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Actors Suppress Their ‘Self’ When Immersing in New Roles
Actors who immerse themselves in a new role can suppress their send of self, according to researchers at University College London. The research, published in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, suggests that when actors take on a new character, they may be able to suppress their everyday self – implying that theatre training may have a…
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Crossword Puzzles Better Than Video Games in Slowing Memory Loss in Older Adults
A new study by researchers from Columbia University and Duke University shows that doing crossword puzzles has an advantage over computer video games for memory functioning inolder adults with mild cognitive impairment. These adults doing crossword puzzles showed less brain shrinkage and better daily functioning. In a randomized, controlled trial, researchers determined that participants (average…
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Scientists Identify Brain Cells That Make Us Less Active When Sick
Scientists have found that a specific population of cells in the brainstem potently induce three telltale sickness behaviors — eating less, drinking less, and moving less. In addition, inhibiting these neurons blunts each of these behavioral elements of the sickness response. The findings directly link inflammation to neural pathways regulating behavior, offering insight into how…
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Fish Stocks Can Be Restored With Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management
Decades of overfishing, together with nutrient pollution, rapid increase in hypoxia, ocean warming and acidification have put fish and harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the western Baltic Sea at risk of collapse. But the commercially relevant stocks of cod (Gadus morhua), herring (Clupea harengus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) can be restored and prospects for marine…
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How We Talk to Babies is Similar Across Many Languages
A study by the University of York and Aarhus University has revealed that baby talk displays similar properties across 36 languages.
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Scientists Target Long Noncoding RNAs to Treat Cancer
Scientists are targeting a type of genes called “long noncoding RNAs (Ribonucleic acids)” (lncRNAs) to target for cancer treatment. Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of lung cancer. Over 2 million people were diagnosed with lung cancer in 2020. The Dark Matter of the Genome For new targets, they looked at…
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Eating More Omega-3s Can Improve Your Brain Structure and Cognition at Midlife
You can preserve brain health and enhance cognition in middle age by eating more cold-water fish and other sources of omega-3 fatty acids, according to a recent study.
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Nitrous Oxide, or Laughing Gas, May Indicate Life on Other Planets
The chemical nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, may be a biosignature of life, according to astrobiologists. Chemical compounds in a planet’s atmosphere that could indicate life, called biosignatures, typically include gases found in abundance in Earth’s atmosphere today. This conclusion, and the modeling work that led to it, are detailed in an article published today…
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Do a Mind-Body Practice to Lower Blood Sugar Levels
Researchers showed that doing mind-body practices like yoga and meditation are almost as effective as drugs at reducing blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes.
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Bears May Really Be Omnivores
A new study shows that bears are omnivores like human, and feeding them like carnivores may slowly kill them. Carnivore like cats consume a high-protein diet. The researchers in the study said bears eat more of a lower protein diet like omnivores. In zoos, feeding bears as carnivores may be slowly killing them. In separate…