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Fearless – Literally
A study conducted on a woman who cannot experience fear may hold the key to treating PTSD patients
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The Playful Brain
In their book "The Playful Brain: The Surprising Science of how Puzzles Improve Your Mind," neuroscientist Richard Restak and “puzzle master” Scott Kim lay out the science of improving your brain
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Intentionality and Morality in Human Judgment
Professor Joshua Knobe studies intentionality and morality, and his findings reveal that the way we view the world is constantly colored by moral conceptions
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Evolution of the Cerebral Cortex Makes Us Human
One year past Darwin’s bicentennial, Yale has often been in the news for research on evolution. Down at the Yale School of Medicine, however, researchers are at the forefront of another type of evolutionary
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Prosopagnosia – Whose Face is It?
Prosopagnosia is a selective and often severe deficit in the ability to recognize others’ faces. People suffering from the disorder are often unable to recognize their friends and family members by face alone
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fMRI: Uncertain Uncertainties
MIT graduate student Ed Vul recently stirred up the field of neuroscience with a paper claiming that the technique of "non-independent analysis" inflates correlations between cognitive performance measure and brain activity as measures by
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Ears Can’t Take All the Credit: Facial Expressions Influence Hearing
In a recently published paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Takayuki Ito and colleagues at the Haskins Laboratory tested whether stretching a subject’s skin in a certain direction while streaming
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Hold That Thought: Professor Receives Award to Study Intelligence
Jeremy Gray, Assistant Professor of Psychology, is one of these researchers. Gray received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) to further his research on the link among emotion, self-control, and
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Memory and Emotion: What Rats can Teach Us
The neurobiological substrates of memory and emotion have eluded neuroscientists for decades, but Yale’s researchers are shedding light on the mechanisms by which our brains remember by exploring emotional memory processing in rats
Read More »Everyday Q&A: How do SSRIs work?
The most popular type of antidepressant today is the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), such as Prozac, Zoloft, or Lexapro, introduced in
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