Food provides us with vitamins, protein and carbohydrates, but also heavy metals, dioxins and pesticides. Growing evidence indicates that some of these compounds may play a role in the generation of “modern” neurological diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.

PATRICIA MORÉN | OCTOBER 20TH, 2010

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

"I don't like Mondays (*). I only did it to cheer up my day", said Brenda Ann Spencer on the 29th of January 1979. Hours earlier, from a window of her house, she had wielded the rifle that her father had given her at Christmas, killed two people and wounded nine in an elementary school in San Diego (California). She was 16 and totally surprised her father.

Ànnia Monreal | 8 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