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In the News . . .

• Your gut microbes may influence how you handle stress – MPRNews (24 June 2024)
  
  
• Salty much? These brain cells decide when tasty becomes blech – MPRNews (23 November 2023)
  
  
• Scientists Witness Patients' Brains 'De-Aging' After Changing Their Diet -- science alert (12 June 2023)
  
  
• How gut bacteria are controlling your brain -- BBCFuture (22 January 2023)
  
  
• How our brains cope with speaking more than one language -- BBCFuture (19 July 2022)
  
  
• Scientists Discover That This Type of Diet Can Shrink Brains -- SciTechDaily (08 August 2022)
  
  
• How to trick your brain into better eating habits -- The Guardian (17 May 2022)
  
  
• Certain gut microbes may affect stroke risk and severity, scientists find-- The Guardian (04 May 2022)
  
  
• Can -- Certain Foods Really Stave Off Dementia? -- The New York Times (21 April 2022)
  
  
• We finally know why the brain uses so much energy -- LiveScience (09 December 2021)
  
  
• The myth behind food cravings -- BBCReel (07 September 2021)
  
  
• What happens to your brain when you give up sugar -- BBCfuture (18 August 2021)
  
  
• Can Fruits and Vegetables Boost Brain Health? -- The New York Times (09 August 2021)
  
  
• Why it's good to let your mind wander -- BBCReel (06 July 2021)
  
  
• Do we really use 10% of our brain? -- BBCReel (01 June 2021)
  
  
• The gender biases that shape our brains -- BBC Future (24 May 2021)
  
  
• Research reveals why some find the sound of others eating so irritating -- The Guardian (24 May 2021)
  
  
• The curious case of the man with 'two minds' -- BBCReel (19 March 2021)
  
  
• I'm A Nutritional Psychiatrist & This Is What I Eat In A Day For Stellar Brain Health -- mbghealth (10 March 2021)
  
  
• Neuroplasticity: How to rewire your brain -- BBCReel (05 March 2021)
  
  
• The psychedelic power of the Sonoran Desert toad -- BBCReel (10 February 2021)
  
  
• Can you really have a 'photographic' memory? -- BBCReel (02 February 2021)
  
  
• This Eating Habit Is Making Your Brain Age Faster, Study Says -- Yahoo!Life (11 January 2021)
  
  
• Opinion | What the Science of Addiction Tells Us About Trump -- POLITICO (12 December 2020)
  
  
• Hey, There's a Second Brain in Your Gut -- Popular Mechanics (11 December 2020)
  
  
• Your Brain Is Not for Thinking -- The New York Times (23 November 2020)
  
  
• How to function in times of uncertainty -- BBCworklife (04 November 2020)
  
  
• How Your Brain Tricks You Into Taking Risks During the Pandemic -- ProPublica (02 November 2020)
  
  
• How Getting A Dog Changes Your Brain, According To Neuropsychologists -- Bustle (18 September 2020)
  
  
• Hunting in savanna-like landscapes may have poured jet fuel on brain evolution -- PhysOrg (16 June 2020)
  
  
• Researchers find a western-style diet can impair brain function -- The Guardian (18 February 2020)
  
  
• Better Brain Health: We Are What We Eat. Raphaël Hitier (Dir.) (2019, 42:25 min, CC) -- Deutsche Welle (DW) [German Public Broadcasting Service] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLpbfOJ4bJU&feature=youtu.be
  
  
• Do you know when you're being manipulated? -- BBCReel (25 November 2019)
  
  
• Math looks the same in the brains of boys and girls, study finds -- MPR News (08 November 2019)
  
  
• Do we think differently in different languages? -- BBCideas (24 October 2019)
  
  
• The sexist myths that won't die -- BBC Future (30 September 2019)
  
  
• The weird power of the ice cream van tune -- BBCReel (09 September 2019)
  
  
• Changing your diet can help tamp down depression, boost modod -- MPRNews (09 October 2019)
  
  
• Gladwell, Malcolm. 2019. Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know. NY: Little, Brown, and Co.
  
