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Relaxing on the sofa or savoring a delicious meal: Enjoying short-term pleasurable activities that don’t lead to long-term goals contributes at least as much to a happy life as self-control, according to new research. The researchers therefore argue fo…

College students were more anxious, depressed and sedentary during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 than they were during similar academic terms in other years, according to a multiyear study using mobile sensing.

Two groups of nerve cells may serve as ”on-off switches” for male mating and aggression, suggests a new study in rodents. These neurons appear to send signals between two parts of the brain – the back tip, or posterior, of the amygdala and the hypoth…

Primates with large brains can master more complex hand movements than those with smaller brains. However, fine motor skills such as using tools can take time to learn, and humans take the longest of all. Large-brained species such as humans and great …

Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. A new study identifies the olfactory cell types most vulnerable to infection by the novel coronavirus. Surprisingly, sensory neurons involved in smell ar…

The brain never processes the same information in the same way. Scientists have found out why this is the case and how it works. A decisive role plays a critical state of the neuronal networks.

The thalamus is a ‘Grand Central Station’ for sensory information coming to our brains. Almost every sight, sound, taste and touch travels to our brain’s cortex via the thalamus. Researchers now report that the somatosensory part of the thalamic reticu…

We inherit half of our genes from each parent. For their function of most genes, it doesn’t matter which parent a gene comes from. But this is not true for all genes: about 150 genes are subject to ”genomic imprinting”. They are active either only if…

Researchers demonstrated the relationship between improvements in zebrafish’s hunting skills and the development of sensory coding in a part of the brain which responds to visual stimuli.

Researchers have conducted one of the first studies of its kind to quantify the happiness of married, formerly married and single people at the end of their lives to find out just how much love and marriage played into overall well-being.