With the conference "The Neurobiology of Human Aggression" Adolf Tobeña, Professor of Medical Psychology and Psychiatry at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), opened the first National Congress on Conduct in the monastery of Sant Benet in Bages, Spain. The subject of his conference, moreover, was as defiant as it was provocative. Humans, Tobeña argued, are not morally superior to animals, and nor can we presume to be morally superior or more cultured. According to the expert, in psychology, everything parts for a common unit, the brain, and from a determinate chemical base.

Jordi Montaner | 20 may 2010

Trans-sexuality is a disorder, 'light' autism doesn't exist and the addiction to the Internet is entirely true (with reservations). This is the picture drawn by the new reference manual for diagnosing mental disorders. The draft of the bible of psychiatry has just been published and may be modified until 2013. But it is already many who have cried out about the ideological and commercial biases present in these definitions.

Michele Catanzaro | 1 March 2010

Music changes people, and quite literally: the musicians' skills correspond to specific features of brain activity. But this is not a surprise, neuroscientists have long known of any specialized task leaving its more or less subtle signature in the brain. More striking is a new American finding: the same brain areas involved in music perception and language are involved in tasks such as reading.

Mónica Salomone | San Diego | 25 February 2010

That music does not usually suffer from cultural differences and barriers so common in the world we live in, is a proven fact, it seems to be the only universal language.

25 February 2010

Cristina Jiménez | London