Science / Psychology and Neuroscience
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Academics often research minority communities in the hope of helping them. But too much time under the microscope can cause ...
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Volunteers let an AI scan their messages from more than a year before they received a psychiatric diagnosis. It was ...
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The FDA has given NightWare clearance to market a “digital therapeutic” device that uses an Apple Watch to interrupt PTSD-related ...
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How do humans perceive color? An NIH experiment finds a way to measure what happens after light hits the eye—using ...
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Electrodes threaded through the blood vessels that feed the brain let people control gadgets with their minds. http://www.wired.com/
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People tend to focus on whether an experience ends on an up note or a sour one, even if it ...
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Researchers showed that a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn’t ...
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I loaned my head to the world’s first fMRI study on the effects of salvinorin A, a potent psychedelic. Here’s ...
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Cool research tool? Definitely. A way to remotely control a computer or a prosthetic? Sure. But reading minds and storing ...
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Optical illusions can be a useful tool for studying how we see stuff, but it’s hard to uncover just how ...