Neuroscience

Neuroscience: Patience ‘determined by brain’s SEROTONIN levels’

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Patience is determined by the levels of the hormone serotonin, dictating whether you can calmly anticipate a reward or crave instant gratification, a study has found. Researchers from Japan found that artificially triggering the release of the hormone in mice made the rodents more patient when waiting for food in lab experiments. Furthermore, the team … Read more

Neuroscience: Patience determined by levels of SEROTONIN in the brain, study finds 

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Patience is determined by the levels of the hormone serotonin, dictating whether you can calmly anticipate a reward or crave instant gratification, a study has found. Researchers from Japan found that artificially triggering the release of the hormone in mice made the rodents more patient when waiting for food in lab experiments. Furthermore, the team … Read more

Neuroscience: Your brain could be ‘reprogrammed’ to prefer fruit instead of chocolate

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Healthy food options could be made appealing by zapping neurons to ‘reprogram’ your brain into preferring, for example, fruit over chocolate, a study has suggested.  When faced with any choice, each alternative causes a different set of nerve cells to fire in your brain — and the more appealing a given option, the faster this … Read more