What do depression and the immune system have in common?
The emerging field of neuroimmunology offers a new approach to treating depression. How exactly do
The emerging field of neuroimmunology offers a new approach to treating depression. How exactly do
A holiday in a foreign country is lovely. Unfortunately, travelling to another time zone is
New methods of combining different types of brain structure can now tell us how individual differences relate to human characteristics and behavior.
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?
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.
Have you ever wished for superpowers like flying, supernatural strength or senses? Some people actually
Many psychiatric and some neurological disorders run in the family. But if the cause is
Scientists use statistics in order to generalize findings from small groups of participants to entire populations. Learn how they can do that with the help of a galactic friend.
Characterized as the feeling of not feeling, apathy is more than just boredom and laziness. What does it look like?
In science, we not only try to show correlations between things, but we also try to say something about the underlying cause and what its effect is (causation). In most cases, we can only investigate correlations. It is thus important to know how causation works.