鈥淲hen a man is tired of London, he is tired of life,鈥 observed the writer Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. In fact, research published today suggests such a man may be merely living in the wrong postcode. A study of 56,000 Londoners found that a person鈥檚 life satisfaction depends, at least in part, on whether their personality suits the place where they live.
Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using a new algorithm, researchers have calculated the average number of Likes artificial intelligence (AI) needs to draw personality inferences about you as accurately as your partner or parents.
Misfiring of the brain鈥檚 control system might underpin compulsions in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), according to researchers at the 探花直播 of Cambridge, writing in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Our brains are plastic. They continually remould neural connections as we learn, experience and adapt. Now researchers are asking if new understanding of these processes can help us train our brains.
Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism.
探花直播largest ever psychological study of sex differences in adults with autism has found that both males and females with autism on average show an extreme of the typical male mind, where systemising (the drive to look for underlying rules in a system) is stronger than empathising (the ability to recognize the thoughts and feelings of others and to respond to these with appropriate emotions).
Children who later develop autism are exposed to elevated levels of steroid hormones (for example testosterone, progesterone and cortisol) in the womb, according to scientists from the 探花直播 of Cambridge and the Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. 探花直播finding may help explain why autism is more common in males than females. However, the researchers caution it should not be used to screen for the condition.
New research reveals that brain damage affecting the insula 鈥 an area with a key role in emotions 鈥 disrupts errors of thinking linked to gambling addiction.
Homeless people are ten times more likely to be problem gamblers than the UK population as a whole, researchers at Cambridge have found.
New research shows that male jays are able to disengage from their own current desires to feed their female partner food that she wants.
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