The Emotional Bee: Honey Badgers, Cocaine and Dancing Bees Honeybees exhibit behaviors that could be interpreted as negative emotions. Does that mean that insects have emotions? And what does it mean that cocaine makes bees dance more? Jon Lykke • November 24, 2015
Let go of the pain - Cognitive Disengagement through Mindfulness Can a meditation technique like mindfulness be the key to a non-pharmacological treatment for pain? Recent research suggests it can but there might be a flipside to these findings. Lavinia Przyborowski • November 03, 2015 • 1 comment
Improved learning without extra effort? The popularity of online lectures increases daily but is it as effective as we think? Students easily lose track when there is no interaction. Frequent testing of students has shown to improve retention of information. Mattanja Pauw • October 27, 2015 • 3 comments
How to run away from your problems The runner finds his exercise fun and relaxing, yet the body’s stress response is activated.This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective: running after your meal or running to not become one is stressful. How can it be that the runner isn't stressed? Saskia Heijnen • August 18, 2015 • 1 comment
Can a mouse use a joystick? Researchers in New Zealand designed a paradigm in which a mouse used a joystick to get reward. Surprisingly, mice were just as good as humans. How can this give insight in psychiatric disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? Emine Gurbuz • June 02, 2015
The beneficial effects of Tai Chi Anyone visiting the Far East might see them, slowly and elegantly moving, on the grass or between the trees, most of them elderly: people practicing Tai Chi Chuan. Roderik Gerritsen • April 28, 2015
Less focused on recurrent bad feelings through probiotics People are focusing less on bad feelings and experiences from the past (i.e. rumination) after four weeks of probiotics administration. Watch our video now! Laura Steenbergen • April 14, 2015
Combat exam anxiety and stress with Yoga Exam anxiety and stress can influence performance negatively. Yoga may be a solution to lower stress and improve the general and mental wellbeing. Valerie Junk • March 24, 2015 • 1 comment
“Your pain is my pain”: how empathy works Is it really true that “your pain is my pain”? Yes, people feel others’ pain. But how does empathy work in the brain? Roberta Sellaro • March 03, 2015
