What is Love: Falling in Love Causes Changes in Our Brain

What is Love Since the beginning of time, poets have asked themselves what is love, believing this

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What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?

Today we’re looking at another rare medical condition called Todd’s syndrome AKA Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AIWS).

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Apotemnophilia – Wanting To Lose A Limb

Today we will be looking at a rare condition called Apotemnophilia – including why it occurs, what

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Cognitive Trauma: What you need to know

Cognitive trauma in relation to brain impairment is not something that is greatly known, due to its

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Motion Sickness: An explanation to traveling nausea

As a kid, I never felt motion sick- ever. I would go on the craziest of carnival

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Fear: Everything you need to know about being scared

In the famous words of Franklin Roosevelt, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!”,

Anna Bohren

Brain Gym: 16 Activities That Will Help Your Brain Stay Younger

Brain Gym for a healthy mind. A few years ago, we started to learn about the importance

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Not Sure If You Should Take The Leap? Cognitive Benefits of Learning Foreign Languages

We may not look back on our foreign language classes at school with much fondness.However, after reading

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Sex differences in the brain: Is there a male and a female brain?

For many years, science has tried to explain how women and men are different beyond sexual traits. On

Marcela Salazar

Money doesn’t buy happiness; or does it?

We’ve all dreamt about winning the lottery. We day dream about what we would buy with our

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Brain seizures: When The Brain Has Too Much Energy

Brain seizures: Some of us have to deal with them every single day, whilst others can be

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Amygdala: The powerhouse of emotions

Our brain is a palace of structures. It dictates everything we do, how we think, how we

Jessica Taylor

Non-Native Accent in the Job: The Problems

In a world that is becoming smaller and smaller, a mix of different cultures becomes more prevalent

Patrick Agresz

Cerebellum: Much more than motor coordination

It is likely that a few seconds ago before you arrived here you were typing on your

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The Comfort Zone: Benefits of Staying or Leaving

The comfort zone. It contributes to making us feel mentally safe in our everyday life. Developing a

Patrick Agresz

Left Brain, Right Brain: 9 Ways Our Brain Hemispheres Work Together

What are the functions of each brain hemisphere? What does each half of our brains do? Is

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Peer Pressure: Why We Feel It, How to Overcome it, and Can It Be Positive?

Peer Pressure. When we hear the phrase ‘peer pressure’ we often think back to grade school. We

Julien Meyers

Synesthesia: Can You Hear Colors?

What is it like to hear colors and see sounds – people who have synesthesia might be

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CogniFit evaluates the capabilities of astronauts in the space mission: Poland Mars Analogue Simulation (PMAS)

CogniFit participates in the “space race” to reach Mars by assessing the cognitive performance of astronauts under

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Shopping Addiction: How does it start and how to overcome it?

Shopping Addiction. Have you ever gone to the supermarket for a couple of things and ended up

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Pregnancy Changes the Brain: Does Pregnancy Brain Have Negative Effects Long Term?

Pregnancy changes the brain. She took her pregnancy test and it was confirmed, she was going to

Puja Sethi

Emotional Contagion: Everything You Need to Know

Emotional Contagion. Have you ever been in a bad mood and all of a sudden it seems

Clara Morris

Korsakoff Syndrome: inventing memories to compensate forgetfulness

Korsakoff syndrome is a memory problem that is usually due to alcohol abuse or overly restrictive diets

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Hippocampus: the orchestra director in the deepest part of our brain

Hippocampus. Have you ever gone blank and forgotten what you were going to say? Our brain is

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