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A study provides the first objective evidence that mental training reduces physical signs of long periods of stress. Mental training that promotes skills such as mindfulness, gratitude or compassion reduces the concentration of the stress hormone...

A new study found that babies start showing specific emotions during their first month of life.

People who smoke, suffer from high blood pressure, obesity, or diabetes are not only at greater risk of suffering a stroke, heart attack, or dementia.

Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other risk factors for cardiovascular diseases also increase the likelihood of suffering from depressive mood or depression. Until now, however, it was unclear whether this influence changes over the course of life or is independent of age. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences shows: Among those over 65, these risk factors play a smaller role in relation to depression than among younger.

 E-Mail To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as the telephone consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and color, and sounds, such as ringing. In addition, there are actions, i.e. how we use a telephone. However, the concept of telephone does not only arise in the brain when we have a telephone in front of us. It also appears when the term is merely mentioned. If we read the word "telephone", o...

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences To understand the world, we arrange individual objects, people, and events into different categories or concepts. Concepts such as ‘the telephone’ consist primarily of visible features, i.e. shape and color, and sounds, such as ringing. In addition, there are actions, i.e. how we use a telephone. However, the concept of telephone does not only arise in the brain when we have a telephone in front of us. It also appears when the term...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Cognitive maps in the brain help us to act according to a specific situation. view more  Credit: MPI CBS Successful navigation requires the ability to separate memories in a context-dependent manner. For example, to find lost keys, one must first remember whether the keys were left in the kitchen or the office. How does the human brain retrieve the contextual memories that drive behavior? J.B. Julian of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University, USA, ...

Neuroscience News Neuroscience research articles are provided. What is neuroscience? Neuroscience is the scientific study of nervous systems. Neuroscience can involve research from many branches of science including those involving neurology, brain science, neurobiology, psychology, computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, prosthetics, neuroimaging, engineering, medicine, physics, mathematics, pharmacology, electrophysiology, biology, robotics and technology. – What is neurolog...

When Empathy Hurts, Compassion Can Heal A new study shows compassion training can help us cope with other peoples distress Empathy can be painful. Or so suggests a growing body of neuroscientific research. When we witness suffering and distress in others, our natural tendency to empathize can bring us vicarious pain. Is there a better way of approaching distress in other people? A recent study, published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, suggests that we can better cope with others’ negat...

Learning to read in adulthood may lead to transformation of your brain Learning to read in adulthood may lead to transformation of your brain In Adulthood, When A Completely Illiterate Person Learns To Read And Write, There Is A Change In Human Brain And It Reorganises Itself Significantly. News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Navnidhi Chugh | Updated on: 26 May 2017, 11:02:18 PM New Delhi: In adulthood, when a completely illiterate person learns to read and write, ...