What secrets does the human brain hide? Latest discoveries in neuroscience & cognitive science and unbelievable facts about the human brain
Some when referring to sexual attraction insist that everything starts from the mind. As new research shows, everything ends there! U.S. researchers announced that they had solved one piece of the mystery of what happens in the brain during sex by monitoring the activity of the female brain during an orgasm.…
What if it was possible to control dreams and memories? Well, this idea may be more real than you imagine. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology managed to control the dreams of rats and change their course. In the future, the new achievement will probably allow scientists to "penetrate"…
Could physiological factors be responsible for near-death experiences? It could be that NDEs aren't that close to death after all. If you've ever experienced NDE, then you've felt a strange set of symptoms. Feelings of euphoria paired with the disconnection from your physical senses will leave you with an unforgettable…
Nothing is more intriguing than mysteries associated with the human body and mind. Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Strange, isn't it? Modern science is still puzzled by some of the features of human physiology and psychology, or the human body and mind. After all, humans never really question…
Just two months of conscious and proper practice of regular meditation seem to completely rebuild the human brain. This sensational conclusion was made by a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School. The results of the study were published in a special edition of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. The experiment was…
Whose memory is better, male or female? British researchers found that women have more developed memory than men. Perhaps, for this reason, ladies never forget anniversaries and things that happened a long time ago. :) Researchers from Cambridge University tested the memory of 4500 people aged 49 to 90 and found…
Can we trust our memory or does it play tricks on us? Have you ever been certain about a past event, which you seemed to remember quite well, just to find out that you were wrong? It is believed that our memory works in such a way that any of…
The fact that some people can see auras while others cannot is intriguing. Could it be an inborn gift or something that must be learned? According to a recent paper, researchers of the University of Granada first proposed a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of aura. The Spanish researchers say…
