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Need to Quit Smoking? Study Finds Self-Control Deep in the Brain
A war that consists of a series of momentary self-control skirmishes: That’s how a new study describes the process of pursuing goals such as quitting smoking. But using a novel research approach, the authors—Elliot Berkman
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Revealing the Wiring that Allows Us to Adapt to the Unexpected
Wouldn’t life be easy if everything happened as we anticipated? Luckily we have the orbitofrontal cortex, the area of the brain that adapts to the unexpected to make and monitor predictions about the world. Patients
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Your love is my drug: looking at partner’s photo reduces pain
The Med Guru: Forget medication and therapies, a recent study by Stanford University in California, U.S., suggests that just looking at the partner’s photograph relieves the pain as much as taking a drug like cocaine.
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Following the Crowd: Brain Images Offer Clues to How and Why We Conform
HealthCanal: What is conformity? A true adoption of what other people think—or a guise to avoid social rejection? Scientists have been vexed sorting the two out, even when they’ve questioned people in private. Now three
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The Neurology of Schadenfreude
An experiment involving fans of Major League Baseball’s most intense rivals unearths a particularly troubling aspect of finding pleasure in others’ pain.
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New Research From Psychological Science
The Insula and Evaluative Processes Gary G. Berntson, Greg J. Norman, Antoine Bechara, Joel Bruss, Daniel Tranel, and John T. Cacioppo The insula has been implicated in evaluative and affective processes. New findings indicate that
