Behavioral conformity has been studied extensively and is commonly explained in terms of social pressure or impact.
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Brain circuitry for positive vs. negative memories discovered in mice
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Push-pull control cinches causal connection — NIH funded studyNeuronal projections encoding negative (red) and positive (green) associations were often intertwined, perhaps hinting at…
An apple a day brings more apples your way
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We have all been told not to grocery shop on an empty stomach, but what other tips can help us shop, and consequently eat, healthier?
Study: A minority of women seek health care after military sexual assault
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Finding based on interviews with more than 1,300 women service members and veteransA female soldier loads a marker board into a vehicle during an inventory at a US base in Afghanistan in 2013.
Out-of-body experience triggered by researchers in a lab
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By inducing an out-of-body illusion in healthy adults, researchers have identified brain activity responsible for encoding our perceptions of body location.
New study links drinking behaviors with mortality
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Light drinkers reported surprisingly high percentage of problemsA new University of Colorado Boulder study involving some 40,000 people indicates that social and psychological problems caused by…
Higher levels of inattention at age seven linked with lower GCSE grades
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New research has shown that children who display increasing levels of inattention at the age of seven are at risk of worse academic outcomes in their GCSE examinations.
Brain scan reveals out-of-body illusion
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Neuroscientists have created an out-of-body illusion in participants placed inside a brain scanner. They then used the illusion to perceptually ‘teleport’ the participants to different locations in a room and show that the perceived location of the bod…
Light — not pain-killing drugs — used to activate brain’s opioid receptors
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Neuroscientists have attached the light-sensing protein rhodopsin to opioid receptor parts to activate the receptor pathways using light from a laser fiber-optic device. They also influenced the behavior of mice using light, rather than drugs, to activ…
What cause post-traumatic stress in combat?
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New findings provide potential explanations for the very high percentage of post-traumatic disorders in combat, as outlined in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.
