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In today’s fast-paced and frequently difficult world, being mentally resilient is crucial to overcoming a variety of obstacles and setbacks. The capacity to constructively respond to hardship, trauma, and stress is known as mental resilience, and it is essential for maintaining psychological and general well-being. Fortunately, people may strengthen their mental resilience and lay a …
A new study by researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland suggests that dreams – especially those that simultaneously appear realistic, but, upon a closer look, bizarre – help our brain learn and extract generic concepts from previous experiences. The study, carried out within the Human Brain Project and published in eLife, offers a new …
Image Credit: © RUB, Kramer Are animals or artificial intelligence capable of having consciousness? A new theory of consciousness provides experimental access to the study of this phenomenon. Not just in humans. Two researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have come up with a new theory of consciousness. They have long been exploring the nature of …
The human body is an incredibly designed machine, and mechanical processes such as those in the lymphatic system play major roles in maintaining healthy tissue and organs. Donny Hanjaya-Putra is an assistant professor whose work lies at the intersection of engineering and medicine. He studies the lymphatic system — the part of the immune system …
According to a recent study published in PLOS ONE from the University of British Columbia women with fewer social ties have been found to be more likely to struggle with obesity; men by contrast have lower risk of obesity if they have smaller social networks and live alone. The researchers focused on data from the …