  
• Fake news is 'reinforced by false memories' -- BBCnews (22 August 2019)
  
  
• Will we ever control the world with our minds? -- BBCfuture (15 August 2019)
  
  
• Why your first memory is probably wrong -- BBC Ideas (05 August 2019)
  
  
• The trick that makes you overspend -- BBC Worklife (02 August 2019)
  
  
• Neuroscientists decode brain speech signals into written text -- The Guardian (30 July 2019)
  
  
• Zebrafish exhibit brain activity similar to REM sleep -- ScienceNews (10 July 2019)
  
  
• Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying -- The New York Times (28 January 2019)
  
  
• What is the best age to learn a language? -- BBCfuture (25 October 2018)
  
  
• Man Dies from Extremely Rare Disease After Eating Squirrel Brains -- LiveScience (15 October 2018)
  
  
• A new type of neuron lurks in the human brain, and we have no idea what it does -- Popular Science (28 August 2018)
  
  
• Nightshifts disrupt rhythm between brain and gut, study shows -- The Guardian (09 July 2018)
  
  
• The time our personality changes most: How our teenage years shape our personalities -- BBCfuture (11 June 2018)
  
  
• Food firms could face litigation over neuromarketing to hijack brains -- The Guardian (25 May 2018)
  
  
• The brain science that explains ‘hanger’ -- BBCfuture (25 April 2018)
  
  
• Exercise benefits to the brain 'may be passed on' -- BBCNews (11 April 2018)
  
  
• Can Deep Brain Stimulation Make Patients Too Happy? -- The Atlantic (21 March 2018)
  
  
• It's not just in the genes: the foods that can help and harm your brain -- The Guardian (12 February 2018)
  
  
• A mindful approach to the year: will your brain thank you for it? -- Medium.com, Oxford University (n.d.)
  
  
• How feeling bad changes the brain -- BBCfuture (15 January 2018)
  
  
• Does eating chocolate make brains younger? -- BBCPlayerRadio (14 December 2017)
  
  
• The human brain’s bandwidth for visual images is severely limited -- Aeon Ideas (18 December 2017)
  
  
• Babies' brains damaged by pollution, Unicef says -- BBCNews (06 December 2017)
  
  
• Um, uh, huh? Are these words clues to understanding human language? -- MPRnews (23 November 2017)
  
  
• Las Vegas shooter's brain to undergo microscopic study -- The Guardian (29 October 2017)
  
  
• Dyslexia link to eye spots confusing brain, say scientists -- BBCNews (18 October 2017)
  
  
• Magic mushrooms can 'reset' depressed brain -- BBCNews (14 October 2017)
  
  
• Neanderthal brains 'grew more slowly' -- BBCNews (22 September 2017)
  
  
• What happens in the brain to make us 'catch' yawns -- BBCNews (01 September 2017)
  
  
• How lack of sleep affects the brain -- BBCNews (26 June 2017)
  
  
• Facebook shares brain-control ambitions -- BBCNews (19 April 2017)
  
  
• What gave some primates bigger brains? A fruit-filled diet -- MPRNews (28 March 2017)
  
  
• A change in diet may have helped our brains get so big -- BBCearth (27 March 2017)
  
  
• Elon Musk, His New Company, and Science -- Brian Ahier, LinkedIn (28 March 2017)
  
  
• Fish oil does not benefit baby intelligence, study finds -- BBC News (22 March 2017)
  
  
• Anorexia 'improved by electrode therapy' -- BBC News (24 February 2017)
  
  
• Brain Connection -- Posit Science
  
  • ["Originally featured in The Scout Report in 2002, BrainConnection has expanded substantially while continuing to be an engaging resource about how the brain works and how people learn. Some resources, such as those in the Brain Teasers & Games section, will appeal to younger learners. Most resources, however, have been curated for parents, educators, and the generally curious. Readers will find accessible information about everything from sleep to reading and language to child development in the Library tab Similarly, in Brain Basics, readers will find detailed information about a number of brain concepts that will be helpful for anyone looking to better understand new scientific news or research. Topics covered here include brain plasticity, the relationship between the brain and vision, and the impact of caffeine on the brain."] -- MMB, The Scout Report, February 24, 2017, Volume 23, Number 8
    
    
• The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate -- The Atlantic (13 February 2017)
  
  
• Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry -- BBCNews (03 February 2017)
  
  
• How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains -- BBCearth (27 January 2017)
  
  
• You probably suffer from scattered brain syndrome -- BBCcapital (12 December 2016)
  
  
• The artist who makes music with her brain -- BBCfuture (09 December 2016)
  
  
• DNA clue to how humans evolved big brains -- BBCNews (07 December 2016)
  
