Understanding how the brain responds to sweets may be our best hope for controlling obesity.
Month: March 2015
Luis Suarez: Does anger management actually work?
Footballer Luis Suarez – who has twice bitten other players – has been offered an anger management course. But does such treatment work?
Why do babies calm down when they are carried?
Apr. 18, 2013 — Parents know that crying babies usually calm down when they are picked up and carried, but why is that? In a study published today, researchers from the RIKEN Brain Science Institute show that human babies and mouse pups alike automatically relax deeply when they are carried.
Internal Time: The Science of Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired
Debunking the social stigma around late risers, or what Einstein has to do with teens’ risk for smoking.
Daily Rituals
Entry 1: How novelists, painters, philosophers, and filmmakers find time each day to do their work.
Making fruit easier to eat increases sales and consumption in school cafeterias
Nathan Azrin, Behavioral Psychologist, Dies at 82
Dr. Azrin, an author of “The Token Economy,” a foundational text, helped alter the way psychologists approached behavior-modifying techniques.