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”.

Does transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulate behavior?

Ruben Azevedo, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 88/16 – The interoceptive self: Transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation as a new tool to investigate heart-brain interactions demonstrated that the transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve could be an effective neuromodulatory technique to modulate cognitive processes and pupil size. The paper “Event-related transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation modulates behaviour” featuring these results was published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology

Luís Portela featured in the Journal of Scientific Exploration

Interview with Luís Portela regarding the launch of his book “The Science of Spirit” in the United States and the scarce international funding attributed to research in the area of parapsychology, considered a “frontier science”.

How brain circuits that support decision-making are altered by aging?

João Marques-Teixeira, supported by the BIAL Foundation in the scope of project 249/16 – Healthy aging and economic decision-making: Neuropsychophysiological examination of the affect-integration-motivation framework of decision-making in aging brain, demonstrated, through EEG, that with aging, there seems to be a change in affective processes and a preservation of integration and motivation processes.