Body’s transformation during and after pregnancy is universally recognized but what about the mothers’ brains? Is the animal instinct something depending on the environment or something ancestral, or does it come from the brain? A …
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Give flowers: received flowers produce positive moods
Recent studies of wellbeing and psychology prove that flowers have immediate and long-term effects on emotional reactions, mood, social behaviors and even memory for both males and females. Women who received flowers reported more positive …
Forever love: the thermodynamics second law tells us how it can exist
The nowadays love’s crisis Nearly few thousand of scientific articles each year have been written about emotion. The number has grown exponentially in the last thirty years; growth has also occurred in related areas, contributing …
Allergies are another symptom of the climate change
It’s well-known that the immune dysregulation contributes to an increase in immune-mediated diseases such as asthma, in general allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, and cancer. This dysregulation is often caused by environmental stressors, that are responsible …
What if happiness was a muscle?
It is globally accepted that our mind’s health depends both on our biology and genetics and on other environmental factors. In particular: lifestyle habits and routine behaviors, the level of self-esteem or childhood experiences; the …
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Yesterday, October the 2th, The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base …