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Understanding the Power of Meditation
Neuroscientists are exploring the source of the brain benefits behind habitual meditative practices.
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Your selections: Thinking and Awareness
Why Can't You Tickle Yourself?
Your brain anticipates your touch, effectively canceling out your own tickle.
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How Does Caffeine Affect Your Brain?
By blocking a brain chemical that makes us sleepy, caffeine helps us feel more awake and alert.
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Alzheimer's Disease Empathy Kit
The exercises in this video will help you understand what it’s like to have Alzheimer’s.
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The Political Brain: Why So Many People Believe in Fake News
Our existing beliefs can distort the way we process information.
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Our Memories Are Not as They Seem
The memories stored in our brains can change for many reasons.
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The Reason Why a $28,000 Grilled Cheese Exists: The Fusiform Gyrus
Humans can find faces in many things because of our fusiform gyrus.
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Trust Your Gut: How the Brain-Gut Connection Helps Us Decide Intuitively
The two-way communication between the brain and the gut does more than help us digest a meal.
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Preparing for ADHD Awareness Month
October is ADHD Awareness Month. Learn more about this neurological disorder.
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Why We Can’t Think Logically About the COVID-19 Vaccines
In short: we don’t think logically about most things.
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How Playing in Empty Stadiums Affects Athletes
For some, the lack of fans might relieve performance anxiety or hurt motivation. But those at the top of their game likely aren’t fazed.
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ICYMI: Studying Math Helps the Teen Brain Develop
And other neuroscience news in June 2021.
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Psychedelics Open a New Window on the Mechanisms of Perception
Some neuroscientists think psychedelic drugs and the hallucinations they induce could help reveal how the brain generates our perceptions of the world around us — and of ourselves.
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