  
• The Purpose of Sleep? To Forget, Scientists Say -- The NewYork Times (02 February 2017)
  
  
• The 7 Ways Donald Trump Influenced Voters' Brains -- Psychology Today (12 November 2016)
  
  
• How the brain powers placebos, false memories and healing -- MPRNews (08 November 2016)
  
  
• BrainCraft -- PBS Digital Studios
  
  • ["How do your limbic systems and prefrontal cortex inform your tendency to procrastinate? How has art played a role in human evolution? Why do so many people love sugar - and can it actually be an addiction? These questions and more are explored in BrainCraft, a PBS Digital Series dedicated to "psychology, neuroscience, and why we act the way we do." Created by science educator and report Vanessa Hill, new 4-6 minute episodes of BrainCraft are released each week. These highly entertaining and informative episodes may be viewed on BrainCraft's YouTube Channel, a link to which is provided in the Episodes section of this website. Those active on Facebook or Twitter may also want to follow the show via social media to learn about new episode topics."] -- MMB, The Scout Report, November 18, 2016, Volume 22, Number 45
    
    
• Why obesity damages your mind as well as your body -- BBCfuture (01 November 2016)
  
  
• Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests -- The Guardian (01 November 2016)
  
  
• US Army testing krill oil for warfighters’ cognitive performance -- NUTRAingredients (13 September 2016)
  
  
• Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning -- Scientific American (07 September 2016)
  
  
• The Brain Assigns Symbolism to Inanimate Objects -- ScienceNordic (07 September 2016)
  
  
• Neurophilosophy -- The Guardian
  ["The Guardian hosts a regular Neurophilosophy blog dedicated to news stories and research related to Neurophilosophy. Authored by neurobiologist Mo Costandi, the Neurophilosophy blog covers a wide range of topics, including new research about the relationship between gut bacteria and the brain; research about the relationship between both conscious and unconscious thoughts and the experience of pain; and the development of artificial skin that can recognize heat and touch. Costandi writes in an engaging, accessible style and covers topics that will be of interest to anyone fascinated by human biology. There are also reference links for those who want to further pursue a given topic. Neurophilosophy contains all of Costandi's most recent articles; but visitors may want to check out Costandi's personal blog (which readers can find a link to by clicking on his name at the top of the page) for information about his other writing endeavors." -- MMB, The Scout Report, August 26, 2016, Volume 22, Number 34]
  
  
• Reconstructing Brain Surgery as It Was Conducted Around 3,000 Years Ago -- Siberian Times (16 August 2016)
  
  
• This Is Your Brain on Sentences -- ScienceDaily (15 August 2016)
  
  
• Brain Region Associated with Generosity Uncovered -- LiveScience (15 August 2016)
  
  
• Signs of Pure Altruism Converge in the Brain and Increase With Age -- EurekAlert (15 August 2016)
  
  
• Large Human Brain Evolved as a Result of 'Sizing Each Other Up' -- ScienceDaily (12 August 2016)
  
  
• How Did Primate Brains Get so Big? -- ScienceDaily (11 August 2016)
  
  
• Why Being Bilingual Works Wonders for Your Brain -- Guardian (17 August 2016)
  
  
• 'This is your brain on drugs': fried egg PSA is updated for a new generation -- The Guardian (09 August 2016)
  
  
• How the brain could be the next doping battleground -- The Telegraph (09 August 2016)
  
  
• Scans reveal how teenage brain develops -- BBCNews (25 July 2016)
  
  
• Neandertal Baby Brains May Have Grown Like Ours -- Science (25 July 2016)
  
  
• Prosopagnosia: How face blindness means I can't recognise my mum -- BBCNews (01 July 2016)
  
  
• Uncharted Territory: New Study Maps 180 Distinct Regions in the Brain -- The Scout Report, July 22, 2016, Volume 22, Number 28
  
  
• How A Team Of Elite Doctors Changed The Military's Stance On Brain Trauma -- NPR (10 June 2016)
  
  
• This man had no idea his mind is ‘blind’ until last week -- BBCfuture (25 May 2016)
  
  
• Large Human Brain Evolved Thanks to Increased Metabolic Rate -- Guardian (04 May 2016)
  
  
• Bigger brains led to bigger bodies in our ancestors -- Heritage Daily (18 April 2016)
  
  
• The very real pain of ‘imaginary’ illnesses -- BBCfuture (08 April 2016)
  
