Brain

Smelly Solution: How sniffing other people’s sweat can help with social anxiety

What if perspiration was the answer to social anxiety disorder? A Swedish research has found that people exposed to body odours saw a 39 per cent reduction in their scores when combined with mindfulness therapy

Breakthrough: A drug slows Alzheimer’s by 5 months, but will it make a big difference?

On Tuesday, Japanese drugmaker Eisai and its US partner Biogen reported that an experimental Alzheimer's drug had modestly slowed the brain disease's inevitable worsening. However, it is unclear how much of a difference this would make in people's lives

La La Land: Why do certain types of music make our brains sing

Our prediction of musical events remains inexorably bound to our musical upbringing. It is why every brain reacts differently to a piece

Explainer: What we know about post-recovery symptoms associated with 'long' COVID

The risk of long COVID is no longer directly linked with age or severity of the illness, so younger people and those with mild infection can still develop long-COVID as well.

World Brain Tumour Day 2021: Check types, symptoms and treatments to raise awareness about disease

The day was started by the German Brain Tumour Association in 2000 and since then, it is observed on 8 June every year

How can we still recognise familiar people even with them wearing a face mask?

In the study, participants were able to identify familiar faces in masks with around 90 percent accuracy.

Dementia risk higher in 50-70 year-olds who sleep for less than six hours, finds study

Almost 8,000 people participated since 1985 with them either self-reporting their sleep duration or wearing monitors.

New studies suggest brain size not associated with autism spectrum disorder but white matter development may be

Autism spectrum disorder refers to a range of conditions characterised by developmental delays and disability, difficulty in social interactions and repetitive speech and behaviours

Neuron web in human brain is similar to the network of galaxies in the Universe

They found that both systems are likely being shaped by “similar principles of network dynamics, despite the radically different scales and processes at play”.

Laser beams give neuroscientists new insights about brain’s 'inner GPS' system in mice study

This is the first demonstration of being able to retrieve memories of our environment using 'place cell' activation.