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More than 80 percent of people around the world consider themselves to be religious or spiritual. But research on the neuroscience of...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 23, 2021
- 1 min
How to Hallucinate (Without Drugs)
I felt I could reach through the screen to get to another place. Lasers became entire fans of light sweeping around, and then it felt as...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
Wisdom vs Loneliness
Research over the last decade has shown that loneliness is an important determinant of health. It is associated with considerable...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 31, 2021
- 4 min
Perfect Diagnosis of ADHD
A new study led by a University at Buffalo researcher has identified how specific communication among different brain regions, known as...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 23, 2020
- 3 min
Word Recognition is Pre-Written
Humans are born with a part of the brain that is prewired to be receptive to seeing words and letters, setting the stage at birth for...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
Fear vs Anxiety Debate
Anxiety, the most common family of mental illnesses, has been pushed to epic new heights by the COVID-19 pandemic. A report by an...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 11, 2020
- 3 min
Binge Alcohol-Lose Empathy
People who binge-drink show more extensive dysfunction across their brains than previously realised, a new study from the University of...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 10, 2020
- 5 min
Adolescent Risk Taking: Key Brain Development Identified
As any parent will tell you, no two children behave in exactly the same way. It is part of what makes each individual unique. So, why do...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 10, 2020
- 2 min
Alcohol Dementia Revealed
A common consequence of chronically high alcohol consumption is a decline in cognitive function, which can even progress to full-blown...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 10, 2020
- 4 min
Is God a Pattern?
In training and lectures on personality, I describe the five key traits of our temperament. One of these traits is Openness to...
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Phil Harris
- Aug 19, 2020
- 2 min
Mechanism for Trauma Memory Identified
The endogenous regulation of a specific gene is associated with a reduced risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder following a...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 1, 2020
- 3 min
Trauma: Distance Matters
The human brain operates on many levels. When we consider things which are distant in time, space or intimacy the rational brain tends...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 15, 2020
- 5 min
Name Emotion Tame Emotion
I was recently looking for some research on a separate project and came across this early pioneering study in language and emotional...
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Phil Harris
- Mar 6, 2020
- 4 min
Sub-Types of Schizophrenia Identified
Psychiatrists led by Nikolaos Koutsouleris from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have used a computer-based approach to...
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Phil Harris
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
AI: Predicts Responsiveness to Depression Treatment
Artificial intelligence may soon play a critical role in choosing which depression therapy is best for patients. A national trial...
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Phil Harris
- Jan 14, 2020
- 6 min
Infection: What Role Does it Have in Schizophrenia?
My first day back at work in 2020 was with a fantastic team of mental health housing workers. We had an extensive debate on the role of...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 19, 2019
- 1 min
Pain: Is it a Personality Thing?
Recent advances in neuroscience are unlocking how the major personality traits are linked to neural systems. One personality trait,...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 12, 2019
- 4 min
How Nightmares Help Us
Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 6, 2019
- 3 min
How to Control Sadness
Impulsive shopping can be a costly vice for people who are eager to escape emotional pain, but researchers have now discovered a strategy...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 3, 2019
- 3 min
Men are from Mars....
The amygdala and the hippocampus -- structures in the brain that are involved in emotion, learning, and memory -- have been found to play...
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