Sex, drugs and estradiol: why cannabis affects women differently
Females use and experience cannabis differently to males -- and neuroscience is beginning to explain why, says new review; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
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The smell of lavender is relaxing, science confirms
A new study shows that the famous relaxing effects of lavender rely on sense of smell; Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
Should ethics or human intuition drive the moral judgments of driverless cars?
People may not be happy with ethical decisions made by their self-driving cars: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
Analyzing past failures may boost future performance by reducing stress
Duke, Rutgers & University of Pennsylvania researchers show for first time how writing about past failures helps boost future performance: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
Childhood aggression linked to deficits in executive function
Primary school kids with lower planning and self-restraint skills are more likely to show increased aggression in middle childhood, report University of Potsdam researchers in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
New path into bipolar disorder comes to light
Research reveals a novel potential drug target and offers new insights into the underlying biology of bipolar disorder: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
Top articles in 2017: Frontiers in Neuroscience Journal series
3,350+ articles published this year, from 17,400+ authors [...]
Do violent communities foster violent children?
Children and adolescents regularly confronted with violence have a greater tendency to show antisocial behavior, shows a study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]
Lost in time and space: How challenges change the way you think
Research in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience shows that challenging situations make it harder to understand where you are and what's happening around you. [...]
Binge drinkers show similar changes in brain activity as chronic alcoholics
Distinctive changes in brain activity in binge-drinking college students may be an early marker of brain damage, reports a study in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. [...]
Brain injury in kids might lead to alcohol abuse
Researchers find evidence that traumatic brain injuries in children and adolescents could be a risk-factor for alcohol abuse in later life [...]
Self-driving cars may soon be able to make moral and ethical decisions as humans do
Can a self-driving vehicle be moral, act like humans do, or act like humans expect humans to? New study has found that human morality can be modeled. [...]
Menstruation doesn’t change how your brain works — period
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience study suggests that hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle have no impact on aspects of cognition [...]
A way out of the junk-food eating cycle
Study shows that junk-food is habit-forming in rats – but that the habit could easily be broken by pairing it with the right environmental cues. [...]
Genes for speech may not be limited to humans
Study shows vocal communication in mice is affected by the same gene needed for speech in humans [...]
