When dehydration strikes, part of the brain can swell, neural signaling can intensify, and doing monotonous tasks can get harder.
Dehydration alters human brain shape and activity, slackens task performance
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Beauty is simpler, and less special, than we realize: New analysis of long-studied feeling
Beauty, long studied by philosophers, and more recently by scientists, is simpler than we might think, New York University psychology
Brain response study upends thinking about why practice speeds up motor reaction times: Practicing a movement does make future similar movements happen faster, but not because the brain
Researchers in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins Medicine report that a computerized study of 36
Leopard geckos can make new brain cells
University of Guelph researchers have discovered the type of stem cell allowing geckos to create new brain cells, providing evidence
Unless we spot changes, most life experiences are fabricated from memories: Change detection plays key role in how we construct reality, new model suggests
We may not be able to change recent events in our lives, but how well we remember them plays a
Web-based support system may help people lose weight and keep it off
In a randomized long-term lifestyle change trial, an Internet-based health behavior change support system (HBCSS) was effective in improving weight
Small classes reduce performance gaps in science
From high-stakes multiple choice exams to the social climate of the classroom, research has shown those factors can contribute to
Three research-based ways to maximize the fun of leisure activities: You can’t schedule enjoyable events like you do work
Everyone’s so busy these days that it is easy to think you need to schedule time to have fun. But
Fright and flight: Deciding when to escape: Study on instinctive behaviour elucidates a synaptic mechanism for computing escape decisions
How does your brain decide what to do in a threatening situation? A new paper published in Nature describes a
Around the world, people have surprisingly modest notions of the ‘ideal’ life
It seems reasonable that people would want to maximize various aspects of life if they were given the opportunity to