Studies

Summary: The brain regulates both eating for hunger and pleasure through serotonin-producing neurons in the midbrain, but the different types of feeding are wired by independent circuits that do not influence the other type of feeding, as a study of Baylor College of Medicine demonstrated. Many times we eat, not because we are…
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More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of spirituality and religiosity has been sparse. Previous studies have used functional neuroimaging, in which an individual undergoes a brain scan while performing a task to see what areas of the brain light…
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New research explores how parenting and children's physiology may influence how much they share. Generosity not only feels good – to the giver and receiver – it has a host of other benefits for children, including promoting healthy friendships. But what makes kids generous, and how can parents help encourage them? A recent study…
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Degradation of pristine graphene occurs in the human body when interacting with a naturally existing enzyme found in the lung, announced Graphene Flagship partners: the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Strasbourg, Karolinska Institute and University of Castilla–La Mancha (UCLM). Graphene-based…
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Spanking may affect a child's brain development in similar ways to more severe forms of violence, according to a new study led by Harvard researchers. The research, published recently in the journal Child Development, builds on existing studies that show heightened activity in certain regions of the brains of children who experience…
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The irony of the title of this article is that science is not really ‘proving’ anything, it is simply offering an explanation for a timeless spiritual truth that exists as a fundamental universal law. Universal laws operate independently of belief and govern our existence in this reality. We can either accept this and begin to work in…
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Dementia is a thief that picks many pockets. In some guises, it takes our memories. Other forms rob us of inhibition. Sometimes it even takes away happiness itself. A new study has shown for the first time how some forms of early-onset dementia are associated with a profound loss of pleasure linked to a wasting of 'hedonic hotspots'…
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Helicobacter pylori is a spiral-shaped bacterium that grows in the digestive tract. H. pylori, an opportunistic pathogen, it is considered to be the most successful colonizer of the human gastrointestinal tract, infecting the stomachs of roughly 60% of the world’s adult population. Helicobacter pylori often infects the stomach during…
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Neuroscientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that interpreting code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers. Summary: neuroscientists have found reading computer code does not rely on the regions of the brain involved in language processing. Instead, it activates the ‘multiple…
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The ageing process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurised chamber. Scientists in Israel showed they could turn back the clock in two key areas of the body believed to be responsible for the frailty and ill-health that comes with growing older. As people age, the protective…
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