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Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
There were many similarities, but also some profound differences.
“I thought strangers knew who I was and were whispering about me as I walked by.”
Modern memory athletes use this ancient technique to memorize thousands of digits of pi.
“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”
Our minds seem both physical and intangible. That paradox has gripped this neuroscientist since childhood.
Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet on it. The scientist lost.
Your brain is trying to show you the future.
Since 2012, the amount of time that teenagers spend socializing in person has plummeted. Is it a coincidence that depression is more common?
From smartphone envy to life dissatisfaction, the root cause of much unhappiness is that we are wired to imagine how things could be better.
Synchronized activity between the hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and thalamus plays a role in memory consolidation.
After Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, a pathologist—searching for the secret of genius—removed, dissected, and ultimately stole the mathematician’s brain.
In the ongoing battle against PTSD, a potential new weapon emerges: a nasal spray loaded with neuropeptide Y.
When you do something with all your heart and mind, you do it with “meraki.” When we lack this feeling, it can lead to burnout.
The Serenity Prayer is nice — until the missiles come raining down on your city.
The fear of deep bodies of water may be evolutionarily ingrained.
Are people are more likely to act less emotionally and more rationally when speaking their second language?
New research shows that the transition from general to specific memories involves the maturation of inhibitory neurons in the hippocampus.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
Brain activity may be more like “ripples in a pond” rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
You’ll be able to sleep through a war.
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
Neuroscientists and artists alike are making the case that we could transform the world through psychedelics.
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
The dying brain experiences a surge of electrical activity. Could this help explain the mysterious phenomena of near-death experiences?