The legacy of Frans de Waal 
Death through the eyes of an animal 
Blue cars everywhere – The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon 
Make a Snowface and challenge your brain
Press your face firmly into the snow and the imprint looks like the real thing. This optical illusion reveals how your brain functions.
Drama? Or trauma?
The representation of mental disorders in society and pop culture repeatedly misses, at best, the nuances associated with the experience of living with a mental disorder. In the attempt of characterizing psychiatric disorders by creating dramatic and oversimplified caricatures, have we failed to recognize something fundamental that we all share to some extent despite our diagnostic boundaries?
How gender-neutral is language?
Research shows that with supposedly neutral terms we still automatically think of men.
The mind’s eye is like a real eye
Research from the Donders institute reveals that imagining something can be very much like seeing it with your eyes, and vice versa.
Play a game to get over your fear of needles
Some people have negative feelings towards vaccines, while others fear not the vaccine but the
“Magic mushroom” therapy reduces major depression
Psilocybin may treat depression more effectively than any commonly used treatments. And it does so with relatively little side-effects and addiction liability.
The brain in black and white squares
Chess is considered the intellectuals’ game par excellence. It requires logic and strategy. What does the brain have to do with the moves your pawns make on the chessboard?
Your second language doesn’t mind some champagne
It appears that drinking a glass of champagne does not impair your pronunciation in a second language, and sometimes even improves it.
Nature: A sight for sore minds
We know that time spent in nature benefits our physical health. But what can the great outdoors do for our minds?
What a surprising feeling
Imagine that it’s Christmas and, as every year, you ask for money— no risk of being disappointed and you can buy whatever you want with it. But it doesn’t quite feel the same as if you’d received a surprise, does it?