Brain Area May Control Urge to Hoard
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Researchers may have located the area in the brain that separates the stamp collectors from the pack rats.
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Revenge, reprimand and schadenfreude really do feel good, according to a brain scan study published today. As well as explaining why Dirty Harry declared &quot;Go ahead, make
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Weaning yourself off a storage spending addiction is likely as difficult as quitting smoking. But whereas tobacco companies bear much of the fault for cigarette addiction, it would be unfair to ascribe the unstoppable increase in storage spending to storage vendors alone.
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U.S. researchers said on Wednesday   they had identified an "on-off" switch in the brain that   controls the emotional response to fear, and said it might some   day be manipulated to help patients with anxiety disorders.
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Use some psychological tricks and end up richer.
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Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day. Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even - and the amount of satisfaction actually predicts who will go to greater lengths to do so, report Swiss researchers who monitored people's brain activity during an elaborate game of double-cross.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health use a video game to help determine the link between the hippocampus and depression. In Game|Life.
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Manchester scientists pinpoint a part of the brain they think plays a major role in understanding concepts.
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NEW YORK  - A part of the brain involved in  both drug craving and judgment appears to be smaller in cocaine  addicts than in healthy people, researchers have found.
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NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters Life!) - Some elderly adults may be more susceptible to fraud because of changes in their brain that affect judgment and decision-making, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to dampen down the impact of bad memories in people's brains.
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New recordings of electrical activity in the brain may explain a major part of its function, including how it consolidates daily memories and why it needs to dream.
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NEW YORK  - Women who are consistently  overweight or obese during adulthood may be at increased risk  for a decrease in the volume of certain areas of their brain --  according to a study from Sweden
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Cocaine addicts have a smaller amygdala -- a brain structure that helps people judge the consequences of their actions -- than non-addicted people, claims research in the current issue of Neuron.
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WASHINGTON - Dirty Harry had it right: Brain scans show revenge really might make your day. Planning revenge sparks enough satisfaction to motivate getting even - and the amount of satisfaction actually predicts
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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Researchers have confirmed what common wisdom has long held -- that people can suppress emotionally troubling memories -- and said on Thursday they have sketched out how the brain accomplishes this.