Ramadan is a holy month in Islam, focused on introspection. A key part is fasting between sunrise and sunset. What effect does this have on the brain? Esther Aarts, scientist and research program leader in Nutrition & Cognition, explains.
Learning something new can make old knowledge feel harder to reach, but that doesn’t mean your brain is running out of space.
Neurowetenschap kan de dood niet volledig verklaren, maar ze laat wel zien dat sterven geen abrupt einde is.
New research reveals a surprising connection between gut bacteria and social fear
Do you remember a childhood time when you are tickled? Do you like the sensation of being tickled? Who are the ones who tickled you and who would you like to tickle? Have you tried tickling ourselves? Tickle is a familiar sensation to most of us. Yet, we lack a thorough scientific understanding of tickling. A recent article by Dr. Kilteni from Donders Institute and Karolinska institute looked at the status and the prospect of research on tickling, revealing interesting facts about this underrated subfield in neuroscience.
The brain is an impressively rapid forecaster, completing sentences before they finish, as if informed by a crystal ball. Similar to language models like GPT, it constantly predicts words to come and is sensitive to errors.
A sudden flash of understanding can feel magical. But new research shows that “Aha!” moments are more than just a feeling, they reshape our brains in ways that make those discoveries stick.
When we talk about the human brain, we often picture the adult form – a fully folded cortex, distinct regions, complex circuits, continuous changes and overlapping functions. Yet the story of how this structure emerges is one of the most striking narratives in biology. Early brain development is an orchestrated progression of cellular decisions, migrations, and refinements that begins long before birth and sets the stage for everything that follows.
In this blog, we explore how simple decision-making mechanisms in the brain can evolve into complex social behaviour and how AI agents can help in finding such links faster.
To get straight to the point: resilience is different from acting unbothered or forcing yourself
Ramadan: What does fasting do to your brain? 
The more we learn, the more we forget? 
The ultimate secret: what happens when we die? 
