If you want to avoid that mid-afternoon, exhausted, ‘MUST HAVE CHOCOLATE’ slump and feel good all day in general, your best bet is to load up your plate first thing. Researchers from the University of Missouri have found that breakfast is the key to feeling good throughout the day. And just porridge, toast or cereal…

Whether we're watching a Shakespearean tragedy or a seasonal morality tale, going to the theatre makes us more empathetic. At least, that’s according to a new study from the University of Arkansas. As Psych Central reports, researchers studied the impact on school students of going to see live productions of Hamlet and A Christmas Carol.…

A new study shows that changing how you walk can change how you feel. We all know that being in a good mood puts a spring in your step, but researchers wanted to find out if the opposite was true, too. Scientists from Queen’s University in Canada (working in association with the Canadian Institute for…

Scientists have found that looking at EEG brain scans in a new way shows signs of consciousness in some patients assumed to be in a vegetative state. As Wired reports, a new study from the University of Cambridge used EEG electrodes to measure resting brain activity in 32 severely brain-injured patients, which they compared to…

Engineers have developed a surgical robot that can perform brain surgery by entering through the cheek, allowing for a much quicker recovery. It’s designed to help patients with severe epilepsy, for which the traditional treatment includes surgery to the part of the brain responsible for seizures, the hippocampus. Because this is located at the base…