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A multidisciplinary strategy is used to explore brain functions at Ruhr University.
A Bochum research team has developed a German version of the "Stress Overload Scale". The translation improves the international comparability of results in stress research.
Animal consciousness should not be thought of as a light switch, which can be on or off, Bochum philosophers say. They advocate a different approach.
Researchers have recreated the brain functions of mice and humans using computers. Artificial intelligences could learn from this.
A new study shows how effective it is to exercise body and mind.
Compared to the energy efficiency of avian brains, mammals are no match.
The way aggressive behaviour develops is still poorly understood. Researchers have now discovered a crucial piece of the jigsaw.
People who practice intensive meditation report memories of states in which their sense of self dissolves. Is this at all possible?
Deceiving yourself is normal and can be useful in the short term. But not in the long term.
A new theory of consciousness provides experimental access to the study of this phenomenon. Not just in humans.
Birds and humans have very different networks of neurons in their brains. Nevertheless, their working memory is limited by similar mechanisms.
When the brain stores memories of objects, it creates a characteristic pattern of activity for each of them. Stress changes such memory traces.
When people think back on their own wedding, they tend to turn it into something even more beautiful than it really was.
The more natural the position of an arm prosthesis, the more precise the control – this is the result of a Bochum study on brain-computer interfaces in the therapy of severely paralysed patients.
A German-Canadian research team is calling for a more comprehensive approach.
Researchers regard the overall distribution of receptors in the brain – the receptome – as a new approach for computer models that reproduce the function of the brain, and for diagnostics and therapy of mental disorders.
Trauma patients experience intrusive and distressing memories of their traumatic event. A team from Bochum is examining new ways to strengthen the effects of psychotherapy.
Stress can be triggered and investigated in different ways. But do they also lead to the same result?
Kissing, cuddling, chatting – thanks to modern research equipment, researchers have been able to record the brain activity of couples in emotional situations at home.
To unmask their impairments, researchers had to come up with a unique experimental design.
No one can remember the first years of their life. A study suggests possible reasons.
