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Dream and daydream: differences and similarities

Did you know that daydreams reflect events from the previous two days and “night” dreams resemble a fictional plot?

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Does your dog have social skills?

A study suggests that viewing the owner’s face works as a positive social reinforcement for dogs. Learn more about this and other surprising results about “man’s best friend”.

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Are lucid dreams a mixture of sleep and wakefulness?

Benjamin Baird, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 334/18 - Inducing lucid dreams with optimized sensory cues, concluded that the lucid dreams are more that a mixture of sleep and wakefulness, with a EEG patter characteristic.

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Could mindfulness meditation benefit memory?

Aviva Berkovich-Ohana, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 191/20 – Understanding the brain mechanisms of death-denial for fostering mindfulness-based existential resilience, concluded that the practice of mindfulness mediattion it is benefic to delcarative memory performance.

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Can school behavior problems be predicted by oxytocin concentrations?

In the scope of project 158/12 – Neuroendocrine underpinnings of social bonds to parents and peers in preschool children. Oxytocin and cortisol on adopted children and non-adopted controls, Nuno Torres et al published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, the paper Salivary oxytocin after play with parents predicts behavioural problems in preschool children

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