A new study suggests that different types of laughter – joyful, mocking and tickling – make the brain react in different ways. A laugh may signal mockery, humour, and joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of …
A new study has found that playing video games can delay the ageing process and playing a video game for even ten hours can make your mind seven years younger. Older people who play video games found that the mental challenges …
In our last post on new age alternative therapies, we talked about how they are also taking several steps forward to keep up with the fast-paced lives. Last week we talked about Craniosacral therapy– a method which works on …
A new US study found that psychopaths lack the basic hard-wiring in the brain the enables most people to feel compassion or caring. ‘A marked lack of empathy is a hallmark characteristic of individuals with psychopathy,’ said …
Short bursts of brain activity may help protect from Alzheimer's, says a study conducted by researchers in Israel. Evidence indicates that the accumulation of amyloid-beta proteins, which form the plaques found in the brains of …
Unhappy with the tardy progress in initiatives to deal with the outbreak of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh, the government has fixed time lines for completion of pending projects, an official …
German scientists have implanted pacemakers in the brains of patients suffering from depression, with remarkable results. Researchers from the Bonn University Hospital implanted pacemaker electrodes into the medial forebrain …
Scientists have shown that a compound in old drugs can provide a new approach to treating a rare disease affecting children globally, says a study. Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis is playing a leading role …
What makes us happy? Family? Money? Love? How about a peptide? For the first time, scientists have found a link between happiness and levels of a chemical within the body, which could offer hope for patients with psychiatric …
In a recent study, scientists have proposed a new portable gadget that could help one detect strokes based on eye movement. A bedside electronic device that measures eye movements can successfully determine whether the cause of …
In a path breaking study that could help develop new therapeutic devices for Parkinson's patients, US scientists have successfully worked out how to identify abnormal brain rhythms associated with the disease. A team of …
Billy’s mother had three children. The first was named April and the second May. What was the name of the third child? Chances are your first response was, even if mental and not out loud, June. But give it a few seconds and it …
The exam season is around the corner and students can already feel the nerves jangling and the stress setting in. One of the flipsides of exams is that our normally healthy diet goes for a toss and we end up eating a lot of …
According to a new research, the folds of our brains that show up in scans could give clues about whether a new romance is likely to be more lasting. Scientists detected distinctive patterns of electrical activity in the brains …