  
• Hippocampus Makes Maps of Social Space, Too -- Science News (05 April 2016)
  
  
• Foods To Eat For Good Brain Health -- The Huffington Post Australia (30 March 2016)
  
  
• Brain places energy needs over sweet taste: Mouse data -- Will Chu, FoodNavigator (29 March 2016)
  
  
• What is the real reason we sleep? -- BBCEarth (18 March 2016)
  
  
• The enormous power of the unconscious brain -- BBCFuture (16 March 2016)
  
  
• Can you really trick your brain to work more efficiently? -- BBCcapital (10 March 2016)
  
  
• A Whole Field of Psychology Research May Be Bunk. Scientists Should Be Terrified -- Slate (06 March 2016)
  
  
• By Land or by Sea: How Did Early Humans Access Key Brain-Building Nutrients? -- Scientific American (01 March 2016)
  
  
• The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain -- BBCNews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• The Fundamentals of Neuroscience -- Harvard University [Students at Harvard University who are interested in neurobiology have a number of resources at their disposal, including this joint online/on-campus class on the Fundamentals of Neuroscience. Lucky for the rest of us, the online version of the course is available here for free. Interested readers may like to begin by perusing the many course materials on the landing page, including two introductory videos to the course; featured trailers on the subjects of Optogenetics, MDMA + PTSD, and Deep Brain Stimulation; and module lesson excerpts about Excitation and Inhibition, The Synapse, and others. The full course is available after an easy sign-up and includes engaging lectures and assignments from some of the most qualified instructors in the world. [CNH, The Scout Report, February 19, 2016, Volume 22, Number 7.]
  
  
• New Study Shows That Fish Really Is Brain Food -- Forbes (08 February 2016)
  
  
• New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’ -- New York Times (08 February 2016)
  • Lending Her Ears to an M.I.T. Experiment -- New York Times (08 February 2016)
    
    
• Sorry, Bogie, A Sigh Is Not Just a Sigh -- NPR (08 February 2016)
  
  
• New Estimate Boosts the Human Brain's Memory Capacity 10-Fold -- Scientific American (05 February 2016)
  
  
• Julvez, Jordi, et al. Maternal Consumption of Seafood in Pregnancy and Child Neuropsychological Development: A Longitudinal Study Based on a Population With High Consumption Levels. American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 183, Issue 3 (01 February 2016), pp. 169-182.
  
  
• Deciphering the Language of the Brain -- Scientific American (31 January 2016)
  
  
• Why anxiety makes people veer to the left: Scientists have discovered that feeling anxious makes people very to the left because their right hand side of the brain is so active -- The Telegraph (20 Janaury 2016)
  
  
• Fish Consumption During Pregnancy Boosts Babies' Brain Development, Study Shows -- HNGN (19 January 2016)
  
  
• Intelligence genes discovered by scientists -- Telegraph (21 December 2015)
  
  
• Down From the Trees, Humans Finally Got a Decent Night’s Sleep -- New York Times (17 December 2015)
  
  
• ASMR [Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response]: What's going on inside my brain? -- BBCNews (16 December 2015)
  
  
• How music, language shape the brain -- ScienceDaily (14 December 2015)
  
  
• Neuroscientist Shows What Fasting Does To Your Brain & Why Big Pharma Won’t Study It -- CEcollective-evolution (11 December 2015)
  
  
• Male and female brains are the same, but people are all different – and that gives me hope -- Guardian (04 December 2015)
  
  
• Your Brain Is a Mosaic of Male and Female -- LiveScience (01 December 2015)
  
  
• First Language Wires Brain for Later Language-Learning -- ScienceDaily (01 December 2015)
  
  
• Scans prove there's no such thing as a 'male' or 'female' brain -- NewScientist (30 Novemer 2015)
  
  
• The Brains of Men and Women Aren’t Really That Different, Study Finds -- Science (20 November 2015)
  
  
• Bilingual people twice as likely to recover from a stroke -- The Telegraph (19 November 2015)
  
  
• A Genetic Map Hints at What Makes a Brain Human -- NPR (18 November 2015)
  
  
• Recognizing the basic structure of language is not unique to the human brain -- ScienceDaily (17 November 2015)
  
  
• The Best Brain Food Listed In One Handy Chart [Brain Food Pyramid] -- Huffpost (16 November 2015)
  
  
• Take a journey through the sleeping mind -- BBCNews (01 December 2015)
  
