CURRENT ARTICLES & VIDEOS ON THE NEUROSCIENCE OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE
New research analyzed physical contact to see whether a rich vocabulary of supportive touch is
related to improved athletic performance.
(NYTImes 2/22/10)
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A new study suggests that antidepressant medication fights depression most effectively when it first modifies two personality traits, high neuroticism and low extraversion, that predispose people to this mood disorder.
(Science News 1/2/10)
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Recent research points to a biological basis for compassion in humans.
(Greater Good 1/20/10)
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A new study finds that psychological trauma creates changes in children's brains.
(CNN Health 12/9/2009)
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Inside an actor's brain - British actor Fiona Shaw performs parts of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land while in an MRI scanner.
(VIDEO on THE GUARDIAN 11/24/09)
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How blind people "see" the actions of others - more on mirror neurons.
(Scientific American 11/10/09)
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Two recently published studies suggest that older people have
difficulty suppressing stereotypes.
(Truthout 9/30/09)
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Nurture Shock says that most of what parents have been told is good for kids is wrong.
(Salon 9/18/09)
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TEST MY BRAIN website - take part in online cognitive tests to advance brain research!
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Recent studies have shown that moving our body in certain ways can improve our ability to think.
(Scientific American Podcast 6/1/09)
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Forget about erasing bad memories. Researchers have located the receptor that enables our brain to override or "unlearn" traumatic past experiences.
(SEED Magazine 4/1/09)
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Brain scans show how the brain's organization changes from childhood to adulthood.
(Video on LIVE SCIENCE)
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