Premature babies appear to feel less pain during medical procedures when they are spoken to by their mothers, researchers have found. Babies that are born…
View More Hearing mother’s voice can lessen pain in premature babies, study suggestsTag: Neuroscience
Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life’
For centuries, philosophers have theorised about the mind-body question, debating the relationship between the physical matter of the brain and the conscious mental activity it…
View More Neuroscientist Anil Seth: ‘We risk not understanding the central mystery of life’David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’
David Eagleman, 50, is an American neuroscientist, bestselling author and presenter of the BBC series The Brain, as well as co-founder and chief executive officer…
View More David Eagleman: ‘The working of the brain resembles drug dealers in Albuquerque’Research reveals why some find the sound of others eating so irritating
Scientists have shed light on why everyday sounds such as chewing, drinking and breathing can be so maddening to some people that it drives them…
View More Research reveals why some find the sound of others eating so irritating‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?
In the summer of 1981, when he was 13, Grant crashed a trail motorbike into a wall at his parents’ house in Cambridgeshire. He’d been…
View More ‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?Scientists who discovered migraine mechanism win £1.1m Brain prize
Four scientists who discovered a key mechanism that causes migraines, paving the way for new preventive treatments, have won the largest prize for neuroscience in…
View More Scientists who discovered migraine mechanism win £1.1m Brain prizePeople with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggests
Our brains hold clues for the ideologies we choose to live by, according to research, which has suggested that people who espouse extremist attitudes tend…
View More People with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks, research suggestsOlive-stuffing and in-theatre piano: the brain surgeon breaking new ground
Playing the violin, watching cartoons and doing crosswords: these are just some of the activities patients have performed while having brain surgery under Roberto Trignani.…
View More Olive-stuffing and in-theatre piano: the brain surgeon breaking new ground