Summary: Researchers have made a groundbreaking discovery, identifying a rare lipid as a crucial factor in ferroptosis, a unique form of cell death. This lipid, characterized by its two polyunsaturated…
Tag: neuroscience
The Impact of Borderline Personality Disorder on Jealousy and Relationship Retention
Summary: Individuals with borderline personality (BPD) features are more prone to suspicious jealousy, which significantly influences their romantic relationships. This suspiciousness leads to a range of mate retention behaviors, from…
Why We Learn Better From People We Like
Summary: Our brains favor learning from individuals we like over those we dislike, a phenomenon crucial for memory integration. Through experiments involving everyday objects, the study demonstrated that our ability…
Emotional Processing Influenced by Culture and Language
Summary: Recent research reveals that recognizing emotions through body language is not purely instinctual but culturally learned. Scientists in the US discovered that emotion category words like ‘disgust’ influence how…
Borderline Personality Disorder Linked to Increased Hospital Revisits
Summary: Patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are more likely to have recurrent hospital visits compared to those with other mental disorders. Analyzing over 86,000 episodes of care for…
Revolutionizing Memory Recall with Neural Prosthetics
Summary: Researchers made a landmark advancement in neural prosthetics, demonstrating the ability to recall specific memories using a newly developed memory decoding model (MDM). This breakthrough builds on previous research,…
Dance Your Way to Better Mental Health
Summary: Structured dance programs are as beneficial, and sometimes superior, to traditional physical activities for enhancing psychological and cognitive health. This systematic review and meta-analysis, involving a broad age range…
Cognitive benefits seen two years after bariatric surgery
Bariatric surgery (BS) is associated with cognitive benefits two years after surgery, according to a study published online Feb. 9 in JAMA Network Open. Emma Custers, from Radboud University Medical…
