Brain World
October 1st, 2014
While there’s no compulsive shopping gene, there are several theories about why people are more susceptible to addictive and obsessional behaviors. It might have a genetic basis, but Annie Gurton thinks the reality is addictions are more likely to have an environmental cause.
March 8th, 2016
Emotions might help explain another commonality to ghosts sightings. Along with the fact that they’re often visually unclear, many witnesses reporting particular feelings associated with them.
April 2nd, 2018
The drive to connect and communicate is in fact so strong it exists even in the absence of the communication methods most of us know – it’s a drive we can’t hold in any more than the instinct to eat or sleep.
March 21st, 2014
A healthy brain knows where you are the whole time you’re conscious. Somewhere in your head is the constant mental narrative that tells you where you are, which way up you are, and where you stop and the world around you begins.
September 16th, 2018
If you’ve ever become bored with eating the same kind of lunch every day, looked at your sleeping partner and wondered what you ever saw in them or regretted your career choice, you’ve felt the effects of one of our most highly developed survival mechanisms.
May 1st, 2016
As a cultural or religious practice, fasting has a long enough history some anthropologists might be tempted to think it has a biological or evolutionary basis.