Learning music in old age can prevent grey matter loss

Music is not only a pleasure for our brains, it seems that learning it at an…

Obesity hinders brain recognition of nutrient signals

Recent research has demonstrated that obesity impairs the mechanisms that allow our brains to realise when…

Losing the Y chromosome, bad for males, good for cancer

In humans, biological sex is determined by the chromosomes X or Y. People having a Y…

A lifetime of mental illness accelerates ageing

Mental illness is associated with accelerated ageing, namely with shorter life span and ageing-related diseases such…

Organoid intelligence: brains acting as computers

While for long in neuroscience, computers were used to model brain function, organoid intelligence, a new…

A single gene holds the key to male contraception

So far, contraception has been practically exclusive to women. They are the ones not only responsible…

Botox does not only remove wrinkles, it can also affect emotional processing

We reflect other people’s emotions through an ingrained, unconscious process. According to the facial feedback hypothesis,…

LSD potentiates brain plasticity, improving memory

Long disregarded as a party drug, loved by hippies and alternative thinkers, LSD has been recently…

A common brain network appears to connect psychiatric diseases

Typically, psychiatric diseases come more than one at a time. That is why patients often fit…

Intermittent fasting appears to improve quality of life in humans

Intermittent fasting, that is, eating only over certain time period during the day can have positive…