by Jennifer Latson
I am 22 when it first occurs to me that migraines will impede my projected path through…
“…animal experiments show that caffeine may reshape the biochemical environment inside our brains in ways that could stave…
In a tiny, tiny study, women who ate probiotic yogurt were able to match “a series of angry or fearful faces on a computer screen to other faces that appeared” in less-emotional ways than women who didn’t, apparently.
“This is not proof that loneliness causes dementia; the reverse could be true.”
Just as we once knew that infectious diseases killed, but didn’t know that germs spread them, we’ve known intuitively that…
“We found that a very common sleep drug can be used to increase verbal memory. … This is the first study to show you can manipulate sleep to improve memory. It suggests sleep drugs could be a powerful tool to tailor sleep to particular memory disorders.” — Hm. Ambien may help…
by Steph Koyfman
These are the three songs used in a psychological study about whether mood affects moral decision-making…
by Jessica Grose
In 2008 I started a single topic Tumblr that never went anywhere. It was called I…
