Some people just can’t seem to keep a beat.
You know the ones: They seem to be swaying to their own music or clapping along to a beat only they can hear. You may even think that describes you.
Category: research
A.D.H.D. Experts Re-evaluate Study’s Zeal for Drugs
Twenty years ago, more than a dozen leaders in child psychiatry received $11 million from the National Institute of Mental Health to study an important question facing families with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: Is the best long-term treatment medication, behavioral therapy or both?
The amazing brains of the real-time interpreters
The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time interpreting of one language to another. Yet human interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable ability.
7 charts that explain the undocumented immigrant population
President Obama’s executive order on immigration could exempt from deportation more than five million undocumented immigrants — almost half of the total undocumented population in the country, which is about 11.5 million (depending on the data you’re looking at). The population is vast and diverse, coming from different countries and living in very different proportions in different states.
We took a look at some of the demographic breakdowns of the group pulled together by the Pew Hispanic Trends Project and the Department of Homeland Security.
When Yogurt Affects the Brain
Gut bacteria play a role in mood and emotion. Are probiotics the key to a better antidepressant?