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A new study found the brain circuit that explains why you lose your appetite when you are anxious, and discovered it works like a single switch controlling both at once

A new study found the brain circuit that explains why you lose your appetite when you are anxious, and discovered it works like a single switch controlling both at once

Jul 23 · 8 min read · PNAS

A study of 544,000 couples across 29 countries confirmed that relationships fail more often when women earn more, then ruled out almost every explanation researchers assumed was responsible

A study of 544,000 couples across 29 countries confirmed that relationships fail more often when women earn more, then ruled out almost every explanation researchers assumed was responsible

Jul 9 · 7 min read · Journal of Marriage and Family

Psychology assumed that helping others feel better was a universal human motive. A study of 6,900 people just showed it is not

Psychology assumed that helping others feel better was a universal human motive. A study of 6,900 people just showed it is not

Jul 1 · 7 min read

A Harvard study compared the Mediterranean diet, plant-based diet, and four others for brain protection and found one diet beat all of them by a significant margin

Medical Research & Innovations

A Harvard study compared the Mediterranean diet, plant-based diet, and four others for brain protection and found one diet beat all of them by a significant margin

Jun 23 · 6 min read · JAMA Neurology

People with narcolepsy collapse when they laugh or feel joy. Scientists just found the brain circuit responsible, and it runs through the love hormone

People with narcolepsy collapse when they laugh or feel joy. Scientists just found the brain circuit responsible, and it runs through the love hormone

Jul 19 · 9 min read · Nature

A new study shows children are not moral blank slates: prosocial gut feelings appear at age 3 and deliberate reasoning spends the next five years catching up

A new study shows children are not moral blank slates: prosocial gut feelings appear at age 3 and deliberate reasoning spends the next five years catching up

Jul 7 · 6 min read · Nature Human Behaviour

A decade of research on thousands of people proves that human brains literally synchronize during face-to-face conversation, and lonely brains cannot do it

A decade of research on thousands of people proves that human brains literally synchronize during face-to-face conversation, and lonely brains cannot do it

Jun 27 · 7 min read · Cell

A five-year study of 10,000 adolescents found that the pandemic damaged every teenager’s mental health, then hit the most genetically vulnerable ones with additional harm on top

A five-year study of 10,000 adolescents found that the pandemic damaged every teenager’s mental health, then hit the most genetically vulnerable ones with additional harm on top

Jul 15 · 8 min read · Nature Translational Psychiatry

The largest mental health study ever conducted on researchers surveyed 138,000 PhD students and postdocs and found that nearly one in three are clinically depressed or anxious, and one in five has had suicidal thoughts

The largest mental health study ever conducted on researchers surveyed 138,000 PhD students and postdocs and found that nearly one in three are clinically depressed or anxious, and one in five has had suicidal thoughts

Jul 4 · 8 min read · Nature Human Behaviour

Scientists recorded individual neurons in bilingual brains for the first time and found that the brain does not translate words, it does something more sophisticated

Scientists recorded individual neurons in bilingual brains for the first time and found that the brain does not translate words, it does something more sophisticated

Jun 25 · 6 min read · Cell

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