- Benefits of psychedelics in obsessive-compulsive disorder: LSD and psilocybin have strong potential for providing long-lasting relief of patients’ symptoms. These findings could pave the way for large-scale clinical trials https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/actualite/benefits-of-psychedelics-in-obsessive-compulsive-disorder-looking-for-evidence/ 13 comments science
- Researchers have shown that ordinary sleepers, intermittently during almost all stages of sleep, can pick up verbal information transmitted by a human voice and respond to it by contracting their facial muscles https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/actualite/sleep-is-open-to-the-world-we-can-respond-to-verbal-stimuli-while-sleeping/ 72 comments science
- A study conducted on humans, using functional imaging and behavioral testing, led to identify a region of the brain where the decision to procrastinate is made: the anterior cingular cortex. The team also developed an algorithm to predict participants’ tendency to procrastinate https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/actualite/in-the-brains-of-procrastinators/ 87 comments science
- Study shows an association between dream emotions and the different types of eye movements observed during REM sleep: "rapid eye movements in bursts may be important for digesting negative emotions during REM sleep,” explains Jean-Baptiste Maranci, first author of the study https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/actualite/emotions-during-sleep/ 19 comments science
- How our knowledge of the world embedded in brain connectivity shapes our creativity. Scientists found real-life creativity relies on individual differences in semantic memory organization that can be predicted from brain functional connectivity. https://institutducerveau-icm.org/en/actualite/how-our-knowledge-of-the-world-embedded-in-brain-connectivity-shapes-our-creativity/ 3 comments science