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March 27, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Why Your Brain Gets Fooled on April Fools

SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- With the prankster’s holiday coming up on April 1st, it seemed a good time to ask one of the world’s top brain scientists about what is happening in...
February 12, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

This Valentine’s Day: Your Brain on Love

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oscar Wilde observed that love is even more mysterious than death. But, can’t love be distilled down to chemical processes in the brain? That...
January 08, 2019 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Keeping New Year’s Resolutions: Your Brain and Commitment

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- It’s only a week into the new year, but people are already well along in failing at new year’s resolutions. An estimated 80 percent will be abandoned...
February 27, 2018 08:00 ET | Source: Posit Science

Dr. Merzenich Returns to Public Television

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The science of brain plasticity is the subject of special documentary program for public television entitled “Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael...