SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover). (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: This isn’t based on any research; it’s a cover of a girl in red… Read the rest “SONG: “Serotonin” (a penitential girl in red cover)”
Alright, I know what you animals really want. You want that hit of this stuff – the good stuff. Social media, gambling, narcotics, sky diving – all comes down to putting this … Read the rest “Science Art: Dopamine 3D spacefill, by Jynto.”
Science Daily shows how UC-Davis researchers are teaching mice how to consciously control the dopamine in their brains, turning on the reward centers of their brain… in order to … Read the rest ““Willful” control of the brain’s feel-good chemical.”
Not sure if “symptoms” is quite the right word here, but it’s what MIT News is using. Apparently, it’s been noticed for around a decade and half that when autistic… Read the rest “Infections reduce autism symptoms – because an immune-system molecule affects a part of the brain.”
Science Daily has (rather densely written) research showing how specific drugs could not only stop dementia but reverse its effects:
… Read the rest “Researchers reverse dementia.”A lack of knowledge about cellular pathways critical
Quartz reveals the poisonous problem with poor sleep habits:
… Read the rest “Sleep cleans your brain. And lack of sleep, we now know, causes toxins to build up.”[R]esearchers now believe wastes are forcefully pushed through the brain at a much faster and higher pace, according to Maiken
Science Daily reports on UC Berkeley research into a chemical that makes you a nicer person:
… Read the rest “Compassion pills.”A new study by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco researchers finds that giving a drug that changes
IFL Science takes another look (courtesy of ISI Foundation researchers) at magic mushroom trips, and finds some surprises in what exactly psilocybin mushrooms do to your brain:
… Read the rest “No, *this* is your brain on drugs. All interconnected….”
BBC News asks a rather interesting question based on a curious correlation. Worldwide crime rates dropped, on average, at about the same time we stopped putting lead in gasoline:
… Read the rest “Did unleaded gasoline lower our crime rate?”For most
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men from trusting attractive women… Read the rest “An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.”
MedicalXpress reports that Swedish and Iranian researchers might have identified a way to diagnose autism physically, by checking biomarkers in blood plasma:
… Read the rest “A blood test for autism.”In the current study disruptions
CBC News is reporting that the University of Ontario has found a connection between autistic behavior and digestion:
… Read the rest “Eating for autism?”UWO researchers investigated the “gut-brain” connection
It’s fairly well known that men react slightly differently to women when the women are ovulating. What the New York Times reveals is that men in relationships are less attracted to… Read the rest “Smell of fertility.”
ArsTechnica explores the way music intoxicates us – with dopamine:
… Read the rest “Music makes us high.”To learn more about the music/brain/stimulation process, the McGill researchers followed subjects through
BBC reports on what appears to be (oversimplifying here) a hormonal link between skepticism and aggression:
… Read the rest “Testosterone, the fact-checking hormone.”To test the impact of testosterone on trust, the study authors from Utrecht
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