Would you notice if fake news changed your behavior? An experiment on the unconscious effects of disinformation

What would you do if it were your kid?

An You Imagine What Your World Would Be like If You Could No Longer

The brain senses the world indirectly because the sense organs convert stimulation into the language of the nervous system: neural messages. We get used to all but the most extreme or obnoxious stimuli because our senses are built to tell us about change. The senses all operate in much the same way, but each extracts different information and sends it to its own specialized processing region in...

Would you say you "had sex" if...?

CONTEXT The current public debate regarding whether oral sex constitutes having "had sex" or sexual relations has reflected a lack of empirical data on how Americans as a population define these terms. OBJECTIVE To determine which interactions individuals would consider as having "had sex." METHODS A question was included in a survey conducted in 1991 that explored sexual behaviors and atti...

You only notice them if you understand them: Geriatric syndromes.

Ageing is acknowledged to result from a lifelong accumulation of molecular and cellular damage, caused by many mechanisms that are regulated by a complex maintenance and repair network. Multimorbidity and polypharmacy are the results of our good standard of care for ageing persons as present in many Western societies. Many healthcare expenses and efforts are currently devoted to providing healt...

Commentary: Would your health be better if you lived in England or in the USA?

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