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The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between personality traits, mental health variables and media use among German students. The data of 633 participants were collected. Results...

Scientific Reports - A cognitive fingerprint in human random number generation

The hippocampus shrinks in late adulthood, leading to impaired memory and increased risk for dementia. Hippocampal and medial temporal lobe volumes...

ランニングの楽しさに目覚め、休日はもちろん、仕事前や仕事後に走り始めるビジネスパーソンが増えている。出張先で知らない街を走ったり、タウンユースにも使えるスタイリッシュなランニングシューズの存在も...

People perform better on tests of delayed free recall if learning is followed immediately by a short wakeful rest than by a short period of sensory stimulation. Animal and human work suggests that...

Nature - A study of neuronal activity in rats finds that sleep loss adversely affects hippocampal function and memory by dissociating hippocampal sharp-wave ripples from memory replay and...

Memory reconsolidation is hypothesized to be a mechanism by which memories can be updated with new information. Such updating has previously been shown to weaken memory expression or change the...

There is lack of research on effects of red wine on consciousness when drank in wine bars designed to enhance the pleasurableness of the wine drinking experience. Effects of a moderate dose of red...

Although essential for psychology, introspective self-talk has rarely been studied with respect to its effects on behavior. Nevertheless, the interrogative comp...

Nature - Precision functional mapping shows that the frontostriatal salience network occupies nearly twice as much of the cortex in people with depression, and this was unaffected by mood changes...

There are two conflicting perspectives regarding the relationship between profanity and dishonesty. These two forms of norm-violating behavior share common caus...

Nature Genetics - Danielle Posthuma and colleagues perform a large meta-analysis for intelligence and determine genetic overlap with several neuropsychiatric and metabolic traits. They find 15 new...

This cohort study describes mental disorder life histories across 4 decades among participants in the Dunedin Study.

Whereas a categorical difference in the genitals has always been acknowledged, the question of how far these categories extend into human biology i...

Nature Communications - Sleep dysregulation has been linked to dementia, but it is unknown whether sleep duration earlier in life is associated with dementia risk. Here, the authors show higher...

Nature Aging - Understanding the molecular changes underlying aging is important for developing biomarkers and healthy aging interventions. In this study, the authors used comprehensive multi-omics...

Abstract. Caffeine is commonly used to combat high sleep pressure on a daily basis. However, interference with sleep–wake regulation could disturb neural h

Adaptive social behavior and mental well-being depend on not only recognizing emotional expressions but also, inferring the absence of emotion. Whi...

Contrary to the law of less work, individuals with high levels of need for cognition and self-control tend to choose harder tasks more often. While both traits can be integrated into a core construct...

Technology to restore the ability to communicate in paralyzed persons who cannot speak has the potential to improve autonomy and quality of life. An approach that decodes words and sentences direct...

Nature Human Behaviour - Askelund et al. show that remembering more specific positive life experiences is associated with fewer negative self-related thoughts and lower levels of stress hormones in...

Male pregnancy is a unique phenomenon in syngnathidae which refers to embryo or fetus incubation by males. However, whether male mammalian animals have the potential to conceive and maintain pregna...

This cohort study uses data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study to estimate the association of playing high school football in the 1950s with cognitive impairment and depression at 65 years of age.

Since chronic restriction of sleep to 6 h or less per night produced cognitive performance deficits equivalent to up to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation, it appears that even relatively moderate...

Nature Human Behaviour - An individual’s social ties contain up to 95% of the potential predictive accuracy achievable about that individual. In principle, a social platform may therefore...

Nature Communications - Household income is used as a marker of socioeconomic position, a trait that is associated with better physical and mental health. Here, Hill et al. report a genome-wide...

Helping behavior between humans has been one of the most influential forces sculpting modern civilizations, but what factors influence this propensity to help? This study demonstrates that a lack of...

Using playback experiments, Corvin et al. show that current parents of young babies are able to identify a baby’s pain cries even if they have never heard this baby before, whereas inexperienced...

Nature Neuroscience - Makin and colleagues decode speech from neural signals recorded during a preoperative procedure, using an algorithm inspired by machine translation. For one participant...

Current models of mental effort in psychology, behavioral economics, and cognitive neuroscience typically suggest that exerting cognitive effort is...

Averaging independent numerical judgments can be more accurate than the average individual judgment. This “wisdom of crowds” effect has been shown ...

Sexual arousal, exposure to aphrodisiac pheromones, or mere activation of peripheral pheromone-sensing neurons can modulate sleep homeostasis and are able to counteract the effects of sleep depriva...

Nature Communications - Mice have been shown to display a fear response upon observing another mouse undergo fear conditioning. Here, the authors show that ethanol facilitates socially evoked fear...

Nature Human Behaviour - Using a speed dating paradigm, Prochazkova et al. show that attraction was predicted by physiological synchrony in heart rate and skin conductance between two individuals.

Individuals on social media may reveal themselves to be in various states of crisis (e.g. suicide, self-harm, abuse, or eating disorders). Detecting crisis from social media text automatically and...

Scientific Reports - Balance training improves memory and spatial cognition in healthy adults

Nature Neuroscience - Kappes et al. report a new confirmation bias mechanism. When faced with disagreement, a reduction in the neural sensitivity to the confidence of others is observed leading to...