  
• Are paedophiles' brains wired differently? -- BBCNews (24 November 2015)
  
  
• Brain Rhythms Sync to Musical Beat -- Scientific American (10 November 2015)
  
  
• Why does ice cream give you 'brain freeze'? -- BBCFuture (17 September 2015)
  
  
• Early human diet explains our eating habits -- Phys.org (31 August 2015)
  
  
• How language gives your brain a break -- ScienceDaily (03 August 2015)
  
  
• Babies' Brains Show That Social Skills Linked to Second Language Learning -- ScienceDaily (27 July 2015)
  
  
• Brain Area Found That May Make Humans Unique -- Nature (23 July 2015)
  
  
• The Benefits of Natural Spaces May Be Greater than We Think -- The Scout Report, July 31, 2015 -- Volume 21, Number 29
  
  
• The Blue Brain Project -- Lausanne, Switzerland
  
  
• Understanding the Brain -- NSF Special Report
  
  
• Athletic visualization: How to train your brain to win -- MPRNews (09 July 2015)
  
  
• Peeking into the brain's filing system -- BBC (05 July 2015)
  
  
• Human Brain May Contain a Map for Social Navigation -- EurekAlert (01 July 2015)
  
  
• Redrawing the Language Map of the Brain -- ScienceDaily (25 June 2015)
  
  
• What Gut Bacteria Do to the Human Brain -- The Atlantic (24 June 2015)
  
  
• Animal Behaviour: Inside the Cunning, Caring and Greedy Minds of Fish -- Nature (26 May 2015)
  
  
• How to learn with zero effort -- BBC (01 May 2015)
  
  
• After Learning New Words, Brain Sees Them as Pictures -- ScienceDaily (2015-03-24)
  
  
• 9 facts about emotional memories and recall -- MPRNews (24 March 2015)
  
  
• Mapping 'Switches' That Shaped the Evolution of the Human Brain -- ScienceDaily (05 March 2015)
  
  
• Are humans getting cleverer? -- BBC News (01 March 2015)
  
  
• Britain’s Oldest Brain -- York Archaeological Trust (01 March 2015)
  
  
• Gene That Makes Human Brain Unique Identified by Scientists -- Guardian (26 February 2015)
  
  
• How Does the Human Brain Tackle Problems It Did Not Evolve to Solve? -- EurekAlert (25 February 2015)
  
  
• Sound of Mom’s Voice Boosts Brain Growth in Premature Babies -- Science (23 February 2015)
  
  
• Neuroscience & the Classroom: Making Connections -- Annenberg Learner
  
  
• What Makes Us Altruistic – and What's It Good for? -- New Scientist (02 February 2015)
  
  
• Scientists Try Out 2,300-Year-Old Brain Surgery Techniques -- Smithsonian (30 January 2015)
  
  
• Eight Genes That Make Us Brainiacs -- Science (21 January 2015)
  
  
• Men and Women Process Emotions Differently -- EurekAlert (20 January 2015)
  
  
• Why you can’t tickle yourself -- BBC News (09 January 2015)
  
  
• Sleep: How to nap like a pro -- BBC News (07 January 2015)
  
  
• Brain scans show rich people display less empathy -- Ana Swanson, Washington Post (06 January 2015)
  
  
• The Biology Of Altruism: Good Deeds May Be Rooted In The Brain -- NPR (22 September 2014)
  
  
• Scientists 'make telepathy breakthrough' -- BBC News (06 September 2014)
  
  
• Monkey Leaders and Followers Have 'Specialised Brains' -- BBC News (02 September 2014)
  
  
• Why Do Humans Grow Up So Slowly? Blame the Brain -- Science (25 August 2014)
  
  
• Taung Child's brain development not human-like? CT scan casts doubt on similarity to that of modern humans -- Science Daily (25 August 2014)
  
  
• Fish really IS brain food: Eating ANY type once a week is good for your memory -- Daily Mail (04 August 3014)
  
  
• Your Brain's Got Rhythm, And Syncs When You Think -- NPR (17 June 2014)
  
  
• Speaking two languages benefits the aging brain -- Science Daily (02 June 2014)
  
  
• Humans Evolved Weak Muscles to Feed Brain's Growth, Study Suggests -- National Geographic News (27 May 2014)
  
  
• Does Brain Structure Determine Your Political Views? -- BBC News (19 May 2014)
  
