Social comparison, or the tendency to compare oneself with another, is an individual behavior largely embedded in cultural and political background. Research has converged on the idea that the brain’s reward-related system is involved. Why is that?
The world’s strongest MR scanner, at a strength of 14 tesla (T), will be built at the Donders Institute. I got the opportunity to have a chat with Professor David Norris, who is leading the project, about the new scanner and the road to get it running.
Fidgeting might be beneficial for your concentration and maintaining weight.
A conversation with ChatGPT is often very similar to a conversation with a human… but one with an insane amount of knowledge. Convenient, right?
It is possible that an inflammatory reaction in the brain and a change in energy management cause many complaints in long COVID.
As grown-ups, we easily tend to get bored when falling into a form of routine. Children, on the contrary, are very much into repetitions. This developmental difference is at the core of the way we process and interpret the world with experience.
The series “The Last of Us” (based on the video game) brought a scary and post-apocalyptic scenario to our screens: that of a fungal pandemic in which infected people turn into zombies with the sole goal of spreading the fungus to the uninfected. It makes for a very compelling horror story, but is any of it rooted in reality or is it all just imagination? The answer lies somewhere in between.
It’s happened to the best of us: you are running late to a doctor’s appointment,
The amount of the brain chemical dopamine might explain mindless actions.