Giving “targeted” social support to people in need activates regions of the brain involved in parental care, according to a new study. And that may help researchers understand the positive health effects of social ties. The study was published in August 2018 in Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, the journal of the American Psychosomatic… Continue reading “Parental” Regions of Brain Activated by Helping Others
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Why We Can’t Always Stop What We’ve Started
When we try to make a last-minute decision to stop a body movement, perhaps to keep ourselves from stepping on what we just realized was ice, we can’t always do it — and Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists have figured out why. The researchers found that stopping a planned behavior requires extremely fast choreography between several… Continue reading Why We Can’t Always Stop What We’ve Started