Donders Wonders

Reading bad news can be surprisingly habit-forming.

Press your face firmly into the snow and the imprint looks like the real thing. This optical illusion reveals how your brain functions.

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?

Research shows that with supposedly neutral terms we still automatically think of men.

Research from the Donders institute reveals that imagining something can be very much like seeing it with your eyes, and vice versa.

Some people have negative feelings towards vaccines, while others fear not the vaccine but the

Psilocybin may treat depression more effectively than any commonly used treatments. And it does so with relatively little side-effects and addiction liability.

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?

It appears that drinking a glass of champagne does not impair your pronunciation in a second language, and sometimes even improves it.

We know that time spent in nature benefits our physical health. But what can the great outdoors do for our minds?