Here’s how you can achieve lucid dreaming
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This is how focused ultrasound can reduce tremor
Creating a small hole in the brain without open surgery as part of a common treatment for tremor: focused ultrasound therapy.
The Mental Health Crisis in Academia
Mental health researchers have made a lot of progress over the years in furthering our knowledge of psychological disorders, and thankfully awareness of mental health issues is slowly increasing. However, did you know that there’s a high prevalence of mental health issues among researchers themselves?
Goodbye night owl
Have you always thought you are not a morning person? Good news: your sleep-wake cycle is not set in stone.
Away with jetlag!
A holiday in a foreign country is lovely. Unfortunately, travelling to another time zone is
Heritability II: understanding the path from genes to disorders
By identifying genes that play a role in brain disorders, scientists try to get new insight into the causes of brain disorders, but are they succeeding?
Is “pregnancy brain” a thing?
Some women are more forgetful during pregnancy, while others feel the same as before. Scientific evidence shows that some forms of memory function can be impaired during pregnancy, but this is not the case for all cognitive processes. If pregnancy forgetfulness is in fact a thing, we should be careful with how we, as a society, interpret this.
Heritability: mapping the path from genes to disorders
Many psychiatric and some neurological disorders run in the family. But if the cause is
Do you care enough?
Characterized as the feeling of not feeling, apathy is more than just boredom and laziness. What does it look like?
What separates psychosis from belief?
People suffering from psychotic-like experiences tend to believe in surreal things. But do you believe