinated at the behavioral level during play, they work together and share positive affect. The child's physiological activity follows physiological changes in the mother.

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·October 30, 2021·5 min read

A Universal Law of Physiology Emerges From a Professor’s Research

A new study presents the first quantitative comparison of adaptation response.

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·May 21, 2020·3 min read

Hearts that drum together beat together

Drumming in a group stimulates behavioral and physiological synchronization, which contributes to the formation of social bonds and the ability to cooperate.

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·October 11, 2019·4 min read

Researcher uses sweat monitors to predict behavioral issues in adolescents severely affected with autism

Electrodermal activity, which results in an increased level of sweat, was able to determine when an adolescent with server ASD was about to embark on aggressive behavior 60% of the time.

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·October 5, 2019·2 min read

Golden Ratio Observed In Human Skulls

The Golden Ratio was noted in the human skull dimensions, but not in other mammals. The findings may have important anthropological and evolutionary implications.

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·June 13, 2019·4 min read

Downward head tilt can make people seem more dominant

Tilting the head downwards creates an artificial appearance of a facial action that has a strong effect on social perception. Study reveals social judgements about the face are not driven by the face shape or muscularity alone, but by the movement of the head.

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·March 9, 2019·6 min read

High Speed 3D Microscope Captures Stunning Videos of Fruit Fly Nerve Cells in Action

Columbia team harnesses powerful technology to uncover never-before-seen details of the nervous system, demonstrating SCAPE's broad potential to decipher the brain.

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·June 22, 2018·4 min read

Brain Tingles: The Physiological Benefits of ASMR

Researchers reveal the phenomenon of ASMR videos may have a positive physiological effect on viewers. The study reports those who experience ASMR have lower heart rates while watching the videos, as well as an increase in positive emotions.

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·April 18, 2018·4 min read

Physiological Reactions to Emotions are Not Uniform

A new study upends hundreds of years of belief that physiological responses to emotion are uniform. Researchers report there is not a single physiological fingerprint for each emotion, but a population of potential responses.

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·October 31, 2017·3 min read

Right Handed Baseball Players More Successful When Batting Left Handed

Astros and Dodgers players take note, your batting hand may determine your success in a game. Researchers report baseball players who throw and bat left-handed should have a batting advantage as they have less neurological hemispheric lateralization than right handers.