Fructose not only results in a lower level of satiety, it also stimulates the reward system in the brain to...

Traffic lights, neon-lit advertisements, a jungle of road signs. When learning to drive, it is often very difficult to distinguish...

Aging is associated with significant decline in cognitive functions. But does this translate into poorer decision making? Psychologists from the...

The stronger our memory is of a certain food, the more likely we are to choose it - even if...

Every third teenager has suffered from one mental disorder and one physical disease. These co-occurrences come in specific associations: More...

Those suffering from depressive symptoms have an increased risk for physical diseases, especially for arthrosis and arthritis. These findings were...

Teenagers who own smartphones spend more time online - also during the night, which may affect their sleep. A new...

Neurons in the brain are wired like a social network, report researchers from Biozentrum, University of Basel. Each nerve cell...

Women rate emotional images as more emotionally stimulating than men do and are more likely to remember them. However, there...

Green tea is said to have many putative positive effects on health. Now, researchers at the University of Basel are...

In order to function properly, the human brain requires the ability not only to store but also to forget: Through...

First on top of the world and then in the depths of despair – this is what the extreme mood...

Many psychiatric disorders are accompanied by memory deficits. Basel scientists have now identified a network of genes that controls fundamental...

Humans with a high motor excitability have a better working memory than humans with a low excitability.

Through analysis of the human genome, Basle scientists have identified molecules and compounds that are related to human memory.