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Is it me or is it you? The role of oxytocin in distinguishing ourselves from others.

When experiencing empathy, do we actually make a distinction between ourselves and others? A study on oxytocin provides insight on this matter.

Batsheva Mannheim • 09-06-2015

Human Potential · Stress and Emotion

Can a mouse use a joystick?

Researchers in New Zealand designed a paradigm in which a mouse used a joystick to get reward. Surprisingly, mice were just as good as humans. How can this give insight in psychiatric disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Emine Gurbuz • 02-06-2015

Human Potential

A sound mind in a sound body across the life span

We all know it is important to stay fit. More particularly, aerobics exercising (exercising the heart) is important to improve physical and mental health. But why?

Laura Steenbergen • 25-05-2015

Human Potential · Social

Optimize adaptive behavior through meditation!

Stuck in a rut? When feeling that your thinking has become rigid, what should you do for promoting a more flexible thinking? Meditate!

Iliana Samara • 19-05-2015

Human Potential · Social

Do you see what you do?

The distinction between action and perception is not as sharp as you might think, which does not bode well for explanatory power of mirror neurons.

Evert Boonstra • 12-05-2015

Human Potential · Social

Reducing prejudice through brain stimulation

People show less prejudice after receiving low intensity electrical stimulation administered to the frontal part of the brain. Roberta Sellaro and Lorenza Colzato from the LIBC published their findings in Brain Stimulation.

Roberta Sellaro • 04-05-2015

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Is it me or is it you? The role of oxytocin in distinguishing ourselves from others.

Can a mouse use a joystick?

A sound mind in a sound body across the life span

Optimize adaptive behavior through meditation!

Do you see what you do?

Reducing prejudice through brain stimulation