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“Meow meow”? Dangerous “bath salts” for fun

“Meow meow”, "drone”, “bubbles”, "M-Cat” are cute names for a new class of designer drugs: Mephedrone. How dangerous are they?

Lorenza Colzato • 26-05-2014

Stress and Emotion

Brain scars

Bernet Elzinga, professor Stress-related Psychopathology at Leiden University, studies how trauma effects brain function and behaviour.

Bernet Elzinga • 26-05-2014

Human Potential

A famous statement of the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach is "Der Mensch ist, was er iβt" (you are what you eat), but is it really true that the food we eat modulates the way we think and perceive the world?

Lorenza Colzato • 11-02-2014

Human Potential

Refueling your mental engine, cheap and easy!

Ever feel like your brain is running out of fuel? Our study shows that eating the right food can give you back that edge needed to keep up your great performance. In fact, food is found to be an efficient and easy way to enhance your cognition!

Bryant Jongkees • 16-12-2013

Human Potential

Active bodies think more deeply

Active bodies think more deeply. This is the outcome of a study by cognitive psychologist Lorenza Colzato and her fellow researchers at Leiden University, published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

Lorenza Colzato • 02-12-2013

Human Potential · Stress and Emotion

Don't go to sleep!

Feeling down? Perhaps experiencing some winter blues? Sleep deprivation might be the answer. Neuroscientists at Tufts University have revealed an interesting mechanism behind this puzzling solution, by investigating the role of astrocytes.

Claudia Pama • 11-11-2013

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“Meow meow”? Dangerous “bath salts” for fun

Brain scars

Eating to stop

Refueling your mental engine, cheap and easy!

Active bodies think more deeply

Don't go to sleep!