Saying goodbye is important
Properly ending chapters in your life is important for how you feel and move on to the next phase in life.
Research
How regularly changing diapers can give dads a “parenting brain”
Father’s Day: What makes somebody a father? Frequently performing caregiving tasks can change your brain in a way that helps you to be a good parent to your child.
Me versus the other
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?
World’s strongest MR scanner comes to the Donders: A conversation with David Norris
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 about and around, is it good for you?
Fidgeting might be beneficial for your concentration and maintaining weight.
ChatGPT: A chatbot on another level
A conversation with ChatGPT is often very similar to a conversation with a human… but one with an insane amount of knowledge. Convenient, right?
Fatigue and brain fog due to long COVID: What’s going wrong in the brain?
It is possible that an inflammatory reaction in the brain and a change in energy management cause many complaints in long COVID.
Repeat it until you get it
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.
Mind-controlling fungi: reality or science fiction?
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.