  
• Human Evolution 'Definitely Not' Over, Expert Says -- LiveScience (17 May 2014)
  
  
• Our Brains Are Hardwired for Language -- Science Daily (17 April 2014)
  
  
• Language Universals Engage Broca's Area -- PLoS ONE (17 April 2014)
  
  
• Why Do We Love to Organise Knowledge Into Trees? -- New Scientist (07 April 2014)
  
  
• 'Homo' Is the Only Primate Whose Tooth Size Decreases as Its Brain Size Increases -- Science Daily (03 April 2014)
  
  
• Whoa There! Brain Area Found to Help Spot Bad Decisions -- Guardian (18 January 2014)
  
  
• Brains of Elderly Slow Because They Know So Much -- Telegraph (20 January 2014)
  
  
• New Record for Human Brain: Fastest Time to See an Image -- LiveScience (17 January 2014)
  
  
• In the Human Brain, Size Really Isn’t Everything -- The New York Times (26 December 2013)
  
  
• Men and women's brains are 'wired differently -- BBC News (03 December 2013)
  
  
• How Many Friends Can Your Brain Handle? -- LiveScience (14 November 2013)
  
  
• Learning Dialects Shapes Brain Areas That Process Spoken Language -- ScienceDaily (18 October 2013)
  
  
• Did Africa's Great Lakes Boost Our Ancestors' Brains? -- NewScientist (16 October 2013)
  
  
• Human Brain Boiled in Its Skull Lasted 4000 Years -- NewScientist (03 October 2013)
  
  
• Busted! Most in US Believe Brain Disease Myths -- LiveScience (25 September 2013)
  
  
• The Roots of Creativity Found in the Brain -- LiveScience (16 September 2013)
  
  
• Left Brain vs. Right: It's a Myth, Research Finds -- LiveScience (03 September 2013)
  
  
• An Evaluation of the Left-Brain vs. Right-Brain Hypothesis with Resting State Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging -- PLoS ONE (14 August 2013)
  
  
• Brain Scan Study to Understand Workings of Teenage Mind -- BBC News (14 May 2013)
  
  
• Humans Evolved Flexible, Lopsided Brain -- LiveScience (23 April 2013)
  
  
• Obama seeks $100M to unlock mysteries of the brain -- Alex Mooney, CNN (02 April 2013)
  
  
• Easing Brain Fatigue With a Walk in the Park -- The New York Times (27 March 2013)
  
  
• Obama proposes $100M for brain mapping project -- MPRNews (02 April 2013)
  
  
• Brain Size Didn't Drive Evolution, Research Suggests -- LiveScience (26 March 2013)
  
  
• High-Res Brain Scans to Reveal Personality Traits -- Discovery News (06 March 2013)
  
  
• Obama Seeking to Boost Study of Human Brain -- New York Times (17 February 2013)
  
  
• How researchers shaped the White House's brain-mapping initiative -- NBC News (18 February 2013)
  
  
• New Project Would Map The Human Brain -- NPR (18 February 2013)
  
  
• Identity of Famous 19th-Century Brain Discovered -- Discovery News (29 January 2013)
  
  
• Battle of the Sexes: How Women and Men See Things Differently -- National Geographic News (30 November 2012)
  
  
• Men and Women Really Do See Things Differently -- National Geographic News (07 September 2012)
  
  
• Brain's 'Reading centres' Are Culturally Universal -- Nature (26 November 2012)
  
  
• Meat, Cooked Foods Needed for Early Human Brain -- LiveScience (19 November 2012)
  
  
• Invention of Cooking Made Having a Bigger Brain an Asset for Humans -- Guardian (22 October 2012)
  
  
• Why you will never sleep on a plane if a baby is crying -- Telegraph (17 October 2012)
  
  
• Brain's Decision-Making Spot Found -- LiveScience (21 August 2012)
  
  
• Evolutionary Increase in Size of the Human Brain Explained: Part of a Protein Linked to Rapid Change in Cognitive Ability -- ScienceDaily (16 August 2012)
  
  
• What Does the Way You Count on Your Fingers Say About Your Brain? -- Guardian (26 June 2012)
  
  
• What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Self-Control -- NPR (22 June 2012)
  
  
• Study Finds Emotion Reversed in Left-Handers' Brains -- EurekAlert (02 May 2012)
  
  
• Study Reveals Why Lefties Are Rare -- LiveScience (27 April 2012)
  
