Choosing the usual or taking a chance?

We always choose the same route back home, but one day, alerted about traffic restrictions, we decide to risk an alternative route. What drives us to make this decision?

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?

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”.

Project supported by the BIAL Foundation published in Scientific Reports

The research team of the project Aware Mind-Brain: Bridging insights on the mechanisms and neural substrates of human awareness and meditation, coordinated by Antonino Raffone, published in Scientific Reports a paper about meditation: Common and distinct lateralised patterns of neural coupling during focused attention, open monitoring and loving kindness meditation

Results of a project funded by the BIAL foundation presented in Neuron

The article Postingestive Modulation of Food Seeking Depends on Vagus-Mediated Dopamine Neuron Activity has been published in the journal Neuron. This paper presents some of the main findings from project 176/10 - Dopaminergic regulation of dietary learning in humans and rodents, supported by the BIAL Foundation and led by Albino Oliveira-Maia.

Researchers supported by the BIAL foundation published in The Journal of Headache and Pain

Isabel Pavão Martins et al. published in the scope of the research project 63/10 - Mindful ageing. Avoiding age related cognitive decline, supported by the BIAL Foundation, the paper Cognitive aging in migraine sufferers is associated with more subjective complaints but similar age-related decline: a 5-year longitudinal study in The Journal of Headache and Pain.