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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

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

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

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

Researchers spent 17 years following older adults and found that the slowest steppers died significantly earlier, and the difference was measured in milliseconds

Medical Research & Innovations

Researchers spent 17 years following older adults and found that the slowest steppers died significantly earlier, and the difference was measured in milliseconds

Jun 29 · 7 min read · Gerontology

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

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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

Scientists spent 30 years trying to find what carries Alzheimer’s from one brain cell to the next. A new study just identified it, and it turns out to be a protein the brain uses to carry memories

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Scientists spent 30 years trying to find what carries Alzheimer’s from one brain cell to the next. A new study just identified it, and it turns out to be a protein the brain uses to carry memories

Jul 2 · 8 min read · Cell

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

Scientists found that sleep and exercise can suppress a blood mutation carried by up to half of people over 80, but only if you have the right gene mutated

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Scientists found that sleep and exercise can suppress a blood mutation carried by up to half of people over 80, but only if you have the right gene mutated

Jun 21 · 6 min read · Nature

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