  
• Being Bilingual 'Boosts Brain Power' -- BBC News (01 May 2012)
  
  
• Matters of the Brain: Why Men and Women Are So Different -- LiveScience (01 May 2012)
  
  
• From the Minds of Babes -- New York Times (30 April 2012)
  
  
• Cooperation Is a Key To Intelligence -- Discovery News (10 April 2012)
  
  
• Why Emotions Are Attention-Getters -- Science News (10 April 2012)
  
  
• The Split Brain: A Tale of Two Halves -- Nature (14 March 2012)
  
  
• How Many Neurons Make a Human Brain? Billions Fewer Than We Thought -- Guardian (28 February 2012)
  
  
• Understanding the Brain on Dance -- BBC News (27 January 2012)
  
  
• Man shoots nail into brain without noticing -- BBC News (20 January 2012)
  
  
• Spaghetti Western Reveals Differences Between Human and Monkey Brains -- Guardian (05 February 2012)
  
  
• The Social Mind: Brain Region Bigger in Popular People-- Live Science (31 January 2012)
  
  
• Human Nature and the Neurobiology of Conflict -- Wired (26 January 2012)
  
  
• What If Humans Were Twice as Intelligent? -- Live Science (14 January 2012)
  
  
• Why Aren't We Smarter Already? Evolutionary Limits On Cognition -- ScienceDaily (07 December 2011)
  
  
• Human Brains Unlikely to Evolve Into a 'Supermind' as Price to Pay Would Be Too High -- ScienceDaily (07 December 2011)
  
  
• Costs of 'Expensive' Human Brain Still Up For Debate -- Live Science (09 November 2011)
  
  
• Myths About Our Minds -- BBC News (07 November 2011)
  
  
• IQ 'can change in teenage years' -- BBC News (19 October 2011)
  
  
• Young Human-Specific Genes Correlated With Brain Evolution -- ScienceDaily (19 October 2011)
  
  
• Brain 'Rejects Negative Thoughts' -- BBC News (09 October 2011)
  
  
• Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives -- The Intersection (07 September 2011)
  
  
• Language Speed Versus Efficiency: Is Faster Better? -- EurekAlert (01 September 2011)
  
  
• Localizing Language in the Brain -- EurekAlert (30 August 2011)
  
  
• Bilingual Babies' Vocabulary Linked to Early Brain Differentiation -- EurekAlert (29 August 2011)
  
  
• Human Brain Responds To Animals, Cute Or Creepy -- NPR (01 September 2011)
  
  
• Humans Hardwired to Tune Into Animals -- Discovery News (29 August 2011)
  
  
• People from Polar Regions Have Bigger Brains -- Discovery News (26 July 2011)
  
  
• Age-related brain shrinking is unique to humans -- BBC News (26 July 2011)
  
  
• Baby's Brain Wired for Human Sounds -- Live Science (30 June 2011)
  
  
• How City Living Stresses the Brain -- LiveScience (22 June 2011)
  • How Cities Stress Us Out -- Discovery News (22 June 2011)
    
    
• Cutting Edge Training Developed the Human Brain 80,000 Years Ago -- EurekAlert (21 June 2011)
  
  
• Research Shows Autism May Have Had Advantages for Hunter-Gatherers -- Past Horizons (07 June 2011)
  
  
• The End Is Always Nigh in the Human Mind -- NewScientist (07 June 2011)
  
  
• Human Brain Limits Twitter Friends -- Cosmic Log, MSNBC (01 June 2011)
  
  
• Bilingualism No Big Deal for Brain, Kansas Researcher Finds -- EurekAlert (21 May 2011)
  
  
• Geometry Skills Are Innate, Amazon Tribe Study Suggests -- BBC News (24 May 2011)
  • Geometric Principles Appear Universal in Our Minds -- Wired (24 May 2011)
  • Are Math Skills Built In To The Human Brain? -- NPR (27 May 2011)
    
    
• Psst! The Human Brain Is Wired For Gossip -- NPR (20 May 2011)
  
  
• Tiny Variation in One Gene May Have Led to Crucial Changes in Human Brain -- ScienceDaily (16 May 2011)
  
  
• Brains of Buddhist Monks Scanned in Meditation Study -- BBC News (23 April 2011)
  
  
• Evolution of Human 'Super-Brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-Making -- EurekAlert (20 April 2011)