In today’s post, we’re turning our attention towards a (yet another) mental disorder relatively often portrayed in the media, but still not fully understood or easily treatable: posttraumatic stress disorder (or PTSD, in short). The article addresses the following questions: What is PTSD? Who can get PTSD? What are the…

Estrogens represent a group of sex hormones usually known as “woman hormones”. But newer research has begun to show that they are much more than that. …

January marks the start of a new type of post here at Neurofrontiers: the “Week in review”. In these posts, we discuss briefly neuroscience topics which have caught our attention during the week. We hope you’ll enjoy it. 1. Neurophysiological markers could help us better diagnose mental and neurological disorders. Neurophysiological markers include both functional brain changes, measured via EEG (i.e., fast…

Last month, two amazing science communicators, @notbrainscience and @emilia.science, started the hashtag #YoungMindsNeedMore on Instagram. …

The placebo effect refers to the therapeutic response which occurs as a consequence of an inert treatment. The “treatment” in cause can be either a tablet, an injection or even surgery. Placebo interventions are used in clinical trials in order to determine whether a medical treatment has a true effect…

Generally speaking, the cerebral cortex can be divided into two categories: - sensory cortex (such as visual, auditory or somatosensory) - association cortex (such as the prefrontal cortex). As their name suggest, these types of cortex have different functions. Each type of sensory cortex is responsible for processing the information…

Toxic positivity refers to the belief that people should maintain a positive mindset in the face of any adverse situation, no matter how bad that is. …

It used to be important, maybe even fun, definitely something at which you were doing pretty well. But along the way, it somehow got spoiled. Instead of looking forward to it, now you dread going into work. Whenever the phone rings or an email arrives, your heart sinks. Tasks that…

Yes, you’ve heard it before: science is cool and fun and the brain in particular is a wonder of the Universe, it’s what makes us humans, so that’s why we should all care to learn about it as much as possible. But while for some people it might be extra…