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Does a society require an orderly, rule-based succession plan to survive a leadership crisis? A new study demonstrates that tropical paper wasp (Polistes canadensis) colonies survive violent, chaotic power struggles thanks to a distinct group of workers known as “compensators”.​ 

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) directly pairs with and enhances the human motor system during active movement.​ 

Can laughter and play do their most brilliant work at a molecular level to accelerate human learning? A new developmental study reveals that laughter is a complex biological phenomenon that fundamentally rewires early brain architecture.​ 

A new study upends decades of motivational dogma by proving that the brain does not naturally avoid effort, but rather avoids wasted effort.​ 

A new study upends decades of motivational dogma by proving that the brain does not naturally avoid effort, but rather avoids wasted effort.​  Read more at Cerebratech ​ 

A new study provides the first direct neural evidence of “compositional generalization,” the cognitive capacity to recombine familiar elements into novel ideas.​ 

A new study upends decades of neuroscientific dogma by proving that sodium concentrations vary drastically within individual astrocytes and across their sub-cellular processes.​ 

Serotonin is a key driver of cognitive flexibility by actively reducing “belief stickiness”, the tendency to cling to outdated assumptions despite contradicting real-world evidence.​ 

Serotonin is a key driver of cognitive flexibility by actively reducing “belief stickiness”, the tendency to cling to outdated assumptions despite contradicting real-world evidence.​  Read more at Cerebratech ​ 

A single dose of psilocybin provides up to a month of nerve pain relief and fundamentally supercharges the efficacy of traditional painkillers.​