By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Teenage boys with conduct disorder have trouble recognising emotions in facial expressions, research funded by the Wellcome Trust has revealed.
The study found that people diagnosed with conduct disorder before the age of ten have an impaired ability to recognise anger, disgust and happiness in facial expressions, while [...]
This week the Nature podcast team discover a 35,000 year-old figurine with exaggerated breasts, look back to the origins of RNA, look forward to a new light source that could replace ugly fluorescent strip lights, and ask: is free will an illusion?
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This week WBS has mostly been watching:
Jared Diamond evil? An ongoing case accuses him of — shock, horror — misrepresenting the facts, accusing a tribe in Papua New Guinea of revenge-driven acts of murder, rape and theft, and prompting a $10 million lawsuit against the New Yorker, who carried the article.
If that wasn’t [...]
By Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
Our short-term memory is configured to remember angry faces better than happy or neutral ones, Trust-funded researchers have found.
Our brains are thought to use emotional connotations as a way to recall information better. Long-term memory seems to favour positive information, but the new study shows that this is [...]
Feature article by Mun-Keat Looi for the Wellcome Trust website.
As recently as the late 1980s, clinicians mistakenly believed that newborn babies did not feel pain. We are now beginning to understand just how different pain processing is in infants, progress that promises tremendous clinical benefits for those in intensive care.
Pain, unpleasant though may be, is [...]