Neuropsych

Godfrey Hounsfield’s early life did not suggest that he would accomplish much at all.

When migraine and tension-headache patients overuse their medications, they can actually trigger more headaches.

Your brain may notice fearful faces, even if you don’t consciously realize it.

Instead of walking a mile in someone’s shoes, try reading a chapter in their book.

Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.

“Language is the most distinctively human talent.”

Without the time to mentally disengage from work, people can slip into burnout.

The rewards price to get a free cup of hot coffee at Starbucks is going up.

In a citizen science project, thousands of pet dogs are helping scientists to understand what happens to memory and cognition in old age.

It’s us.

A new 20-year analysis of over 14,000 psychology studies finds that a study’s media coverage is negatively linked to its replicability.

Forgetfulness isn’t always a “glitch” in our memories; it can be a tool to help us make sense of the present and plan for the future.

In a study involving mice, scientists used two different techniques — one optogenetic and one pharmacologic — to recover “lost” memories.

Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.

Compared to people who took a placebo, the brains of those who took caffeine pills had a temporarily smaller gray matter volume.

Sniffing out a deal.

When we don’t find ways to relieve chronic stress, personal burnout is the likely consequence.

Has the “age of psychopharmacology” shrunk society’s sense of responsibility for mental health?

It may be possible to give people the tools to withstand difficulty before it attaches to them.

Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.

Researchers are looking at neurons required for touch-mediated pain relief.

Pathogenic, self-propagating proteins called prions found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s are also found in Down syndrome patients.

And it’s much, much less expensive.

People engage in creative thinking every day, whether they realize it or not.

When you can’t enter flow, you can still lean on your internal rhythm.

Over time, different structures in the brain come to play unique roles in the storage and retrieval of long-term memories.

Solving difficult visual puzzles seems to help the brain “rewire” itself by forming new neural pathways.

The “subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane” helps shield and protect the brain.

“Jumping genes” exist in various forms, including as remnants of ancient retroviruses, and make up about 45% of the human genome.

When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.