neuroscience

Why showing pain helps

The attention and comfort generated minimizes how bad or stressful an injury feels – and that’s not just in humans…

7 years ago

Deep thought and cold noses

Non-obtrusive thermal cameras help researchers confirm a significant link between the two Facial temperatures, which can be measured with a…

8 years ago

Reflections on the brain

Researchers put their heads together at the 2017 Society for Neuroscience conference – to spectacular effect P Rajendran As far…

8 years ago

Better ways to stimulate the brain

Sound, light and current help researchers to tweak grey matter function in both health and disease P. Rajendran Nuance is…

8 years ago

Imaging links toolmaking with human smarts

A researcher describes how getting modern people to make Stone Age tools shows what brain power our ancestors needed to…

8 years ago